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Trump Voids Biden Autopen Documents, Threatens Perjury

Is this a legitimate concern about unauthorized signatures or political theater, given Trump's own use of an autopen?
Trump Voids Biden Autopen Documents, Threatens Perjury
Above: Donald Trump signs executive orders in the Oval Office of the White House on April 23, 2025. Image credit: Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images

The Spin

Democratic narrative

Claiming Biden's executive orders are invalid because of autopen use is wild — the autopen has been used for decades by Democrats and Republicans alike. Trump himself used it extensively during his first term. This isn't law — it's performative political theater from a man watching everything collapse around him.

Republican narrative

Biden's aides took advantage of his cognitive decline and ran pardons through the autopen without his approval, making those documents illegal. The Oversight Project discovered multiple autopen signatures used throughout Biden's presidency, including pardons signed while Biden golfed in St. Croix. Trump is right to terminate these illegally executed documents.

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