While meeting with German Chancellor Friedrich Merz in the Oval Office, President Trump was asked for his reaction to former President Biden's criticism of concerns to probing the use of the autopen and his mental acuity while in office.
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00:00your predecessor dismissed your auto pen investigation he said he made all the decisions
00:06during his presidency i'm curious your reaction to his dismissal well look the auto pen i think
00:11is the big scandal outside of the rigged election of 2020 i think the biggest scandal of the last
00:17many years is the auto pen and who's using it i happen to think i know okay because i'm here
00:23and i'm not a big auto pen person fortunately i'm glad i'm very glad it's an easy way out
00:28but it's uh it's a very bad thing very dangerous you know i sign important documents usually when
00:34they put documents in front of you they're important uh even if you're signing ambassadorships or and i
00:40consider that important i think it's inappropriate you have somebody that's devoting four years of
00:44their life or more to being an ambassador i think you really deserve that person deserves to get a
00:50real signature not an auto pen signature and i can tell auto pen easily i can look at it
00:55uh like two little pinholes from pulling the paper right you always see the pinholes
01:01yeah it's real easy to tell about auto pen i think it's very disrespectful to people when they get an
01:07auto pen signature outside auto pen to me are used when thousands of letters come in from young people
01:13all over the country and you want to get them back and you know people use auto pens for that
01:17to send uh a little signature at the bottom of a letter where you have thousands of them we get
01:24thousands of of letters a week and it's not possible to you know do i'd like to do it myself but you can't
01:31do it to me that's where auto pens start and stop but i don't think i don't i i'm sure that he didn't know
01:39many of the things look he was never for open borders he was never for transgender for everybody he was
01:45never for men playing in women's sports i mean he changed i mean all of these things that
01:50that changed so radically i don't think he had any idea that what was frankly i said it during the
01:56debate and i say it now uh he didn't have much of an idea what was going on he shouldn't be i mean
02:02essentially whoever used the auto pen was the president and that is uh wrong it's illegal it's so bad
02:10and it's so disrespectful to our country
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