By Molly Claire Goddard
3:20pm PDT, Jun 21, 2025
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Donald Trump is coming after
Joe Biden's pardons.
Before leaving office, the former Democratic president granted clemency to his son
Hunter Biden, along with first siblings
James Biden,
Frank Biden,
Valerie Biden Owens and their spouses,
John Owens and
Sara Biden. Now, the current commander-in-chief's Department of Justice is investigating whether or not Joe was of sound mind when he issued those orders.
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Donald Trump and the DOJ claims Joe Biden's signature on the December 1, 2024, pardon of Hunter Biden looks shaky with an uphill slant and thinner ink than that of the other signatures he printed on the pardons of his other family members that he signed on January 19, 2025.
"Perhaps those documents were signed with the autopen," White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said at a press briefing. "It's something that I believe the Department of Justice is looking into."
In an email obtained by Reuters, DOJ Pardon Attorney Ed Martin reportedly ordered his staffers to look into the extent the former senator "was competent and whether others were taking advantage of him through use of autopen or other means."
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In order to determine whether or not Joe Biden was aware of what he was signing his name to in the final weeks of his presidency, House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer will be heading the Congressional investigation into the matter.
"We're starting with these staffers that we know were the ones who manually put the documents in the autopen and pressed the power button to sign Joe Biden's signature," the Republican from Kentucky explained during an interview with Fox News' Sean Hannity. "We want to know who told them to do what and when and we want to know that Joe Biden actually gave the authority to do that — that Joe Biden was cognitively aware of what he was doing and if he even told them to use the autopen."
"The amount of executive orders that were signed in the last 90 days of the Biden presidency is breathtaking. I don't think the average American realizes how much activity there was in this White House at a time when almost every American now realizes that Joe Biden was completely checked out," he added.
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In March, Donald Trump took to Truth Social to complain about Joe Biden's alleged use of an autopen.
"The 'pardons' that sleepy Joe Biden gave to the unselect committee of political thugs and many others, are hereby declared VOID, VACANT AND OF NO FURTHER FORCE OR EFFECT, because of the fact that they were done by autopen," he wrote.
Despite the Republican leader's quest to hold the Delaware native accountable, former federal prosecutor Neama Rahmani thinks it will be "very hard" for anyone to prove Joe didn't issue the pardons.
"You'd have to hear from Biden himself admitting it wasn't him. It's highly, highly unlikely," the federal prosecutor said. "You'd need some smoking-gun evidence."
