President Donald Trump has declared a swathe of Joe Biden’s presidential pardons “void,” because they were signed using autopen.
Posting on his social-media site Truth Social, President Trump said Biden’s 11th-hour pardons for members of Congress who investigated the events of 6 January 2021 are “void, vacant and of no further effect.”
“The ‘Pardons’ that Sleepy Joe Biden gave to the Unselect Committee of Political Thugs, and many others, are hereby declared VOID, VACANT, AND OF NO FURTHER FORCE OR EFFECT, because of the fact that they were done by Autopen,” the President wrote.
“In other words, Joe Biden did not sign them but, more importantly, he did not know anything about them! The necessary Pardoning Documents were not explained to, or approved by, Biden. He knew nothing about them, and the people that did may have committed a crime. Therefore, those on the Unselect Committee, who destroyed and deleted ALL evidence obtained during their two year Witch Hunt of me, and many other innocent people, should fully understand that they are subject to investigation at the highest level. The fact is, they were probably responsible for the Documents that were signed on their behalf without the knowledge or consent of the Worst President in the History of our Country, Crooked Joe Biden!”
At present, the implications of the President’s declaration are unclear.
In recent weeks there has been close scrutiny of the use of autopen signatures during Joe Biden’s presidency.
There are significant doubts about whether Biden was cognisant of the nature of the documents he was signing or whether he was even present and consulted.
Commentators, including the Heritage Foundation’s Oversight Project, have suggested that “whoever controlled the autopen controlled the presidency.”
At the beginning of March, Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey asked the DoJ to investigate the “legality of presidential actions in light of President Biden’s mental decline.”
“I write to request that you conduct a full investigation into President Biden’s mental capacity in his final days in office,” Bailey wrote in a letter to US Inspector General Michael Horowitz.
“By now, Biden’s mental decline is famous. Under the 25th Amendment, his inability to make decisions should have meant a succession of power. Instead, it appears staffers and officers in the Biden administration may have exploited Biden’s incapacity so they could issue orders without an accountable President of sound mind approving them.”
Bailey continued: “Who has been running the country for the last few years? I fear that Mr. Biden, while he held the office of President, did so in name only and was a mere puppet for far-left, unelected staffers. The people deserve to know the truth.
“I call on you to investigate whether it was Biden or others who took executive actions. If it was not Biden, then the people should know that whatever actions he took were void.”