As we now know, former President Joe Biden — or more accurately, whoever was actually running things behind the curtain — relied heavily on the autopen to sign pardons, proclamations, executive orders, and commutations. Given Biden’s obvious mental decline throughout much of his presidency, the spectacle of a literal robot pen churning out consequential legal documents raised serious questions about who was truly exercising executive power. President Donald Trump addressed that absurdity head-on earlier this month, declaring that anything signed by the autopen was “null and void.”
In what was a master troll, he additionally included an image of an autopen as Biden’s ‘official portrait’ in the newly established White House Presidential Walk of Fame. On Tuesday, the administration persisted in implementing repercussions for Biden’s irresponsibility and denied his appeal for executive privilege regarding the issue:
Former President Joe Biden requested executive privilege amid the Congressional investigations into his administration’s use of the autopen, with the Trump administration rejecting the request Tuesday, Fox News Digital learned.
“I am concerned that disclosure of these materials would damage important institutional interests of the Presidency, including by impairing the ability of future Presidents to receive robust, candid advice from their close advisers. For these reasons, I hereby assert executive privilege over the documents listed,” Biden wrote in a letter to Archival Operations Division of the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) Oct. 1, 2025, according to a copy of the letter obtained by Fox News Digital.
? LMFAO! President Trump is currently giving the Saudi Crown Prince a tour of the White House, and they stopped to see the Joe Biden Autopen portrait in the Presidential Walk of Fame
47’s so proud of this ? pic.twitter.com/jhmoHC4J1E
— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) November 18, 2025
Yeah, whatever, as White House Counsel David Warrington essentially said in denying the request. He also noted that the widespread use of the autopen, especially as Biden’s mental health was obviously declining towards the waning months of his presidency, was monumentally irresponsible:
As President Trump has stated, the abuse of the autopen that took place during the Biden Presidency, and the extraordinary efforts to shield President Biden’s diminished faculties from the public, must be subject to a full accounting to ensure nothing similar ever happens again.
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The White House counsel also reminded the National Archives and Records Administration, the recipient of the letter, that the Biden administration’s infringement on our freedoms during the COVID period should not be overlooked or ignored:
Similarly, President Biden’s repeated abuses of the rights of American citizens during the pandemic and his politically motivated efforts to investigate Members of Congress must also be subject to a full accounting to ensure nothing similar ever happens again. Congress has a compelling need in service of its legislative functions to understand the circumstances that led to all these horrific events.
Warrington then dropped the hammer:
President Trump has determined that an assertion of executive privilege is not in the best interests of the United States, and therefore is not justified as to any of the documents requested by the United States Congress.
There is NO paper trail to prove Joe Biden approved the pardons signed by autopen.
There's no evidence he even participated in the process to make decisions on these signatures.
His inner circle covered up his decline and put America in grave danger.
NULL and VOID! pic.twitter.com/HoJyAbZE3u
— Oversight Committee (@GOPoversight) December 4, 2025
Warrington also noted that the signature attributed to Biden on his letter seeking immunity does not resemble the one he displayed when pardoning his son, Hunter, and emphasized that congressional inquiries into potential abuse should persist.
“The Biden Autopen Presidency will go down as one of the biggest political scandals in U.S. history,” House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (KY-01) said in October.
Undoubtedly, the complete and brazen concealment by the administration, the media, and the president concerning his declining mental abilities should be remembered as one of the most corrupt and deceitful schemes in the history of our nation.
