President Donald Trump on Wednesday said former President Joe Biden’s reliance on an autopen to sign pardons, commutations and legislation ranks among “the biggest scandals in American history,” arguing that the matter deserves greater public attention than the long-running controversy over Jeffrey Epstein’s files. Trump told reporters he wants the Justice Department to investigate who controlled the device during Biden’s term and suggested that some Republicans had been “duped” into focusing on the Epstein documents instead. He added that Attorney General Pam Bondi would be free to release additional Epstein records but insisted that the autopen episode is more consequential. The White House has already opened an internal review into the autopen’s use, according to officials cited by Fox News and RT. The National Archives and Records Administration has turned over about 27,000 documents for examination, and investigators expect to sift through more than one million files to determine whether any formal policy governed the machine and whether it was employed to mask Biden’s decision-making or health. Republican lawmakers have launched parallel inquiries, saying they will seek testimony from former Biden aides once Congress returns from its recess. The Justice Department has not commented publicly on whether it will broaden the probe.
President Trump said people should be focusing on former President Biden's use of the autopen, rather than the secret files of Jeffrey Epstein. https://t.co/3a84GTfd0J
As pressure mounts on his DOJ to release the Epstein files, @realDonaldTrump says the real scandal the media should be focused on is “the autopen.” https://t.co/Xs2FVC3ld1
Trump says Biden autopen is bigger scandal than Epstein files https://t.co/UN9wk4LmV3 https://t.co/ZCBQP2Kybm