Trump's Investigation Into Joe Biden's Autopen Use Is Incredibly Stupid [View all]

Earlier DU thread: Trump Orders Investigation of Biden and His Aides

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Source: HuffPost

Trump’s Investigation Into Joe Biden’s Autopen Use Is Incredibly Stupid

This is purely about vengeance and feeding the conservative media machine.

By Paul Blumenthal
Jun 5, 2025, 05:28 PM EDT

President Donald Trump on Wednesday ordered the Department of Justice and White House counsel to launch an investigation into whether actions taken by former President Joe Biden are invalid, based on unfounded accusations that his aides made decisions for him.

Aside from the fact that the president directly ordering an investigation into his former political opponent would probably have been an impeachable offense until a few months ago, this investigation is, for the most part, meritless. It does not allege any laws were broken nor any constitutional provisions. It is what it looks like: a fishing expedition designed to exact revenge on Trump’s opponents and feed negative stories about Democrats to the press.

The presidential memorandum Trump issued on Wednesday claims that “former President Biden’s aides abused the power of Presidential signatures through the use of an autopen [automatic signature] to conceal Biden’s cognitive decline and assert Article II authority.”

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The premise of this investigation is largely unfounded. While it has been widely reported that Biden suffered from age-related decline and that his most inner circle tried, poorly, to hide this from those inside the White House and the public, there is no existing evidence to suggest that Biden’s aides “abused the power of Presidential signatures through the use of an autopen to conceal Biden’s cognitive decline and assert Article II authority.”

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Read more: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-biden-autopen_n_6841efb4e4b04e411be63eca