The AutoPen Controversy

[Byrd]

Presidents have been using autopen for a long time.  Trump used it in his previous administration, for example.

[UltraBudgie]

True Byrd. It's synecdoche in search of a legal basis. The implication being that Joe Biden himself was an "auto-pen", a brainless order-signing automata controlled by his puppet-masters, and not a real President at all. Thus anything Trump doesn't like that he did is invalid. You see, other Presidents weren't tools, they used the auto-pen as a tool, responsibly. Ahem.

Anyway yeah it's BS. But then again so was Biden, so it's a mudpit talking-point.

[theshadowknows]

Presidents have used autopen since at least JFK. It's common practice. Biden is the boogeyman right now. Before it was Obama. The Republicans need someone to demonize.

[RickyD]

Let me guess without reading past your first paragraph...the only thing he legitimately signed was his sons pardon...

[ArMaP]

Let me guess without reading past your first paragraph...the only thing he legitimately signed was his sons pardon...

Wrong guess, apparently all his pardons were signed with AutoPen.