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00:00Donald Trump voids all documents and pardons signed by Joe Biden's AutoPen in fresh attack on former Prez.
00:08Donald Trump is terminating all documents and pardons his predecessor Joe Biden signed off on using his AutoPen.
00:15Before he left office in January, Biden issued several pardons, including for family members, but Trump says he's now revoked them.
00:23AutoPen crackdown.
00:24The president repeatedly targeted Biden's use of the AutoPen to sign official documents during his time in the Oval Office, believing his aides were making decisions on his behalf due to his fragile mental state.
00:36The AutoPen is a device used to replicate a person's signature with precision, typically for high volume or ceremonial documents.
00:43But in a typically defiant boast on truth social, Trump doubled down on his previous threats to void all documents Biden signed off on with the pen.
00:51Long held suspicions over device.
00:55Biden's health deteriorated during his final months as president while he was signing off documents.
01:00He wrote any and all documents, proclamations, executive orders, memorandums or contracts signed by order of the now infamous and unauthorized AutoPen within the administration of Joseph R.
01:13Biden Jr.
01:14are hereby null, void and of no further force or effect.
01:19Presidents may legally undo executive orders signed by their predecessors, including pardons.
01:24However, there is no legal mechanism to retract clemency after it is granted.
01:29Biden signed 162 executive orders during his tenure.
01:34Notorious pardons to family members.
01:35Among the most controversial were the AutoPen signed pardons of Dr.
01:40Anthony Fauci, General Mark Milley, and members of the January 6th committee.
01:45He also pardoned family members on his last full day in office.
01:49The Democrats only hand signed pardon during his final months in office was also his most pivotal.
01:54The order signed for his recovering cocaine addict son, Hunter.
01:57Despite Trump's accusations, Biden claims he personally authorized every single pardon and commutation where the AutoPen was used.
02:06Last month, the Republican-led House Oversight Committee asked the Justice Department to carry out a review of every single executive order made by Biden.
02:15It released a lengthy report which described a deeply flawed process and stated,
02:19The committee has found that President Biden's aides coordinated a cover-up of the president's diminishing faculties while calling the clemency actions in the final days of the Biden presidency the most flagrant.
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