President Trump wrote on social media Sunday night that he no longer considers the pardon allowed to be valid for members of the bipartisan House committee that investigated the attack on the Capitol on January 6, 2021, and other people Trump considers his political enemy for signing with the Autoopen device.
The constitution or case law does not have the authority to revoke a pardon. Also, there are no exceptions to pardons signed by Autoopen. But Trump's claims to embrace unfounded right-wing conspiracy theories about former President Joseph R. Biden Jr. was a new escalation of his anti-democratic rhetoric. What was implicit in his post was Trump's belief that the laws of the country should be anything he orders them. It was a reminder that his appetite for revenge was not being protected.
“The 'pardons' that sleepy Joe Biden gave to the non-selection committee of political thugs, and many others, by this, have been declared blank and vacant, and no further power or effect, due to the fact that it was done by the autopen.” “In other words, Joe Biden did not sign them, but more importantly, he knew nothing about them!”
Using an autopen is usually an uncontroversial aspect of governance. When former President Barack Obama was traveling through Europe in 2011 and wanted to sign a law that said Congress extended the Patriot Act by four more years, it was first used to sign the bill to the president's direction.
After Trump posted about his autopen and pardon on Sunday night, an Air Force Traveler Pool reporter asked him to give details, and he seemed to be temporarily returning from the extraordinary ideas he had just posted.
He was asked that other Biden signed as president using an autopen would also be considered invalid.
“That's not my decision,” Trump said. “It depends on the court, but I'll say they're invalid because I'm sure Biden had no idea that it was happening.”
In the final hours of Biden's presidency, he gave his relatives a wave of preemptive pardons. All members of the House Committee that investigated the January 6 attack on Congress, including Liz Cheney, the daughter of former MP and former Vice President Dick Cheney. and some of Trump's most well-known enemies, including General Mark A. Millie and Dr. Anthony S. Fauci.
The ramp-prolonged online debate and theorizing about the use of the Biden administration's autopen, supported by right-wing experts, mainly proposed a conspiracy theory that aided Biden. The post pinned to Trump's true social profile is a meme depicting framed photos of automatic pens hanging on the wall where the portrait of President 46 should be. (Elon Musk reposted the meme to his 229 million followers, adding bull emojis and crying laughing emojis.)
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