New reports have surfaced in the aftermath of the Biden administration regarding how often important documents, including pardons issued near the end of the term, were endorsed mechanically.

The use of a so-called autopen to sign presidential paperwork is not uncommon in itself, but former administrations had generally limited it to lower-priority signatures.

President Donald Trump reacted to the revelation by issuing a statement calling for pardons signed with an autopen to be nullified.

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt on Wednesday expounded on his statement, as Breitbart reported:

Leavitt said Trump “was begging the question that I think a lot of journalists in this room should be asking about whether or not the former president of the United States — who I think we can all finally agree — was cognitively impaired.”

“I know it took people some time to finally admit that, but we all know that to be true, as evidenced by his disastrous debate performance against President Trump during the campaign,” she continued. “I digress on that, but the president was raising the point that did the president [Biden] even know about these pardons? Was his legal signature used without his consent or knowledge?”

Citing the New York Post, she said that “there are Biden officials from the previous White House who raised those questions and wondered if the President was even consulted about his legally binding signature being signed onto documents.”

Trump’s announcement was met with resistance from political rivals:

Adam Kinzinger appears to panic in his response video to President Trump null & voiding his presidential pardon. In an extremely emotional reaction, full of projection, he claims President Trump is “obsessed” with him:

“This dude knows this is the thing that embarrasses… pic.twitter.com/wpgF79W29D

— DeVory Darkins (@devorydarkins) March 17, 2025

Others, however, were enthusiastically supportive of the president’s efforts to expose the previous administration’s behavior:

Every pardon, every document signed with the auto pen should be declared null and void.
The J6 committee pardons are at the top of my list. pic.twitter.com/TrPuDA3nPU

— Dixie s America & Trump (@DixiDarlen) March 17, 2025

According to President Trump, all of Joe Biden’s pardon’s are null and void. pic.twitter.com/ODcKHsGG4f

— Florida Pureblood (@Floridared1776) March 17, 2025

The Hill was among the many news outlets providing coverage of Trump’s initial statement earlier this week:

Just before the inauguration in January, Biden pardoned several of Trump’s political enemies preemptively, including the lawmakers who sat on the House panel that investigated the Jan. 6, 2021, rioting at the U.S. Capitol, Biden’s family, Anthony Fauci and Gen. Mark Milley.

There was much discussion about whether Biden would use the executive action to protect people that could be prosecuted by the incoming Trump administration.

Trump argued Monday in his post that Biden did not sign the papers and “did not know anything about them!”

While courts have largely left the pardoning power up to the president, Trump said those on the House committee should expect to be investigated “at the highest level.”

Here’s a clip of Leavitt’s recent remarks:

.@PressSec on Biden’s autopen pre-emptive pardons: “Did the President even know about these pardons? Was his legal signature used without his consent or knowledge?… I think it’s a question that everybody in this room should be looking into.” pic.twitter.com/sH5XLhng9I

— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) March 17, 2025

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