Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene demanded immediate legal action against Anthony Fauci after President Donald Trump declared that every executive order and pardon bearing Joe Biden’s mechanical signature had been revoked.
Greene reacted within minutes of Trump’s announcement, posting that “autopen pardons are repealed then prosecute Fauci for crimes against humanity.”
Her post echoed frustration among Republicans who argued that Biden’s reliance on a machine to sign presidential actions raised questions about the legitimacy of decisions made during his administration.
Trump detailed his directive in a lengthy Truth Social statement, insisting that the bulk of Biden’s actions lacked lawful authorization because the former president did not physically approve them.
"I am hereby cancelling all Executive Orders, and anything else that was not directly signed by Crooked Joe Biden, because the people who operated the Autopen did so illegally." – President Donald J. Trump 🇺🇸 pic.twitter.com/D5mzIl1Cai
— The White House (@WhiteHouse) November 28, 2025
Trump wrote that “any document signed by Sleepy Joe Biden with the Autopen, which was approximately 92 percent of them, is hereby terminated, and of no further force or effect.”
He added that “the Autopen is not allowed to be used if approval is not specifically given by the President of the United States.”
He accused Biden’s circle of shielding the former president from his duties, alleging that “Radical Left Lunatics circling Biden around the beautiful Resolute Desk in the Oval Office took the Presidency away from him.”
Trump insisted that anything “not directly signed by Crooked Joe Biden” would no longer stand, arguing that individuals who handled the autopen “did so illegally.”
Trump warned that Biden “was not involved in the autopen process and, if he says he was, he will be brought up on charges of perjury.”
Among the most politically volatile actions tied to the autopen was Biden’s preemptive pardon of Fauci, a decision that had been widely criticized by conservatives even before the new controversy emerged.
Biden granted the pardon to shield Fauci from future prosecution related to his government service, including matters connected to the COVID response and his testimony regarding gain-of-function research.
Fauci maintained he had “committed no crime” and argued that the pardon was intended to address what he described as “baseless threats” directed at him.
Trump’s sweeping nullification reignited debate over whether Biden’s move to shield Fauci from legal exposure was itself legitimate.
While presidents may rescind executive orders from prior administrations, longstanding legal understanding holds that clemency grants cannot be withdrawn once issued.
Yet Trump insisted the autopen voided the process, making the underlying clemency actions invalid.
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At the center of the political fight is the autopen itself, a mechanical device that holds a real pen and replicates an individual’s handwriting with precision.
Biden relied heavily on the tool over the course of his presidency, signing 162 executive orders and countless memoranda, proclamations, and notices.
In 2005, during the George W. Bush administration, the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel reviewed whether presidents could legally use the autopen.
It concluded that “the President need not personally perform the physical act of affixing his signature to a bill to sign it within the meaning of Article I, Section 7.”
Trump argued Biden’s situation was fundamentally different because the former president allegedly did not approve the signatures.
Trump had publicly mocked Biden’s use of the autopen throughout his first term, at one point replacing a White House portrait of Biden with an image of the device as a pointed jab.
By June, he formally ordered an investigation into the Biden administration’s reliance on the machine, accusing officials of orchestrating a “conspiracy” to allow unapproved signatures to bypass presidential decision making and mask “Biden’s cognitive decline.”
The order cited numerous executive actions, including judicial appointments and pardons, as examples where “serious doubts” existed regarding Biden’s role.
It claimed that if advisers “secretly used the mechanical signature pen,” many of the decisions could be invalid.
Biden rejected the allegations in a July statement, calling them false and “nothing more than a distraction by Donald Trump and Congressional Republicans.”
“Let me be clear: I made the decisions during my presidency. I made the decisions about the pardons, executive orders, legislation, and proclamations. Any suggestion that I didn’t is ridiculous and false,” he insisted.
Attorney General Pam Bondi announced in October that her office was “reviewing the Biden administration’s reported use of autopen for pardons,” signaling potential further scrutiny.
Although Trump already rescinded nearly 80 Biden-era executive orders in January, additional actions appear to remain valid because they have not yet been formally evaluated.
Pressure intensified in October when the Republican-led House Oversight Committee demanded the Justice Department conduct a full review of every executive order issued under Biden.
The committee later released a detailed report describing what it called a “flawed process” within the Biden White House, comparing the decision making to a “presidential pardon game of telephone.”
According to the report, investigators determined that Biden’s aides “coordinated a cover-up of the president’s diminishing faculties,” suggesting that many decisions attributed to Biden were handled informally by staff members.
They described the procedure as “lax,” and declared that the “clemency actions taken in the final days of the Biden presidency” were the “most flagrant.”
