White House Investigating Biden Use Of Autopen In Sprawling Probe Of ‘incompetent And Senile’ Former President

EXCLUSIVE: The White House is investigating erstwhile President Joe Biden’s use of nan autopen, pinch elder management officials telling Fox News Digital that they already are reviewing tens of thousands of documents turned complete by nan National Archives and Records Administration (NARA). 

Officials told Fox News Digital that nan White House Counsel’s Office is starring nan investigation, but said that they are coordinating pinch nan Justice Department.

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The investigation is focused connected communications and different records related to Biden’s usage of nan autopen.

A elder management charismatic told Fox News Digital that they are not yet fresh to talk immoderate discoveries, but said that NARA already has provided much than 27,000 records to nan White House.

"Joe Biden was nan worst, astir incompetent, and senile president successful our country's history," Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt told Fox News Digital Tuesday. "It has been wide reported that Joe Biden handed nan powerfulness of nan presidency to an autopen controlled by unelected leftist staffers, who were allowed to make unspeakable decisions that destroyed our country." 

"The Trump White House is committed to uncovering nan answers to nan galore outstanding questions nan American group still person astir really business successful nan Biden White House was conducted," she said. 

Then-President Joe Biden, left, and then-President-elect Donald Trump get for nan inauguration ceremonial successful Washington Jan. 20, 2025.  (Melina Mara/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)

The charismatic told Fox News Digital that they expect to reappraisal upward of 1 cardinal documents.

As for entree to records held by NARA, nan charismatic said that each sitting president has entree to documents held by nan archives from nan anterior administration.

Senior management officials told Fox News Digital that nan scope of nan reappraisal covers applicable documents related to Biden's presidency and usage of nan autopen complete respective years, successful an effort to bring transparency to nan American group regarding nan erstwhile president’s health.

Officials besides said they are specifically reviewing whether location was immoderate argumentation successful spot to safeguard nan usage of nan autopen.

"What did nan erstwhile president direct, versus what he did not," 1 charismatic explained. "The only clip a morganatic usage of nan autopen should hap is if nan president said he wanted thing done, aliases if he was asked for his approval."

"This has been a privilege for nan management since nan beginning," different charismatic said. "The president’s signature is 1 of nan astir important signatures successful nan world."

(Officials besides said they are specifically reviewing whether location was immoderate argumentation successful spot to safeguard nan usage of nan autopen. (DOJ/Getty))

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"Was nan autopen inappropriately used?" an charismatic asked. "The White House and DOJ are reviewing documents done NARA and expect to do a heavy dive connected hundreds of thousands much documents." 

Biden utilized nan autopen to motion a slew of documents while successful office. Biden besides utilized nan autopen to motion last pardons, including preemptive pardons for members of his family, Dr. Anthony Fauci, Gen. Mark Milley and members and unit of nan House committee investigating nan Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riots. He only signed 1 pardon by hand, for his boy Hunter, aft vowing to nan American group for months he would not do so. 

In his last weeks successful office, Biden granted clemency and pardoned much than 1,500 individuals, successful what nan White House described astatine nan clip arsenic nan largest single-day enactment of clemency by a U.S. president.

An autopen is simply a instrumentality that physically holds a pen and features programming to imitate a person’s signature. Unlike a stamp aliases a digitized people of a signature, nan autopen has nan capacity to clasp various types of pens for illustration a ballpoint to a imperishable marker, according to descriptions of autopen machines disposable for purchase. 

Damilic Corp. president Bob Olding anchors a expanse of insubstantial arsenic nan Atlantic Plus, nan Signascript tabletop exemplary autopen, produces a signature astatine their Rockville, Md., office, June 13, 2011. (Manuel Balce Ceneta, File/The Associated Press) 

"The mobility is, did Biden surrender his Article II executive authorities to unelected staffers that nan American group don’t know, and to a instrumentality that holds nan aforesaid ineligible authority arsenic his correct hand, because he wasn’t tin of doing nan job?" 1 charismatic said. "Did unelected staffers, extremist staffers, usage nan powerfulness of this instrumentality to radically toggle shape America?"

Biden, successful a caller question and reply pinch nan New York Times, defended his usage of nan autopen, saying that he "made each decision" connected his own.

"We’re talking astir (granting clemency to) a full batch of people," Biden said. 

However, nan Times reported that Biden "did not individually o.k. each sanction for nan categorical pardons that applied to ample numbers of people," according to nan erstwhile president and his aides.

Congressional committees, for illustration nan House Oversight Committee, besides are investigating nan usage of nan autopen and Biden's wellness while successful office. 

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A elder management charismatic recognized their simultaneous effort, but stressed that nan White House Counsel's investigation is wholly abstracted from nan legislature probe. 

Former President Joe Biden, pictured present pinch his boy Hunter, successful a caller question and reply pinch nan New York Times defended his usage of nan autopen, saying that he "made each decision" connected his own. (Bonnie Cash/UPI/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Officials told Fox News Digital that nan investigation is simply a "massive effort," and 1 that they dream to decorativeness "as soon arsenic possible." 

"Lawyers are moving diligently to get answers," 1 charismatic said. "It is important for nan American group to cognize to what grade nan media played a cover-up connected Biden's well-being, and which signatures were astatine his guidance and which were astatine nan guidance of his staff." 

The charismatic added: "They elected a president — not a staff." 

As for Trump, officials told Fox News Digital that he does not usage nan autopen for thing that could beryllium considered charismatic business.

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The only clip Trump whitethorn usage nan autopen is for unofficial business, including correspondence, letters for birthdays, aliases commissioned records for wide shared documents.

President Donald Trump signed 4 executive orders successful May aimed astatine quadrupling home atomic power accumulation by 2050.  (Fox News)

"Nothing that would beryllium considered charismatic business," a White House charismatic told Fox News Digital. "Every executive bid signing has been nationalist and nan president has signed these documents unrecorded and successful person." 

Trump, successful June, sent a memo to nan Department of Justice directing Attorney General Pam Bondi to analyse nan autopen use, and to find whether it was related to a diminution successful Biden's intelligence state.