Trump accused of using autopen for latest pardons despite mocking Biden for doing it
It has been during a number of occasions that President Donald Trump accused his predecessor Joe Biden of plenty of things, including that he had been hiding his actual health from the public during his presidency. When Biden announced his battle with prostate cancer, Trump claimed Biden was well-aware of the diagnosis during his presidency.
In a memorandum on Wednesday, Trump instructed the White House counsel, in coordination with Attorney General Pam Bondi and other officials, to investigate whether “certain individuals conspired to deceive the public about Biden’s mental state and unconstitutionally exercise the authorities and responsibilities of the President.”
A top oncologist who used to work with Joe Biden also believed the former president probably had the cancer for “a decade.”
Dr Ezekiel Emanuel, who took part in crafting the the Obama-era Affordable Care Act, shared on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” that Biden likely had cancer while serving as a president.
On a separate occasion, Trump made a shocking decision to launch an investigation concerning former POTUS Joe Biden regarding masking his “cognitive decline” and deceiving the public about his actual mental state.
Trump believes Biden did that by letting his aides use an autopen—a device that reproduces signatures used by presidents, including Trump, for decades—to authorize executive actions.
BBC reported that Trump said in a statement how the American public had been “purposefully shielded from discovering who wielded the executive power” while Biden’s signature was used to endorse documents Trump described as leading to “radical policy shifts.”
“This conspiracy marks one of the most dangerous and concerning scandals in American history,” Trump concluded.
The investigation discovered that “Senior White House officials did not know who operated the autopen and its use was not sufficiently controlled or documented to prevent abuse.
“The Committee deems void all executive actions signed by the autopen without proper, corresponding, contemporaneous, written approval traceable to the president’s own consent,” the House Oversight Committee found.
Biden responded to the accusations, saying they were “ridiculous and false.”
Recently, however, it appeared that Trump did exactly what he accused Biden for, and used autopen when signing pardons on November 7, 2025.
Allegedly, Trump could have used autopens for his pardons granted to former New York Mets player Darryl Strawberry, former Tennessee House speaker Glen Casada, and former New York police sergeant Michael McMahon, among others.
According to The Guardian, experts told the AP that several pardons initially posted online carried identical signatures, which were later quietly corrected by the Justice Department.
Chad Gilmartin, a Justice Department spokesperson, told the Associated Press that the agency called it a “technical error,” adding that the “website was updated after a technical error where one of the signatures President Trump personally signed was mistakenly uploaded multiple times due to staffing issues caused by the Democrat shutdown.”
“There is no story here other than the fact that President Trump signed seven pardons by hand and [the Department of Justice] posted those same seven pardons with seven unique signatures to our website,” Gilmartin added.
White House spokesperson Abigail Jackson wrote in an email that Trump “signed each one of these pardons by hand as he does with all pardons”.
“The media should spend their time investigating Joe Biden’s countless autopenned pardons, not covering a non-story,” she wrote.
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