Trump Declares Most Biden Documents Void, Citing ‘Illegal’ Autopen Use

In a sweeping declaration, President Donald Trump announced on Friday that he is terminating “approximately 92%” of documents signed by former President Joe Biden, claiming they were authorized illegitimately via mechanical “autopen” without Biden’s direct approval.

The announcement, made via Truth Social, ties directly into a new immigration directive Trump unveiled hours before, which vows to “terminate all of the millions of Biden illegal admissions” by classifying them as legally void from their inception.

In his Friday morning post, Trump claimed that the vast majority of Biden’s official acts were orchestrated by staff members rather than the former president himself.

“Any document signed by Sleepy Joe Biden with the Autopen, which was approximately 92% of them, is hereby terminated, and of no further force or effect,” Trump wrote. “The Autopen is not allowed to be used if approval is not specifically given by the President of the United States.”

Trump went further, alleging a “cover-up” within the Biden White House. “The Radical Left Lunatics circling Biden around the beautiful Resolute Desk in the Oval Office took the Presidency away from him,” he stated. “I am hereby cancelling all Executive Orders, and anything else that was not directly signed by Crooked Joe Biden… Joe Biden was not involved in the Autopen process and, if he says he was, he will be brought up on charges of perjury.”

The move appears designed to bypass standard legal revocation procedures for immigration statuses. On Thursday, while announcing a “permanent pause” on immigration from what he termed “third world countries,” Trump explicitly linked the autopen theory to his mass deportation goals.

By asserting that admission documents signed via autopen were never validly executed, the administration is pursuing a legal theory that these immigrants were never technically “admitted” to the U.S., potentially stripping them of due process rights associated with revocation.

The President’s declaration relies heavily on a theory championed by the House Oversight Committee. Their recent investigations have alleged that President Biden’s cognitive decline was so severe that staff members, specifically a tight circle of aides, began authorizing executive actions, pardons, and admissions independently, using the autopen machine to affix Biden’s signature without his knowledge.

While the autopen has been a standard tool for U.S. presidents for decades to sign routine correspondence and commissions, its use for substantive executive orders without direct presidential authorization would break with protocol.

A 2005 Department of Justice Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) opinion explicitly upheld the constitutionality of the autopen, stating that “the President need not personally perform the physical act of affixing his signature” as long as the authorization is clear.