Trump Wonders About the Validity of Biden Documents Signed with An Autopen; Biden Sources Suspect Key Aide May Have Abused Autopen as Trump’s ‘far more restrictive’ Signing Rules Revealed

Trump wonders about the validity of Biden documents signed with an autopen:

President Trump on Friday suggested former President Biden’s signature on some official White House documents were not valid because of Mr. Biden’s cognitive decline in recent years and the apparent use of an autopen.

Many executive orders signed by Mr. Biden were approved with an autopen device, prompting questions about whether Mr. Biden was fully mindful of what was signed during his presidency.

“Crooked Joe Biden got us into a real mess with Russia and everything else he did, frankly, but he didn’t know about it, generally speaking, he signed it with an autopen,” he said in his remarks at the Justice Department headquarters in Washington.

“So how would he know that autopen is a big deal. … Who’s doing this? When my people come up, [and say], ’Sir, this is an executive order.’ They explain it to me. And 90% of the time I sign it and 99% of the time, I say, ’do it,’ but they come up and I sign it, but you don’t use autopen.”

The president said that using autopen is “disrespectful to the office” and “maybe it’s not even valid, because, you know, who’s getting [Mr. Biden] to sign? He had no idea what the hell he was doing,” Mr. Trump said.

The Heritage Foundation’s Oversight Project first found the situation related to Mr. Biden’s use of the autopen that led to Republican Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey asking about the legitimacy of executive orders Mr. Biden signed, given concerns about his cognitive decline in recent years. —>READ MORE HERE

Biden sources suspect key aide may have abused autopen as Trump’s ‘far more restrictive’ signing rules revealed:

A key aide to former President Joe Biden may have exceeded their authority by liberally using an autopen to sign official documents, according to two former White House sources, as President Trump’s aides set up “far more restrictive” rules governing the use of the mechanical device.

A document obtained by The Post outlines the narrow set of circumstances in which Trump’s signature can be affixed to documents, following controversy this week kicked off by a Heritage Foundation analysis of Biden signatures on various records, including last-minute pardons.

A small group of officials under both Biden and Trump have been delegated the power to get documents “signed” robotically, but 82-year-old Biden’s perceived cognitive decline sparked debate about whether some aides may have assumed his wishes in his final stretch as commander-in-chief.

One Biden White House source told The Post they suspect that a key aide to the then-president may have made unilateral determinations on what to auto-sign. The Post is not publishing that staffer’s name due to the lack of concrete evidence and refutations by other colleagues.

The Biden aide, who did not respond to requests for comment, would frequently make mention of what “the boss” wanted, the source said, but compatriots would have “no idea” if it was true because the internal culture was to not ask questions.

“I feared no one as much as I feared that [staffer]. To me, [the staffer] basically was the president,” the person said. “No one ever questioned [the staffer]. Period.”

“Everyone” was suspicious of this individual exceeding their authority when claiming to speak for the president, the source said. “But no one would actually say it.”

“I think [the aide] was using the autopen as standard and past protocol,” The Post’s informant said.

“There is no clarity on who actually approved what — POTUS or [the aide].”

A second Biden White House source agreed that the person was suspected of assuming the then-president’s positions and handing down orders without it being clear if they actually had communicated with him.

Several other former officials, including those who in the past have offered unvarnished assessments of what they view as the shortcomings of the ex-president and his core staff, described the allegation as absurd and said they never saw the person abuse their authority. —>READ MORE HERE

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