“I didn’t sign it!” Trump plays dumb and lies, says he didn’t invoke Alien Enemies Act, “other people handled it”. Then Erin Burnett busts him by holding up a copy of the order with his signature on it. Maybe he uses an autopen. pic.twitter.com/FHvJhJ06kB
— Mike Sington (@MikeSington) March 22, 2025
When are people going to ask the question? I mean, Joe Biden stumbled over his words in the natural way of aging in many 80 year olds. Trump’s issues are different. He’s delusional. Someone should look into it….
By the way, if he says that he didn’t sign it perhaps it was done without his knowledge by autopen?
Legal experts say there is nothing to President Donald Trump’s claims that several of former President Joe Biden’s pardons are “VOID” because they were signed via autopen.
White House lawyers during the George W. Bush administration said the use of an autopen is perfectly legal, and constitutional scholars say that nothing in the Constitution even requires pardons to be signed anyway. And, they note, pardons cannot simply be overturned by a subsequent president.
Trump is correct that pardons would be invalid if, in fact, as he has claimed, any pardons were signed by a staffer without Biden’s knowledge or consent. But Trump has offered no evidence of that.
Trump has repeatedly invoked the autopen issue in the last several days. As NPR explains, autopen is “a generic name for a machine that duplicates signatures using real ink, making it easy for public figures to autograph everything from correspondence to merchandise in bulk. They are printer-sized machines with an arm that can hold a standard pen or pencil, and use it to replicate the programmed signature on a piece of paper below.” Trump acknowledged that he himself uses an autopen, but “only for very unimportant papers.”
In a post to Truth Social on March 17, Trump claimed that some pardons issued by Biden were “hereby declared VOID, VACANT, AND OF NO FURTHER FORCE OR EFFECT, because of the fact that they were done by Autopen.”
As I said, delusional.