Pardons Signed With Autopen While Biden Was On Vacation
The Oversight Project, a government watchdog nonprofit run by The Heritage Foundation, has sounded the alarm about Biden’s consistent use of an autopen to sign official documents throughout his presidency.
“Whoever controlled the autopen controlled the presidency,” the Oversight Project wrote in a post on X.
“We gathered every document we could find with Biden’s signature over the course of his presidency. All used the same autopen signature except for the the [sic] announcement that the former President was dropping out of the race last year. Here is the autopen signature,” the nonprofit added.
Presidential memorabiliaJoe Biden memorabilia
WHOEVER CONTROLLED THE AUTOPEN CONTROLLED THE PRESIDENCY
We gathered every document we could find with Biden's signature over the course of his presidency.
All used the same autopen signature except for the the announcement that the former President was dropping out of the… https://t.co/CC3oJUkNr4 pic.twitter.com/mtNrZsALDu
— Oversight Project (@OversightPR) March 6, 2025
One shocking incident they discovered was that six pardons were signed with the “exact same autopen signature” on December 30, 2022, while Biden was on vacation and golfing in the U.S. Virgin Islands.
“Note they all say they are ‘Signed in the City of Washington,’” the Oversight Project explained in another post on X.
Who is behind this autopen on 12/30/2022 that pardoned six criminals (with the exact same autopen signature) while Joe Biden was vacationing and golfing in the U.S. Virgin Islands?
Note they all say they are "Signed in the City of… https://t.co/b0SEtalm4N pic.twitter.com/dN7BbVOiVj
— Oversight Project (@OversightPR) March 10, 2025
During that same vacation, White House aides flew an omnibus spending bill to Biden in the Virgin Islands to sign, but the pardons were all marked as signed in Washington, D.C., and were clearly signed by autopen.
Looking at more recent documents, the Oversight Project has confirmed that both Hunter Biden’s pardon and Biden’s announcement about ending his reelection bid appear to have been signed by hand.
However, all of Biden’s other controversial pardons — including the sweeping, broad pardons of Anthony Fauci, retired Gen. Mark Milley, members of the disgraced January 6 Committee like former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY), and other Biden family members — were signed with the same autopen signature, according to Oversight Project chief counsel Kyle Brosnan.
Autopen Update
We analyzed Biden's Jan. 19, 2025 "pardons" for:
-Biden Family Members
-Anthony Fauci
-General Milley
-J6 Committee
-Gerald LunderganThey all have the same exact Biden autopen signature https://t.co/jc6mkx37il pic.twitter.com/8VeBDwLNv7
— Oversight Project (@OversightPR) March 11, 2025
Brosnan told The Daily Wire that the Biden administration’s use of the autopen to sign presidential pardons was especially “troubling” because the authority to issue pardons belongs solely to the president as a “constitutional principle.”
“You have to look at it in the context of President Biden’s mental decline,” Brosnan added, highlighting the fact that former special counsel Robert Hur called Biden an “elderly man with a poor memory” in his report last year.
“I think we all saw with our own eyes his mental and physical deterioration over the course of his presidency,” Brosnan continued. “There’s article after article that comes out showing how the Biden administration and his staff shielded him from public view, retinkered his schedule throughout the presidency, tried to script even what reporters he was calling on at press conferences, and that volume of evidence shows that President Biden wasn’t really running the White House. It was the staff. So if he’s not hand-signing these legally operative documents like pardons or even bills into law, that raises another question.”
Brosnan went on to argue that President Donald Trump’s Department of Justice (DOJ) needs to look into the Biden administration’s autopen policies and determine whether individuals other than Biden were authorized to use the autopen. He also argued that there should be an investigation into the Biden administration’s approval process for affixing a signature.
“We need to figure out who was actually running the country for the last four years,” Brosnan added.
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