Trump says all orders signed by Biden with autopen are ‘terminated’

Donald Trump said on Friday that all documents signed by autopen under Joe Biden were “terminated”, in a legally uncertain move as the US president escalated a favourite attack line against his predecessor.

Trump has often sought to drum up outrage over Biden’s alleged use of autopen to sign pardons, executive orders and other documents – accusing Biden of being too senile to govern while in power.

“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 said on social media.

“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.”

Various autopen systems have been used by previous presidents, but Trump has said their use under Biden proves the then president was mentally incapacitated and not in control of the White House.

Biden was 82 when he left office, while Trump is 79 and due to leave office in January 2029.