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

TIME

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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00:00First, on the president's post overnight, saying that he is — that the pardons that

00:04were issued by President Biden preemptively to members of the January 6th committee,

00:09that they're now null and void. Have attorneys here at the White House told President Trump

00:13that he has the legal authority to undo a pardon simply because it was signed by auto pen, as he

00:19said? The president was begging the question that I think a lot of journalists in this room should

00:24be asking about whether or not the former president of the United States, who I think we can all

00:29finally agree, was cognitively impaired. I know it took people some time to finally admit that,

00:34but we all know that to be true, as evidenced by his disastrous debate performance against

00:39President Trump during the campaign. I digress on that. But the president was raising the point that

00:45did the president even know about these pardons? Was his legal signature used without his consent

00:52or knowledge? And that's not just the president or me raising those questions, Kaitlan. According

00:57to the New York Post, there are Biden officials from the previous White House who raised those

01:01questions and wondered if the president was even consulted about his legally binding signature

01:07being signed onto documents. And so I think it's a question that everybody in this room

01:11should be looking into, because certainly that would propose perhaps criminal or illegal behavior

01:18if staff members were signing the President of the United States autograph without his consent.

01:22Is on the record talking about issuing preemptive pardons to these people?

01:27But was he aware of the of his signature being used on every single pardon? That's a question

01:31you should ask the Biden White House. Is there any evidence on that that he wasn't aware of it?

01:35You're a reporter. You should find out.

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