Biden’s presidency has been rocked by claims that his autopen signature was mechanically stamped on nearly every official document he signed in office
DONALD Trump has said he is overturning all the documents and executive orders signed by Joe Biden with an autopen.
Trump also threatened to charge the former president with perjury after alleging his staffers were using the tool to sign decisions on his behalf.
It comes just weeks after Republican lawmakers cast doubt on all of Biden’s actions in office, saying all the executive orders signed via Biden’s autopen are “void”.
Trump today wrote on Truth Social: “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 president also said that he has now overturned all the executive orders under the Biden administration 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,” Trump added.
Biden’s presidency has been rocked by claims that his autopen signature was mechanically stamped on nearly every official document he signed in office.
Questions swirl over whether Biden’s use of the device was mere convenience — or a sign that he was a figurehead president whose staffers wielded real power.
Last month, the GOP-controlled House Oversight Committee unveiled their long-promised report on Biden’s use of the autopen during his presidency.
The report – based on more than a dozen interviews with Biden aides – shows that – delivered a blistering critique of his time in office and made sweeping accusations about the workings of his White House.
It claimed that Biden may not have known what was being signed in his name as president amid his alleged cognitive decline.
It also claimed that the former president’s mental state declined to a degree that allowed his aides to enact policies without his knowledge.
The investigation alleged the committee had found “a cover-up of the president’s cognitive decline” and “no record demonstrating President Biden himself made all of the executive decisions that were attributed to him”.
Biden has publicly disputed that, saying he made all decisions as president and calling Republicans who have suggested otherwise “liars”.
He has strenuously denied that he was unaware of his administration’s actions, calling such claims ridiculous and false.
“The inner-most circle, or cocoon, of the White House senior staff organised one of the largest scandals in American history, hiding a cognitively failing president and refusing any means of confirmation of such demise,” the Republican report said.
While the report claims that record-keeping policies in the Biden White House were so lax that the chain of custody for a given decision is difficult or impossible to establish, Republicans did not offer any concrete instances of the chain of command being violated or a policy being enacted without Biden’s knowledge.
Previously, another report claimed that Biden’s name was signed using an autopen on nearly every executive order and official document during his four-year tenure.
The findings prompted Missouri’s Republican Attorney General Andrew Bailey to demand a Justice Department investigation, warning that Biden’s cognitive decline may have allowed unelected staff to push through radical policies without his knowledge.
“If true, these executive orders, pardons, and all other actions are unconstitutional and legally void,” Bailey declared.
One of the autopen-signed orders included Biden’s August 2022 directive safeguarding abortion access in emergencies, while another was a December 2024 order closing federal offices to honour late ex-US President Jimmy Carter.
The Oversight Project said it gathered “every document we could find with Biden’s signature over the course of his presidency” and found that all but one — his July 2024 letter dropping out of the presidential race — used the identical autopen signature.
Source : https://www.the-sun.com/news/15565820/trump-terminates-biden-executive-orders/