President Donald Trump says he's terminating all orders Biden signed with autopen

[LetMyPeopleVote]

Source: ABC7

WASHINGTON, DC -- President Donald Trump said on Friday that any document signed by former President Joe Biden using an autopen "is hereby terminated."

"I am hereby cancelling all Executive Orders, and anything else that was not directly signed by Crooked Joe Biden," Trump posted on his social media platform.

It is unclear which orders Trump is referencing and how he is making those determinations. ABC News has reached out to the White House for more information.

Trump claimed that the people who "operated the Autopen did so illegally." But the Justice Department's legal counsel states that autopens are lawful for signing bills into law.

The president has repeatedly fixated on Biden's use of the autopen. In June, Trump claimed Biden aides illegally used the autopen to carry out "radical" policies and ordered the Justice Department and White House to investigate Biden's mental state when he was in office. At the time, Biden issued a statement to ABC News calling the probe "nothing more than a mere distraction."

"Let me be clear: I made the decisions during my presidency. I made the decisions about the pardons, executive orders, legislation, and proclamations. Any suggestion that I didn't is ridiculous and false," Biden said in the June statement.

Read more: https://abc7.com/post/president-donald-trump-says-hes-terminating-orders-joe-biden-signed-autopen/18223066/

[Chasstev365]

1. Two Words Donald: Get Help!

[Harker]

2. I would choose two different words.

[The Madcap]

5. Is the second one "off?"

[Harker]

6. Oh, yes!

[Grown2Hate]

29. Either that or "painfully".

[orangecrush]

16. Great minds think alike

[Harker]

19. Evidently we do, too.

It's a natural reaction, I think.

[MyOwnPeace]

4. Nope - wrong two.........

THESE are the ones he should hear………

FUCK YOU!!!!!!

[bucolic_frolic]

3. As your presidency falls apart and 2026 looms, fight the last war again

It's grasping at straws for a disintegrating and damaged ego

[LetMyPeopleVote]

7. trump is scared of the latest polling numbers

https://democraticunderground.com/10143573571

[enough]

8. How long will the media normalize this stuff? How long will the Country

tolerate his disrespect?

[LetMyPeopleVote]

9. Why Trump Can't 'Void' Biden's Pardons Because of Autopen

trump uses the autopen for his pardons and other documents. trump has no power to void any of President Biden's orders or pardons

Why Trump Can’t ‘Void’ Biden’s Pardons Because of Autopen

Trump signaled that he intends to nullify all
presidential pardons—issued by Biden

time.com/7268902/trum...

— Tara O'Grady (@taraogrady.bsky.social) 2025-03-18T10:56:51.188Z

https://time.com/7268902/trump-void-bidens-pardon-autopen/

But according to the U.S. Constitution, the President has no such authority to overturn his predecessor’s pardons, especially not based on the type of signature, legal experts say. “The Constitution doesn't even require that the pardon be written, so the idea that the signature is by autopen rather than by handwritten signature seems not relevant to the constitutionality because Article II just says that the President has the power to pardon,” says Bernadette Meyler, a Stanford Law School professor and constitutional law expert.

Autopen is an electronic signature that allows individuals to sign a document without physically being there. The signature mimics a handwritten signature, but is done by a computer. A vast number of statutes and other documents have been signed by autopen, experts say. For instance, former President Barack Obama signed a national security measure via autopen while he was in France. Meyler says that if presidential pardons were to be invalidated because of an autopen signature, that could bring into question other policies that were signed by such measures. “When so much is being automated and put online, requiring some literalness in the signature really would be a step backwards," she says.

A 2005 guidance from the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) noted that a President does not need to “personally perform the physical act of affixing his signature to a bill he approves and decides to sign in order for the bill to become law. Rather, the President may sign a bill within the meaning of Article I, Section 7 by directing a subordinate to affix the President’s signature to such a bill, for example by autopen.”

Jeffrey Crouch, a professor at American University, told Axios that pardons are final so long as they are valid......

If Trump were to try to prosecute someone who received a presidential pardon, experts say the case would likely go to courts, where Trump’s actions are unlikely to stand. “I can't imagine the court saying that it wasn't a valid pardon because of the autopen issue,” says Meyler. “Biden made statements regarding these pardons, so it would be hard to show that they weren't a decision of the President.”

