President Donald Trump declared Friday that he is nullifying a broad slate of executive actions issued under President Joe Biden, asserting in a social media post that any document Biden signed using an autopen is “terminated” and no longer valid.
In a statement posted Friday afternoon on his Truth Social platform, President Trump claimed that Biden used the autopen to sign “approximately 92 percent” of executive documents and argued the device cannot be used without explicit presidential approval.
Trump said he was canceling “all Executive Orders, and anything else that was not directly signed” by Biden, alleging without evidence that Biden “was not involved in the Autopen process.”
Trump also accused Biden’s aides of controlling access to official duties, saying they “took the Presidency away from him,” and warned that Biden could face perjury charges if he asserted involvement in autopen decisions.
Friday’s declaration coincides with a call for renewed scrutiny of how the Biden administration vetted and approved Afghan asylum seekers in the immediate wake of the chaotic and messy U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan – just days after an Afghan immigrant from that period shot two National Guard soldiers in Washington, DC, killing one of them.
Trump ended the statement, as he frequently does, by thanking supporters for their attention.
