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!

[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.”

[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.

[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.