[Bayard]

36. Thanks for this info

There is no way trump has signed all of his pardons and executive orders himself, although I'm betting Miller has gotten pretty good at forging his signature.

He hates Presidents Biden and Obama, more than he loves anything--if he was even capable of that emotion. He just vomits up, "The World According To trump", and thinks that makes whatever he wants, true.

[Cha]

40. TY, LMPV!

[mahina]

10. Does this change anything I wonder?

[sinkingfeeling]

11. And I invalidate all your J6 pardons. Get real.

[yaesu]

12. The fascist nazi pig was going to do it anyway he just came up with another brainless excuse to do so. nt

[Attilatheblond]

13. He is so insecure he has to try to wipe out history

Women's History Month
Black History Month
Anything Biden signed

What's next? We know he and Sick Puppy Stephen Miller want the Bill of Rights & Constitution gone, along with courts that won't rubber stamp their fascist crap.

[RockCreek]

14. 99.9999% chance that any order he does to that effect will be signed with his autopen.

That would be par for him and the toe-jam in this administration.

[FloridaBlues]

15. It doesn't work that way...

[ColoringFool]

17. Biden Derangement Syndrome. AKA, Psychological...

Projection.

[Gregory1230]

27. Or...

I would like to add for “Trump Defense Syndrome” (TDefS) which worse than BDS because TDefS is more serious. I sometimes I inform any MAGA supporters explaining they have TDefS and needs to get professional help or/and nuthouse. I typed TDefS to avoid confusing for original TDS. Anyway that syndrome is very serious mental disorder. 😂👍😀

[BidenRocks]

18. Ex Post Facto

Sorry Chump!
Not sorry!
Die Soon!

[duckworth969]

20. This shit is NOT his idea

Miller, Cheung, Vought, et al. They’re not the brain trust, they’re co-president(s).

Hell, Chumpkin is probably dead. The only reason it seems like he’s talking is because Bannon has his hand up his ass.

[pansypoo53219]

21. i cannot wait for the oompah lompa to be DELETED and overturned.

[WestMichRad]

22. "Making up shit as we go!"

The official motto of the Shitstain administration.

[JohnnyRingo]

23. Is he testing the legal waters?

As in if he can get away with this he can end or enact laws unilaterally. He'll say the same of Obama.

I'm no lawyer, but I don't see how this will pass the 1st court.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

24. There is video of trump admitting to using autopen

Link to tweet

?s=20

[popsdenver]

25. My question

is that the best you got,................ mr poopy pants??????????

[Joinfortmill]

26. He's just committing more crimes

He needs to be impeached, and soon.

[Norrrm]

28. Justice Department quietly replaced 'identical' Trump signatures on recent pardons

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10143565579

Blames it on "technical errors".

What technical error could put the wrong signature on a document?

[BattleRow]

33. Autopenis?

[LaRaven]

30. Geez...the orange idiot is himself just an auto pen...

He has no idea what he signs - just likes put his signature on paper. He’s also just a media whore that wanted to stay out of jail.

[GreenWave]

31. I hope he autopenned "feed Trump".

[Quanta]

32. I'm surprised he hasn't demanded a crown and royal scepter yet.

You know this demented fuck is just dying to get fitted with his own red cloak with obnoxious fur collar.

[Hugin]

34. Thus, the first law of Trumpism kicks in...

Every accusation is a confession.

“Trump claimed Biden aides illegally used the autopen to carry out "radical" policies…”

I am going to suppose that there’s a scandal here that someday we may learn about. President Miller? Patel? Shady? Suzi Wiles? All of those?

Ultimately, Trump is going to try to use it as an out. Like to claim that he never signed the law to release the Epstein Files, for instance.

[Orrex]

35. Why doesn't he just fucking die already?

[MissouriDem47]

37. Lawsuits Will Come in an Avalanche

[GiqueCee]

38. Once again...

... the Orange Hellbeast plumbs new depths of juvenile pettiness and malicious depravity. He'll soon be on a first-name basis with Satan, but so will every self-serving skidmark that enables him, and the idiots that voted for him; a great number of whom are in the "find out" stage of buyer's remorse. They deserve whatever fate befalls them. The rest of us do not. But alas, here we are.

[Martin68]

39. Blah, blah, blah!