According to a New York Post report, former President Joe Biden used an ‘autopen signature’ for many official White House documents, including executive orders. The revelation, uncovered by the Heritage Foundation’s Oversight Project, raises fresh questions about Biden’s awareness.
“I am demanding the DOJ investigate whether President Biden’s cognitive decline allowed unelected staff to push through radical policy without his knowing approval,” Republican Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey said.
“If true, these executive orders, pardons, and all other actions are unconstitutional and legally void.”
From The New York Post:
One of the autopen-signed orders from Biden was an August 2022 directive meant to safeguard abortion access during emergency situations, Heritage said.
Another was a December 2024 order to close government offices Jan. 9, 2025, to honor late President Jimmy Carter.
The Post conducted a random brief scan of about three dozen signatures of executive orders in the Federal Register from President Trump, former President Barack Obama and Biden at various times in their presidencies.
All three men’s different signatures did not appear to change, although The Post’s review was briefer and less comprehensive than the Heritage Foundation’s.
Autopen signatures are produced by machine instead of being done by hand. Scores of presidents dating back to at least Harry Truman are believed to have leaned on the modern autopen.
“We gathered every document we could find with Biden’s signature over the course of his presidency,” the Oversight Project said last week.
“All used the same autopen signature except for the announcement that the former President was dropping out of the race last year.”
“There are profound reasons to suspect that Biden’s staff and political allies exploited his mental decline to issue purported presidential orders without his knowing approval,” Bailey wrote in a letter to the DOJ watchdog last week.
Bailey cited House Speaker Mike Johnson’s (R-LA) accusations that Biden privately forgot about executive action he had taken on natural gas during a conversation the two had.
Johnson recounted the story to The Free Press’ Bari Weiss.
