The 47th president of the United States has taken to his own social media platform to tell the he has nixed 'any and all Documents' signed by Biden with autopen.
Rachel Vickers-Price
01:31, 03 Dec 2025
US president Donald Trump has followed through on his threat to cancel all documents, including executive orders, contracts, and legal pardons, signed by autopen during the Biden administration.
Trump, 79, took to his own social media platform to announce the news on Wednesday, December 3.
"Any and all Documents, Proclamations, Executive Orders, Memorandums, or Contracts, signed by Order of the now infamous and unauthorized 'AUTOPEN,' within the Administration of Joseph R. Biden Jr., are hereby null, void, and of no further force or effect," the 47th US president said via Truth Social.
"Anyone receiving 'Pardons', 'Commutations,' or any other Legal Document so signed, please be advised that said Document has been fully and completely terminated, and is of no Legal effect."
He ended the post with: "Thank you for your attention to this matter!"
During a recent state visit from Saudi crown prince Mohammed bin Salman, Trump was seen showing off the so-called "Biden autopen" he has prominently displayed in the White House. As per The Mirror US, the Trump administration has also swapped out Biden's portrait in the Presidential Walk of Fame by the Oval Office. It was replaced with a shot of an autopen.
In what was likely his final move before leaving the White House, former US president Joe Biden issued a number of pardons to protect his own family members on Trump's inauguration day.
His son Hunter and his brother James were therefore protected against possible future charges in connection with the pardoned investigations.
Other pre-emptive pardons signed by Biden on the day included members of Congress who sat on the January 6th investigation committee and for Anthony Fauci, America's Director of Infectious Diseases, who devised the US Covid response and a number of other people that Biden feared Trump would target for revenge prosecutions once returning to office.
Trump's move on Tuesday follows through on his repeated promises to the American public to target what he calls “the entire Biden crime family” and his allies.
Hunter Biden was facing sentencing for two criminal cases when his father left office. Biden had previously ruled out pardoning his son, but walked back on his previous comments as he left the Oval Office.
Specifically, Trump has canned any documents signed via 'autopen', which is a device that can copy a person's signature and use it to sign documents - either for jobs that require a huge number of signatures, or, say, when the President is able to give an order but not physically present to sign it.
Trump has previously claimed that the decisions taken on which orders - and particularly Presidential pardons - to sign, were taken by people other than Biden, either because he was incapable of understanding the orders or because he was simply unaware that they were being made on his behalf.
Trump's move is the latest in repeated criticisms and attempts to deligitimise the Biden administration after losing the 2020 election. He continues to falsely claim election fraud played a role in his loss, and his latest autopen move is an apparent attempt to erase his loss in 2020 from the history books entirely.
The move has seen Trump celebrated by his Republican colleagues, with many taking to social media to share their glee.
Right-wing think tank the Heritage Foundation, who launched the Oversight Project in 2022 with the sole mission of “increasing aggressive oversight of the Biden administration” took to X (formerly Twitter ) to thank Trump.
“Thank you President Trump for taking our historic Autopen investigation and findings seriously and ordering your Administration to take action,” the group said.
GOP-led House Oversight committee chair James Comer, who is also a Republican congressman, thew his support behind Trump and the cancellation of autopen files.
“I applaud President Trump for deeming President Biden’s autopen actions NULL AND VOID," he wrote.
Biden has denied claims that his aides acted without his knowledge when he granted a slew of pardons and commutations in the final days and hours of his presidency, telling the New York Times in July he signed each and every last file himself.
“I made every single one of those,” he said when asked about claims that he was incapacitated.
Biden called the people making those claims “liars”, adding, “They know it.”