President Donald Trump announced On Friday, he announced he was rescinding executive orders signed by President Joe Biden’s autopen.
Like many presidents, including Trump, Biden used an autopen to sign certain official documents. Republicans claim the autopen was used by those around Biden to get around a mentally declining president.
“Every document signed by Sleepy Joe Biden using the Autopen, which was approximately 92% of them, is hereby terminated and of no further force or effect,” he wrote on Truth Social. “I hereby cancel all Executive Orders, and anything else not signed directly by Crooked Joe Biden, because the people who operated the Autopen did so illegally.”
Biden’s team did not immediately respond to a request for comment, but the former president did has rejected these claims in the past, saying in June: “Let me be clear: I made the decisions during my presidency.”
“I made the decisions on the pardons, executive orders, legislation and proclamations,” he said at the time. “Any suggestion I haven’t made is ridiculous and false.”
There is no public record of how many documents were signed by autopen during Biden’s presidency. President Barack Obama was the first president to use an autopen and sign a pardon while on vacation. Biden is known to have used it while traveling as well: CNN reports this in 2024, Biden autopen signed a funding extension for federal aviation programs, which one official said was used to avoid a funding loss while the president was on the West Coast.
Last month, Republicans in the House of Representatives said they considered executive actions signed by Biden’s autopen “without proper, corresponding, contemporaneous, written approval traceable to the President’s own consent” to be null and void and urged the Justice Department to investigate the matter.
“Joe Biden was not involved in the Autopen trial and if he says he was, he will be charged with perjury,” Trump continued in his Friday Truth Social post.
Perjury is the crime of lying under oath; Biden has not publicly testified under oath about the autopen. The former president has previously defended his use of the autopen in an interview in the New York Times.
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