November 28, 2025President Donald Trump has announced that all orders signed by former President Joe Biden via autopen are "null and void," and that if Biden tried to argue that he was involved, he would be charged with perjury.The president posted on his social media platform Truth Social on Friday: "Any document signed by Sleepy Joe Biden with the Autopen, which was approximately 92% of them, is hereby terminated, and of no further force or effect. The Autopen is not allowed to be used if approval is not specifically given by the President of the United States. The Radical Left Lunatics circling Biden around the beautiful Resolute Desk in the Oval Office took the Presidency away from him. I am hereby cancelling all Executive Orders, and anything else that was not directly signed by Crooked Joe Biden, because the people who operated the Autopen did so illegally. Joe Biden was not involved in the Autopen process and, if he says he was, he will be brought up on charges of perjury. Thank you for your attention to this matter!"
I think Trump's use of the autopen should be looked into because of "Trump Derangement Syndrome" (TDS)... it is starting to mean that he sees and hears things that are not there.
The president seemed to be arguing that the autopen was used by his staff without the input of Biden. It's not clear who will validate the orders or under what legal authority he will cancel Biden's orders.Using the autopen is legal, according to an investigation in 2005 by the Justice Department under former President George W. Bush, which found that "the President need not personally perform the physical act of affixing his signature to a bill to sign it within the meaning of Article I, Section 7."
This is just typical Trump distraction, and it is recycled from this spring.
AP NewsBy DARLENE SUPERVILLEMarch 17, 2025President Donald Trump claimed Monday that pardons recently issued by Joe Biden to lawmakers and staff on the congressional committee that investigated the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot have no force because, Trump says, the-then president signed them with an autopen instead of by his own hand.“In other words, Joe Biden did not sign them but, more importantly, he did not know anything about them!” Trump wrote on his social media site. Trump didn’t offer any evidence to support his claims. Nor did the White House.Trump asserted in his all-caps post that the pardons are void and have no effect in his estimation. But presidents have broad authority to pardon or commute the sentences of whomever they please, the Constitution doesn’t specify that pardons must be in writing and autopen signatures have been used before for substantive actions by presidents.
Oh, look over there... not here! And of course, his cult followers believe him and not the facts.
And of course, the cult media got into line behind Trump with the lies!
The Oversight Project at the conservative Heritage Foundation think tank recently said its analysis of thousands of pages of documents bearing Biden’s signature found that most were by autopen, including pardons. Conservative media have amplified the claims, which have been picked up by Trump. He has commented for several days running about Biden’s autopen use.Mike Howell, the project’s executive director, said in an interview that his team is scrutinizing Biden’s pardons because that power lies only with the president under the Constitution and can’t be delegated to another person or a machine. Howell said some of Biden’s pardon papers also specify they were signed in Washington on days when he was elsewhere.
That is one of those "Yeah, so? all the modern presidents have done that!
There is no law governing a president’s use of an autopen.A 2005 opinion from the Office of Legal Counsel at the Justice Department said an autopen can be used to sign legislation. Barack Obama became the first president to do so in May 2011 when he signed an extension of the Patriot Act. Obama was in France on official business and, with time running out before the law expired, he authorized use of the autopen to sign it into law.Much earlier guidance on pardons was sent in 1929 from the solicitor general — the attorney who argues for the United States before the Supreme Court — to the attorney general. It says “neither the Constitution nor any statute prescribes the method by which executive clemency shall be exercised or evidenced.”
So "Where's the beef?"
The UPI articles ends with...
Biden has denied that any decisions were made without him during his presidency."I made the decisions during my presidency," Biden said in a statement. "I made the decisions about the pardons, executive orders, legislation and proclamations. Any suggestion that I didn't is ridiculous and false."
Everyone knows that. What is Trump harping on this for? What is he trying to hide?
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