In a recent appearance, President Donald Trump criticized President Joe Biden for using an autopen, which could have been controlled by anyone, to conduct the nation’s business. Building on these remarks, he criticized Biden’s mental competence and made several humorous jokes about the Democrat.
For context, Biden’s late-term pardons have drawn criticism for several reasons. First, Biden used a machine, known as an autopen, to sign the documents, creating questions about the legitimacy of these signatures. Likewise, most executives have issued pardons for specific crimes. In contrast, Biden granted blanket preemptive pardons to his son, as well as to other officials.
In any case, Trump slammed his predecessor’s use of the controversial tool to run the nation. He declared, “We would have lost this election. Our country was finished. I think it was. We were run by incompetent people. We were run by an auto pen, and nobody knows who used it. I think it’s one of the biggest scandals in the history of our country.”
Mocking the clearly senile Joe Biden, He added, “Nobody has any idea who used it, including Biden. He doesn’t know. Saw that interview yesterday, he knew nothing….we’re against an evil group of people, and they’re very smart, very smart. He’s not, but they are. They took over the they took over the Oval Office. We can never let a thing like that happen again.”
As we reported, David Sacks, Trump’s AI czar, hypothesized that Senator Elizabeth Warren was the person who controlled the autopen used by former President Biden to sign numerous executive orders and controversial pardons in the closing months of his presidency. Sacks revealed, “Elizabeth Warren controlled the Autopen during that administration. [She has a] pathological hatred of the crypto community [and wanted to] drive this community offshore.”
Building on these remarks, President Trump joked that Biden’s mental state was so poor that he may have had no idea what his signature was being used to authorize. He said, “Crooked Joe Biden got us into a real mess with Russia and everything else he did, frankly. But he didn’t know about it, and he, generally speaking, signed it with Autopen, so how would he know that autopen is a big deal?”
Contrasting his leadership to that of Biden, Trump stated, “When my people come up [to have me sign an executive order], you don’t use autopen. Number one – it’s disrespectful to the office. Number two – maybe it’s not even valid because who’s getting him to sign? He had no idea what the hell he was doing.”
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Slamming these documents, the president contested, “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.”
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Explaining his argument, Trump added, “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.”
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