Justice Department quietly replaced 'identical' Trump signatures on recent pardons
Source: abc
President Donald Trump is facing new scrutiny over the use of a replicated signature on several recent pardons
JIM MUSTIAN BRIAN SLODYSKO MATT BROWN November 14, 2025, 7:51 PM
WASHINGTON -- The Justice Department posted pardons online bearing identical copies of President Donald Trumps signature before quietly correcting them this week after what the agency called a technical error.
The replacements came after online commenters seized on striking similarities in the president's signature across a series of pardons dated Nov. 7, including those granted to former New York Mets player Darryl Strawberry, former Tennessee House speaker Glen Casada and former New York police sergeant Michael McMahon. In fact, the signatures on several pardons initially uploaded to the Justice Department's website were identical, two forensic document experts confirmed to The Associated Press.
Within hours of the online speculation, the administration replaced copies of the pardons with new ones that did not feature identical signatures. It insisted Trump, who mercilessly mocked his predecessors use of an autopen, had originally signed all the Nov. 7 pardons himself and blamed technical and staffing issues for the error, which has no bearing on the validity of the clemency actions.
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A basic axiom of handwriting identification science is that no two signatures are going to bear the exact same design features in every aspect, said Tom Vastrick, a Florida-based handwriting expert who is president of the American Society of Questioned Document Examiners. ..........................
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underpants
(194,063 posts)
Dixiegrrrl
(165 posts)WestMichRad
(2,825 posts)
when I was in kindergarten!
Lovie777
(21,256 posts)ck4829
(37,279 posts)ToxMarz
(2,643 posts)affect their signature. Happens all the time. The Sharpie is a very technical and staff intensive machine.
OldBaldy1701E
(9,666 posts)Don't even wait for him to start speaking. Just start laughing at him the moment he appears anywhere. Same with his cronies. If Miller, or Vance, or Rubio, or Johnson appears, just start pointing and laughing at them. Loudly.
LisaM
(29,438 posts)First, he always projects on others what he does himself, and second, it would be very unusual for anyone who is in charge of a large organization to personally sign everything themselves.
Just Jerome
(392 posts)a copy of his EKG.
odins folly
(503 posts)And will anyone be surprised that after he is gone, all the signatures on all of the pardons will all be identical ..
PatSeg
(51,581 posts)I want to say unbelievable, but it is more like Trump as usual.
Trueblue Texan
(4,065 posts)Riiiiiiight.
3catwoman3
(28,278 posts)...15,000 seconds, which is 250 minutes, which is 4.16666667 hours. No way he would have had the attention span to sign his name for 4+ hours.
travelingthrulife
(3,949 posts)ck4829
(37,279 posts)fargone
(524 posts)travelingthrulife
(3,949 posts)No wonder Donnie Boy didn't know anything about one of the last guys he pardoned. Stephen Miller's probably been wielding the autopen.
traveler50
(18 posts)Does anyone really believe that he signed the 1600 pardons he gave in one day for the January 6th insurrection.
Norrrm
(3,542 posts)RussBLib
(10,377 posts)...is the "Sincerely" part. There is nothing sincere about this lying POS.