Donald Trump Sends Warning To Enemies
As He Says Biden Pardons Void
Newsweek,
by
Ewan Palmer
Original Article
Posted By: minuteman,
3/17/2025 7:17:50 AM
President Donald Trump has said that Joe Biden's 11th-hour pardons of members of Congress who investigated the January 6 attack are "void, vacant and of no further effect." a post on Truth Social, Trump said that the pardons issued by his predecessor are not valid because they were allegedly signed using an autopen—a device that replicates a person's signature.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
Quigley 3/17/2025 7:31:36 AM (No. 1915813)
I have never experienced disappointment with Trump. He brings it.
To quote the Inestimable Ralph Cramden: "Hardee har har har. Hardee har har har."
Look for the crevices, cockroaches.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
felixcat 3/17/2025 7:39:15 AM (No. 1915814)
Obviously the Founders who wrote the Constitution and voted on its passage never imagined something as an "auto-pen". That any signatures by the President of the US would be in his original hand. And they could never have imagined the amount of routine correspondence that a President would sign such as congratulatory letters to some sports team or Girl Scout troop - obviously nothing legally binding by such correspondence and therefore, no original in person signature required. Now a pardon on the other hand...
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
billa57 3/17/2025 7:39:21 AM (No. 1915815)
No more rocks to hide under. The end is nigh for you. All that was hidden will be revealed. Best to turn states evidence if you have something.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Wizard of is 3/17/2025 7:46:05 AM (No. 1915818)
This Newsweek article is informative but quite biased. The issue is explained well enough by pointing out that the Biden administration is alleged to have used an autopen to sign pardons, executive orders and perhaps legislation. But it completely ignores the real issue which is that President Biden almost certainly did not authorize the auto-signing of those documents. The author presents the autopen as some device used to sign “large volumes” of documents. But once the courts get involved the real issue will be, did the president “knowingly” sign these very consequential documents and if not, who did and is this to be permitted?
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
chagrined 3/17/2025 7:55:08 AM (No. 1915824)
Imagine that. Extreme far left wing Newsweak using the term "enemies" when describing the crooked cabal who deserves prosecution more than many an illegal alien gang member. Stuff like this never happens!
I guess they really are enemies. . .to President Trump, the United States of America and the American people. Then again, I don't think that is quite the way Newsweak wanted it to be viewed, but it's true nonetheless.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Lazyman 3/17/2025 7:57:15 AM (No. 1915825)
"Biden issued last-minute preemptive pardons to members of the January 6 committee to prevent Trump from seeking "revenge" against them."
It's not revenge to go after criminals.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
3XALADY 3/17/2025 8:19:07 AM (No. 1915832)
I am 80 years old and my signature is nowhere near what it was, even five years ago. And each one is a little different. Documents I saw with Biden's signature, they were all perfect, one after the other. Then add in Speaker's comments about Old Joe not knowing he had signed the bill regarding the sale of natural gas. That old man didn't have a clue what he was doing for at least two of the four years he served as pResident.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Namma 3/17/2025 8:24:49 AM (No. 1915835)
Wonder if this is the real reason Hunter moved to South Africa !
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
laurenc 3/17/2025 8:28:12 AM (No. 1915838)
That sound you hear in the distance is Dem heads exploding.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Strike3 3/17/2025 8:36:54 AM (No. 1915843)
Okay, Biden family, Anthony Fauci, military and intel officers, judges, attorneys general, government officials who abused power, now is the time to start running scared. You stuck your necks out way too far, right into the guillotine. Sucks to be you.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Calvinesq 3/17/2025 8:37:08 AM (No. 1915844)
As much as I would like to see those pardons voided, I think it’s unlikely. Electronic signatures are mostly binding in many types of business transactions. Further, it’s not at all clear that pardons must be in writing at all. I hate to lower the excitement here, but this is likely not going very far. I hope I’m wrong.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Dodge Boy 3/17/2025 8:41:31 AM (No. 1915846)
Fauci, Lizzard, Benie Thompson, Kinzie, Pencil Neck, Nanie, Millie, Brennan, et al, don't go far now hear? You appear to have a date with the judicial system.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Jesuslover54 3/17/2025 8:48:18 AM (No. 1915849)
Thomas Jefferson usually equivalent of an auto pen to make copies of his original letters and writings. They were never intended to be used as originals.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Pammie 3/17/2025 8:54:29 AM (No. 1915850)
To Reply #1: Help me understand why you have never experienced disappointment with President Trump until the pseudo Biden signature aka the two autopen signatures. GEEZE!
