Trump responds to Biden dismissal of autopen probe, says he didn't know 'what was going on'

President Donald Trump maintained his content that erstwhile President Joe Biden didn't person "much of an thought what was going on" erstwhile helium served arsenic president erstwhile asked Thursday to respond to Biden's dismissal of an probe into his administration's usage of an autopen. 

"He was ne'er for unfastened borders. He was ne'er for transgender for everybody. He was ne'er for men playing successful women's sports. I mean, helium changed," Trump said Thursday from the Oval Office during a gathering with German Chancellor Friedrich Merz. "I mean, each of these things that that changed truthful radically. I don't deliberation helium had immoderate thought … I said it during the statement and I accidental it now, helium didn't person overmuch of an thought what was going on." 

"Essentially, whoever utilized the autopen was the president, and that is wrong," helium added. "It's illegal. It's truthful bad, and it's truthful disrespectful to our country." 

Trump sent a memo to the Department of Justice Wednesday directing Attorney General Pam Bondi's section to analyse whether Biden medication aides conspired to deceive the nationalist astir his intelligence state, and simultaneously utilizing an autopen to motion cardinal statesmanlike actions. 

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President Donald Trump, left, maintained his content that erstwhile President Joe Biden, right, didn't person "much of an thought what was going on" erstwhile helium served arsenic president.  (Win McNamee/Pool via Reuters, Getty Images)

"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."

Biden responded to the memo Wednesday evening, brushing it disconnected arsenic "ridiculous" and a "distraction" enactment distant by the GOP. 

"Let maine beryllium clear: I made the decisions during my presidency. I made the decisions astir the pardons, enforcement orders, authorities and proclamations. Any proposition that I didn’t is ridiculous and false," Biden said. "This is thing much than a distraction by Donald Trump and Congressional Republicans who are moving to propulsion disastrous authorities that would chopped indispensable programs similar Medicaid and rise costs connected American families, each to wage for taxation breaks for the ultra-wealthy and large corporations." 

Trump continued successful his Thursday comments that the Biden administration's usage of an autopen is 1 of the biggest governmental scandals successful U.S. history, remarking that autopens are typically utilized to nonstop wide amounts of letters — not for authoritative statesmanlike actions. 

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"I motion important documents. Usually, erstwhile they enactment documents successful beforehand of you, they're important. Even if you're signing ambassadorships oregon — and I see that important, I deliberation it's inappropriate," Trump continued. "You person idiosyncratic that's devoting 4 years of their beingness oregon much to being an ambassador. I deliberation you truly merit that idiosyncratic deserves to get a existent signature, not a not an autopen signature." 

President Donald Trump maintained that Biden administration's usage of an autopen is 1 of the biggest governmental scandals successful U.S. history. (Manuel Balce Ceneta/The Associated Press)

The president added that helium tin easy place autopen signatures from genuine pen-to-paper signatures owed to "two small pinholes from pulling the paper" that are recovered connected documents. 

"I deliberation it's precise disrespectful to radical erstwhile they get an autopen signature," Trump said. "Autopen to maine are utilized erstwhile thousands of letters travel successful from young radical each implicit the country, and you privation to get them backmost and, you know, radical usage car pens for that to send, a small signature astatine the bottommost of a letter. We person thousands of them. We get thousands of letters a week, and it's not imaginable to, you know, though I'd similar to bash it myself, but you can't bash it. That's wherever autopens commencement and stop." 

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Former President Joe Biden responded to the memo, brushing it disconnected arsenic "ridiculous" and a "distraction" enactment distant by the GOP.  (Susan Walsh/The Associated Press)

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Autopen signatures are automatically produced by a machine, arsenic opposed to an authentic, handwritten signature.

The blimpish Heritage Foundation's Oversight Project archetypal investigated the Biden administration's usage of an autopen earlier successful 2025 and recovered that the aforesaid signature was connected a bevvy of enforcement orders and different authoritative documents, portion Biden’s signature connected the papers announcing his departure from the 2024 contention varied from the evident machine-produced signature.

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The reports led to speculation that Biden aides had approved of enforcement orders and sweeping pardons, not the president.