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If you do letters where people write in and they'd love to have a response and we write responses—I'll sign them whenever I can, but when I can't I will use an autopen."
Speaking to reporters at the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C. on Monday, he said
But to use them for what they've used them for is terrible."
Commenting on the Biden administration's alleged use of autopens, Trump said on Monday.jpg)
The president was begging the question that I think a jot of journalists in this room should be asking … did the [former] president even know about these pardons? Was his legal signature used without his consent or knowledge?”
Leavitt said
You’re a reporter, you should find out.”
Asked whether there was any evidence Biden was not aware of the pardons, Leavitt saidI went through four years of hell by the scum that we had to deal with … It’s really hard to say that they shouldn’t have to go through it all,
he told Fox News in his first week back in officeBut none has shown the same symptoms of senility and dementia [as Biden],
the newspaper saidThe members of the Jan 6 Committee are all proud of our work. Your threats will not intimidate us. Or silence us.”
Following Trump’s post, Schiff respondedDid he know what he was doing?”
Trump said aboard Air Force One on Sunday (Washington time).The notion of an autopen is certainly not going to go anywhere in any court in the United States,
he said
There might be a serious legal question about pardoning without specifying the conduct that you're being pardoned for, right? So the blanket pardon for Hunter Biden ... a blanket pardon might be problematic because it's not clear what you're pardoning somebody for,
Adler said
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The Bush Justice Department looked at this thoroughly and concluded that as long as the President makes the actual decision, he can delegate to secretarial staff the actual signing of the document,
said Berkeley Law professor and former Justice Department official John Yoo
I cannot see the courts rejecting this — it builds on centuries of practice and a long legal tradition of allowing agents to sign on behalf of their principals,
Yoo addedNo reasonable lawyer, no reasonable politician would ever say anything like this,
said American University Department of Government professor Chris Edelson of Trump's pardons claimAll the awful apartment leases & car leases & loan terms that are now null & void re: DocuSign meets Donald Trump logic,
said one X user
So, we don't have to pay back any loans for loan contracts we signed with DocuSign. [Yeehaw], good times!"
wrote anotherBring it on, dude!
Adam Kinzinger embraces Trump voiding Biden’s pardonsHe’s trolling Democrats saying Biden’s illegitimate term in power was just an autopen [face with tears of joy emoji],
the post readsAnd so I think it's a question that everybody in this room should be looking into, because certainly that would propose perhaps criminal or illegal behavior if staff members were signing the president of the United States autograph without his consent,
she continued
One of the best-kept secrets in Washington: The robot that sits in for the president.”
In 1968, Lyndon Johnson allowed photographs of his autopen while he was in office, which followed a front page splash in the National Enquirer titled
Our practice around autopen usage is far more restrictive than most previous administrations. We do not use the autopen for documents that exercise the powers of the Presidency,
Scharf wrote according to the memo seen by the New York Post Thursday