Newsman: President Donald Trump claimed that former President Joe Biden’s preemptive pardons of members of the Jan. 6 Select Committee committee and others were “void, vacant, and of no future force of effect.”
President Trump, in a post to his Truth Social network, went on to say that members of that House committee are “subject to investigation at the highest level” and baselessly accused them of being responsible for their own pardons, without Biden’s knowledge.
Making his claim about the pardons, Trump cited alleged use of an autopen during Biden’s administration. “In other words, Joe Biden did not sign them but, more importantly, he did not know anything about them!” Trump claimed in his post on social media.
Autopen is a machine used to replicate signatures and has long been used by public figures, including presidents, to sign notes and letters. The Autopen Company, which makes the devices, said the machine is “the oldest, most commonly used signing machine” and that it has been used for “more than 60 years.”
It is not clear whether Biden used an autopen to sign the documents in question.