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Alecto2 3/17/2025 9:11:32 AM (No. 1915856)
#14 You misread what #1 wrote. Try again and read it slowly.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Maggie2u 3/17/2025 9:33:09 AM (No. 1915862)
Article title...'Donald Trump Sends Warning To Enemies As He Says Biden Pardons Void'
Right off the bat there is a lie in the article. Trump isn't warning 'his enemies', he's warning those who committed crimes against our country that they aren't going to get away with what they did. They are criminals and deserve to face justice.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
ARKfamily 3/17/2025 9:40:36 AM (No. 1915867)
#11, this may tie into the awareness or cognitive abilities of the person signing a document. What is also of concern is the type of documents that can be used with auto pens and what documents should not be used wit an autopen. . .
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
Safari Man 3/17/2025 9:50:48 AM (No. 1915875)
How can you issue a pardon for someone when you cannot remember breakfast and cannot understand what's going on around you enough to even wield a pen.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
dbdiva 3/17/2025 9:59:28 AM (No. 1915883)
I always believed neither the pardons, laws, or EOs biden "signed" were valid because he was always an illegitimate "president".
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
LC Chihuahua 3/17/2025 10:09:55 AM (No. 1915889)
For four years under Biden, our government resembled a dictatorship more than a representative government. Giv'em hell, Donald! They have earned it.
When I was in Boy Scouts, I used to go door to door selling raffle tickets and other stuff. To sell things, I required the buyer's signature. Every now and then I would have to deal with an elderly person who was too weak to sign their name. I wonder if the same thing could be said about Joe Biden. It would be further proof showing how he was unfit for office.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
WI Cynic 3/17/2025 11:45:08 AM (No. 1915959)
I don't think PDJT can reverse what has already happened. I personally think that Biden was mostly unaware of what was being done around him, but actually proving this would be impossible. I don't think Biden was mentally competent to be President at all, and that most of what he did should have no force in law, but that's me.
I think that PDJT is using the troll maneuver to bring the issue into focus, and to force some legal action that will define when the autopen can and cannot be used by the President's staff. Is it allowable on bills and executive orders? Is the President's verbal go-ahead enough? Does the President have to be physically present when the device is used?
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
Sully 3/17/2025 12:29:30 PM (No. 1916007)
Pres Trump has stated that it's not the aotopen that's the problem but who wielded it that matters. And it wasn't Joe Biden auto signing those documents bc he was not able to function at that level.
WH staff don't have the power of the pardon. Neither does 1st lady Mrs potus. Neither does 1st felon Hunter.
Special Counsel Robert Hur has already testified to Bidens diminished capacity. It is the only thing saving him from charges.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
franco 3/17/2025 1:37:23 PM (No. 1916068)
#21: You may be right. I've already said elsewhere that *when* this thing gets to the USSC, we can expect the swingers, Roberts and Barrett, to join the three liberal loons in a decision against PDJT. However, I'm sanguine about it happening now, and the reason is the one often quoted about lawfare: The process is the punishment.
Imagine, if you will, the amount of money -- personal wealth, since DOGE has cut off the flow of USAID funds to the NGOs that would otherwise pay -- that will have to be spent by these people to avoid an otherwise certain long-term appointment with a federal prison. If a dozen or so of these people go bankrupt the way Gen. Flynn was forced into penury, then the whole process will be worth it for the future deterrence effect it has on swamp dwellers.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
bighambone 3/17/2025 2:31:27 PM (No. 1916122)
Well by some unidentified Biden staffer using an auto-pen to write Biden’s signature on those documents, it is clear that Biden himself did not sign the documents into force or law. If you were to ask Biden about all that, it is clear that if he was an h9nest ma; that Biden would reply that he could not remember!
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
ldb51 3/17/2025 4:10:23 PM (No. 1916176)
It seems to me that there were a number of "public" EO signings by Biden early in his term. At the same time, the Oversight Project group appeared to say the other day that virtually all of the documents they found had clearly been autopenned (i.e., all signatures were perfect overlays), except for the non-candidacy announcement by Biden.
If that's the case, shouldn't it be easy to find some of the early "public" doc's and discover that they were, in fact, autopen-signed at some other instance, and not signed in person as faked in the public exhibitions? That would be top-drawer evidence that the whole signature-autopen tactic was ginned up from day one to commit fraud on the American people, and that some führer/staffer has been playing fast and loose with the Presidential office for much of the prior 4 years. That includes the umpteen "pardon" signatures that were magically signed in Washington while Biden was kicking back on the beach vaca.
Mr. (Dr./Mrs?) unnamed staffer needs to be hauled up by his unmentionables in front of Congress to do some singing.
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
DVC 3/17/2025 7:45:03 PM (No. 1916310)
Not actually signed by Biden....seems pretty clear that they are invalid unless actually signed by him.
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