US President Donald Trump announced on Friday that he was nullifying all documents signed by autopen during the administration of his predecessor, Joe Biden.
“Any document signed by Sleepy Joe Biden with the Autopen, which was approximately 92% of them, is hereby terminated, and of no further force or effect,” Trump said on social media.
He added that he was “hereby cancelling all Executive Orders, and anything else that was not directly signed by Crooked Joe Biden, because the people who operated the Autopen did so illegally.”
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Trump had already moved quickly after returning to the White House in January, issuing an order revoking nearly 80 Biden-era executive orders. Some of those remain in effect and may now be cancelled.
However, he did not specify which existing orders will be impacted. Biden signed 162 executive orders during his presidency from 2021-2024.
It is not clear how many were signed using the autopen and who will validate Biden’s signatures. It’s not unusual for presidents to strike down directives signed by their predecessors.
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