Trump orders Attorney General to investigate Biden's autopen use amid cognitive decline concerns

President Donald Trump called connected Attorney General Pam Bondi to pb an probe into whether definite individuals moving for erstwhile President Joe Biden conspired to deceive the nationalist astir his intelligence authorities portion besides exercising his statesmanlike responsibilities by utilizing an autopen.

In a memo connected Wednesday, Trump said the president of the U.S. has a tremendous magnitude of powerfulness and work done the signature. Not lone tin the signature crook words into laws of the land, but it besides appoints individuals to immoderate of the highest positions successful government, creates oregon eliminates nationalist policies and allows prisoners to spell free.

"In caller months, it has go progressively evident that erstwhile President Biden's aides abused the powerfulness of Presidential signatures done the usage of an autopen to conceal Biden's cognitive diminution and asseverate Article II authority," Trump wrote. "This conspiracy marks 1 of the astir unsafe and concerning scandals successful American history. The American nationalist was purposefully shielded from discovering who wielded the enforcement power, each portion Biden's signature was deployed crossed thousands of documents to effect extremist argumentation shifts."

He continued, saying Biden had suffered from "serious cognitive decline" for years, and the Department of Justice (DOJ) precocious concluded that Biden should not basal trial, contempt wide grounds helium broke the law, due to the fact that of his intelligence state.

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President Trump called connected Attorney General Pam Bondi to motorboat an probe into whether erstwhile President Biden's squad utilized an autopen and covered up the erstwhile president's cognitive decline. (Trump: Reuters / Autopen: AP)

"Biden's cognitive issues and evident intelligence diminution during his presidency were adjacent ‘worse’ successful private, and those closest to him ‘tried to fell it’ from the public," Trump said. "To bash so, Biden's advisors during his years successful bureau severely restricted his quality conferences and media appearances, and they scripted his conversations with lawmakers, authorities officials, and donors, each to screen up his inability to discharge his duties."

Still, during the Biden presidency, the White House issued implicit 1,200 Presidential documents, appointed 235 judges to the national seat and issued much pardons and commutations than immoderate medication successful U.S. history, Trump said.

The president wrote astir Biden’s determination conscionable 2 days earlier Christmas 2024, to commute the sentences of 37 of the 40 astir unsafe criminals connected national decease row, including wide murderers and kid killers.

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A caller publication describes President Joe Biden's furniture meetings arsenic "scripted" and "uncomfortable."  (Paul Morigi/Getty Images for Care Can't Wait Action)

"Although the authorization to instrumentality these enforcement actions, on with galore others, is constitutionally committed to the President, determination are superior doubts arsenic to the decision-making process and adjacent the grade of Biden's consciousness of these actions being taken successful his name," Trump wrote. "The immense bulk of Biden's enforcement actions were signed utilizing a mechanical signature pen, often called an autopen, arsenic opposed to Biden's ain hand. This was particularly existent of actions taken during the 2nd fractional of his Presidency, erstwhile his cognitive diminution had seemingly go adjacent much wide to those moving astir intimately with him.

"Given wide indications that President Biden lacked the capableness to workout his Presidential authority, if his advisors secretly utilized the mechanical signature pen to conceal this incapacity, portion taking extremist enforcement actions each successful his name, that would represent an unconstitutional wielding of the powerfulness of the Presidency, a condition that would person implications for the legality and validity of galore enforcement actions undertaken successful Biden's name," helium added.

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President-elect Donald Trump shakes hands with U.S. President Joe Biden astatine Trump's inauguration successful the U.S. Capitol Rotunda connected January 20, 2025 successful Washington, DC (Kenny Holston-Pool/Getty Images)

The memo goes connected to telephone for an probe that addresses if definite individuals, who are not named successful the document, conspired to deceive the American nationalist astir the erstwhile president’s intelligence authorities and "unconstitutionally" exercised the president’s authorization and responsibilities.

Specifically, Trump called connected the attorney general’s probe to look astatine immoderate enactment that purposefully shielded the nationalist from accusation astir Biden’s intelligence and carnal health; immoderate agreements betwixt his aides to falsely deem recorded videos of Biden’s cognitive quality arsenic fake; and immoderate agreements betwixt Biden’s aides to necessitate false, nationalist statements that elevated the president’s capabilities.

The probe volition besides look astatine which argumentation documents the autopen was utilized for, including clemency grants, enforcement orders, and statesmanlike memoranda, arsenic good arsenic who directed Biden’s signature to beryllium affixed to those documents.

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Trump said past week that helium thinks Biden did not truly hold with galore of his administration’s lax borderline information policies, alternatively suggesting that those surrounding the erstwhile president took vantage of his declining faculties and utilized the autopen to walk extremist directives pertaining to the border.

House Republicans, led by Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer, launched an probe earlier past period aimed astatine determining whether Biden, who was successful declining wellness during the last months of his presidency, was mentally acceptable to authorize the usage of the autopen. Comer said past week helium was "open" to dragging Biden earlier the House to reply questions astir the substance if necessary. 

Fox News Digital’s Alec Schemmel contributed to this report.