With defeat imminent during the Battle of Berlin at the end of World War II in Europe, Magda Goebbels and her husband poisoned their six children with a cyanide compound before committing suicide in the Reich Chancellery garden
It’s not overweight Koreans or former golf caddies doing insane postings, nor is it even Mango Mussolini. It’s not an illegal order if the Autopen produces a legal order, just ask Trump.
Trump hung a photo of an autopen instead of Biden in the White House’s new presidential gallery.
Since trump wants to forget he was the one who granted the DC shooter asylum.....perhaps HE used the autopen????
Why does Trump keep bringing this up?
Biden’s use of the autopen has been a favourite attack of Trump for a while. In March, Trump claimed without evidence that Biden’s pardons were “void, vacant and of no further force and effect” because they were signed with an autopen. Throughout his campaign trail and into his presidency, Trump has also repeatedly claimed that Biden’s cognitive state hindered his presidential duties.
Earlier this year, Trump hung a photo of an autopen instead of Biden in the White House’s new presidential gallery.
The autopen claim has been heavily pushed by the Oversight Project, an extension of the Trump-allied rightwing thinktank Heritage Foundation, which released a report into Biden’s autopen use. “Whoever controlled the autopen controlled the presidency,” it claimed in a post earlier this year. However, the report did not include any evidence that Biden’s aides conspired to implement policies without his approvals.
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Trump says he's canceling all Biden orders signed using an autopen"
Any document signed" by Biden with an autopen "is hereby terminated,"
ERGO AUTOPEN SUM
The automated signature machine has been a tool used by presidents at the White House for decades.
Here is what it is, what we know about Biden’s use and why Trump continuously brings it up.
What is an autopen?
The autopen, which was patented in the US in 1803, is a robotic device that replicates signatures of a person using real ink. The autopen is often used to sign materials in bulk.
According to a 2005 guidance from the justice department, the “president need not personally perform the physical act of affixing his signature to a bill he approves and decides to sign in order for the bill to become law”.
Instead, the president “may sign a bill … by directing a subordinate to affix the president’s signature to such a bill, for example by autopen”.
Have other presidents used it?
Yes, numerous presidents have used the autopen, dating back to Thomas Jefferson, who used an early version of the device, according to the Shappell Manuscript Foundation. Harry Truman was rumoured to have used the pen, as well as Gerald Ford and Lyndon B Johnson, who allowed the device to be photographed in the White House.
Other presidents include John F Kennedy as well as Barack Obama, who used the device to sign various legislation including the Patriot Act and an appropriations bill while overseas.
In March, Trump said he had also used the autopen for what he described as “very unimportant papers”.
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not written by Trump but by an LLM? #RogueAutoPen
