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# Trump Claims Biden's Pardons of Jan. 6 Committee Members are "Void" Because He Signed with Autopen

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## Video: Trump Claims Biden's Pardons of Jan. 6 Committee Members are "Void" Because He Signed with Autopen

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_Published 2025-03-17. President Donald Trump on Monday claimed that pardons recently signed and issued by then-President Joe Biden to lawmakers and staff on the special congressional committee that investigated the riot at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, were void._


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## Transcript

The president's post overnight, saying that he is that the pardons that were issued by President Biden preemptively to to members of the January 6th committee, that they're now null and void. Have attorneys here at the white House told President Trump that he has the legal authority to undo a pardon simply because it was signed by Autopen as as he said, the. President was begging the question that I think a lot of journalists in this room should be asking about whether or not the former president of the United States, who I think we can all finally agree was cognitively impaired. I know it took people some time to finally admit that, but we all know that to be true.

As evidenced by his disastrous debate performance against President Trump during the campaign. I digress on that. But the president was raising the point that did the president even know about these pardons? Was his legal signature used without his consent or knowledge? And that's not just the president or me raising those questions, Caitlin. According to the New York Post, there are Biden officials from the previous white House who raised those questions and wondered if the president was even consulted about his legally binding signature being signed onto documents. And so I think it's a question that everybody in this room should be looking into, because certainly that would propose perhaps criminal or illegal behavior if staff members were signing the president of the United States autograph without his consent.

Is on the record talking about issuing preemptive pardons to these people. But was he aware of the of his signature being used on every single pardon? That's a question you should ask the Biden. Is there any evidence on that that he wasn't aware of it? You're a reporter. You should find out.

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