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Presidents have used autopens for decades. Now Trump objects to Biden's use of one
President Donald Trump is claiming that pardons recently issued by Joe Biden to lawmakers and staff on the congressional committee that investigated the Jan. 6 Capitol riot have no force because, he says, Biden signed them with an autopen.apnews.com
Presidents have used autopens for decades. Now Trump objects to Biden’s use of one
I can't wait for the OP's usual acrobatics to prove Biden wrong, even though all presidents, including trump have used autopen.

Analysis: Biden Unaware of Executive Orders ‘Signed’ by Autopen
President Joe Biden issued 162 executive orders over the course of his Oval Office tenure, but according to a new report, most of them were signed by "autopen,"

Biden used ‘autopen signature’ on many official WH docs, raising concerns over his awareness
Dozens of executive orders signed by former President Joe Biden were authorized with identical autopen signatures — raising crucial questions about whether he was fully aware of what he was signing…

The problem comes down to Did Biden know these documents were being signed? Did he authorize their signing? Given that we know Biden was suffering dementia and senility at a fairly serious level, did staffers take advantage of that and use an autopen to sign stuff Biden knew nothing about? If they did, and it's looking pretty damn likely given the amount / percentage of documents signed in the last 100 days of that administration by autopen, then there is a major problem and one that seriously criminal.