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He then dropped the line that sent Washington into a panic spiral.
“Joe Biden was not involved in the Autopen process and, if he says he was, he will be brought up on charges of perjury.”
For critics of the Biden administration, this moment has been building for years. Biden’s repeated reliance on the autopen collided with growing public concern about his cognitive and physical decline. The public saw the stumbles. The pauses. The blank stares. And now, conservative watchdogs claim those concerns extended far deeper into the West Wing.
Throughout Biden’s presidency, senior staffers, longtime allies and even agency heads were accused of quietly managing his public appearances and shielding him from situations that required stamina or rapid responses. Trump and his allies repeatedly suggested that unelected advisers were effectively running the White House while Biden served as a symbolic figurehead.
Those accusations resurfaced aggressively this year after investigators launched massive document reviews examining how frequently the autopen replaced Biden’s real signature. Republicans demanded full transparency. Subpoenas followed. And now, more than one million Biden-era documents are under review.
Back in July, Fox News reported that officials were combing through years of paperwork in an attempt to determine whether Biden personally approved the items bearing his signature. One official put it simply.
“This has been a priority for the administration since the beginning,” the official said.
“The president’s signature is one of the most important signatures in the world.”
But as investigators expanded their scope, one finding stood out: the Oversight Project at the Heritage Foundation concluded that nearly every single Biden signature—except the letter announcing his withdrawal from the 2024 race—appeared to match an autopen pattern.
If true, the implications are enormous. Autopen signatures can be valid under specific statutes and circumstances, but only when the president authorizes them and only within clear legal guidelines. What investigators want to know now is simple:
Was Biden actually authorizing anything? Or were unelected handlers effectively running the country?
The controversy grows darker when considering Biden’s last-minute pardon spree. Critics argued at the time that he protected political allies rather than the American people — and now those pardons are being revisited under a new microscope.
Biden issued sweeping preemptive pardons, including for Dr. Anthony Fauci, members of the January 6 Committee, and General Mark Milley. He insisted they were at risk of “political targeting,” but many of these same figures have been accused of wrongdoing or misconduct.
If those pardons were not physically or personally approved by Biden himself, the legal battle ahead could be unprecedented.
Trump’s order marks one of the most consequential reversals in modern presidential history, and it signals a full-scale confrontation over legitimacy, transparency, and who actually held power during the Biden years.
Washington is bracing for impact — and this story is far from over.
