President claims without evidence that January 6 panel members’ pre-emptive clemency was not signed personallyDonald Trump claimed on Monday, without offering evidence, that pardons signed by Joe Biden were “void, vacant and of no further force and effect” because they were signed with an autopen.The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines an autopen as “a device that mechanically reproduces a person’s signature”. Continue reading...
Donald Trump falsely claimed that pardons signed by President Biden are invalid because they were signed with an autopen, alleging Biden was unaware of them. This claim, made on his social media platform and to reporters, lacks evidence and has been debunked by fact-checkers. The use of autopens by presidents for signing documents is a long-standing practice.
