US EditionTrump Declares Documents Signed by ‘Autopen’ Under Biden Are Terminated; Threatens Ex-President with ‘Perjury’ Charges
Trump claims 92% of Biden's executive orders were autopen-signed and cancels them, threatening perjury charges if Biden denies involvement.
- On Friday, President Donald Trump posted on Truth Social that any document signed by former President Joe Biden with the autopen, about 92%, is terminated and void.
- Amid GOP concerns about Biden's age, House Republicans argued his alleged cognitive decline led aides to rely on the autopen, prompting investigations by the House Oversight Committee and Chairman James Comer .
- The Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel found autopen use can be lawful, noting historical autopen usage and that courts have not invalidated such signatures, while former President Barack Obama and President Donald Trump also used autopens.
- Trump also threatened to charge Biden with perjury if he claims autopen authorization, and the move could void pardons and executive actions, prompting immediate legal fights involving federal agencies.
- The declaration fits a broader pattern as legal experts and commentators dismissed it as constitutionally dubious, predicting court battles that would almost certainly reach the Supreme Court.
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US President Donald Trump announced on his social network Truth Social on Friday that he had revoked all laws and pardons that his predecessor Joe Biden allegedly signed with a fountain pen.
On Friday, Donald Trump announced that he was revoking the decrees and documents signed by his predecessor Democrat, Joe Biden, using a machine to sign, a measure whose legal effects are still uncertain. On his Truth Social platform, the Republican President wrote: "Any document signed by Joe Endormi using the machine to sign, or about 92% of them, is hereby cancelled and no longer has any force or effect."The legal consequences of this announce…
U.S. President Trump announced that he would revoke most of the decrees of his predecessor Biden. On the grounds that almost all of them had been signed with a mechanical signature aid, the decrees that were in concrete terms remained open at first.
BREAKING: Trump to Void All Official Documents Signed with Biden’s Autopen, Threatens Perjury Charges
by Frank Bergman, Slay News: President Donald Trump has just declared that he is nullifying every executive action and official document that he says was authorized through the Biden administration’s autopen. The move targets all documents not signed by former President Joe Biden’s own signature. In a Friday Truth Social post, Trump said Biden relied on […]
A politically explosive decision, with a very uncertain legal basis, which revives the Republican President's attacks on his predecessor Democrat.
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