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President Donald Trump announced that he's officially terminated all pardons made by former President Joe Biden using autopen during the latter's final days in office in a post shared on Truth Social Friday (November 28).
"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," Trump wrote. "The Autopen is not allowed to be used if approval is not specifically given by the President of the United States. The Radical Left Lunatics circling Biden around the beautiful Resolute Desk in the Oval Office took the Presidency away from him. I am hereby cancelling all Executive Orders, 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. Thank you for your attention to this matter!"
Trump has publicly claimed that because the pardons were signed by autopen, Biden didn't know anything about them. A bombshell report released by the New York Post last month claimed that Biden's executive actions "cannot all be deemed his own" as his advisers "went to great lengths to prop" him up during the end of his administration.
The House Oversight Committee staff document, which was based on dozens of interviews with former Biden aides, accuses the former president's "inner circle" of having taken steps to "meticulously stage-manage" his public appearances, lighten his workload in office and prohibit lawmakers from speaking to him.
Biden had previously confirmed to the New York Times in July that he used autopen to sign 25 pardon and communication warrants during the final two months of his administration, though his son's pardon was one of the few signed by hand during that span.