Create accountLogin

Recent searches

No recent searches

Search options

Only available when logged in.
mastodon.world is one of the many independent Mastodon servers you can use to participate in the fediverse.
Generic Mastodon server for anyone to use.

Administered by:

Server stats:

12K
active users

mastodon.world: AboutStatusProfiles directoryPrivacy policy

Mastodon: AboutGet the appKeyboard shortcutsView source codev4.3.6

#autopen

6 posts6 participants1 post today
Public
Orange Mussolini

Skunk hairdo Gabby says something it has to be true.Just like me. I even have my own place to say truths. Only the far out left field media lies. Hottie rebels were attacked right on schedule. Nothing to see here. Is America great yet?
#autoPen #Houthis #rebels #war #Europe
#Justice #signal #signalGate #UnitedStates #classified
#disgrace
#maga
#1stFelon
#America
#USA
#president #lies
#socialmedia
#socialSecurity
#unitedStates #Trump
#WhiteHouse #dictatorship
#dictator #felon47

Continued thread
Public
Nonilex

The confusion over #Trump’s signature prompted some speculation that perhaps the document was signed using an #autopen, a machine that uses real ink to duplicate a human signature. The #DOJ has said the autopen is a legal way to sign official presidential documents, but Trump has ridiculed the practice as inauthentic [& Trump proclaimed Biden’s pardons were invalid for its use].

#FactCheck#TrumpLies#law
Public
Maxi 10x 💉

Das ist die Signiermaschine #Autopen, laut Spiegel seit 100 Jahren üblich. Wie wird sowas programmiert?

youtube.com/shorts/XdNzCHmeSDY

Anlass: Trump ist drauf gekommen, dass Biden damit viele Begnadigungen unterzeichnet hat und beabsichtigt nun, sie für ungültig zu erklären.

spiegel.de/ausland/joe-biden-v (S+)

youtube.comBefore you continue to YouTube
Public
LilMikeSF

#Constitutional experts balk at #DJT #unprecedented Presidential bluster that #Biden #pardons signed by #Autopen are ‘void’ after a #TruthSocial post late Sunday night . The all caps #socialmedia outburst announcied that according to #DJT President Joe Biden’s final January 2025 pardons are moot, implying January 6th Committee members like Adam Schiff & Liz Cheney's as well as Anthony Fauci's #PresidentialPardons are invalid.

At the time of pre-pardoning his relatives #Biden stated “My family has been subjected to unrelenting attacks and threats, motivated solely by a desire to hurt me — the worst kind of partisan politics,” he said in his last statement as president. “Unfortunately, I have no reason to believe these attacks will end.”

Current occupant of the #WhiteHouse says Biden’s preemptive pardons are “are hereby declared VOID, VACANT, AND OF NO FURTHER FORCE OR EFFECT, because of the fact that they were done by Autopen.”

According to legal scholars the executive power to retroactively revoke pardons by previous office holder has never been tried by any prior President..

tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld

Continued thread
Public *
AnarchoNinaAnalyzes

All of the above then brings us to last night, when Trump attempted to declare all of former US president Joe Biden's outgoing pardons "void" based on the purported use of an autopen, and treating longstanding winger conspiracy arguments about why certain presidential orders signed by Democrats (and seemingly *only* Democrats) aren't legal because using said autopen means the president didn't officially sign them into law; a nonsensical theory that has no legitimate basis in law, and owes more to schoolyard games of Simon Says than any sort of official rule or policy.

theguardian.com/us-news/2025/m

Trump makes unsupported claim Biden pardons are ‘void’ as he used autopen

"Trump made his claim in a post to his social media platform that used his abusive nicknames for Biden and members of the House January 6 committee, writing: “The ‘Pardons; that Sleepy Joe Biden gave to the Unselect Committee of Political Thugs, and many others, are hereby declared VOID, VACANT, AND OF NO FURTHER FORCE OR EFFECT, because of the fact that they were done by Autopen.

“In other words, Joe Biden did not sign them but, more importantly, he did not know anything about them!”

I'll be honest in saying that I don't think this is a great article by The Guardian because it spends way too much time proving that Trump's autopen argument is "wrong," and that there is nothing abnormal about the president automatically producing his or her signature as part of their official duties. After all, being wrong about the law has done little to stop Trump's fascist agenda so far, and given that this is a conspiracy argument that has repeatedly been deployed by the ultra-right reactionary "fringe" of the larger Republican coalition against former US president (and Democrat) Barack Obama, a simple one paragraph debunking and a greater focus on why this conspiracy argument has resurfaced now that this same ultra-right reactionary "fringe" has become the dominant force in GOP politics, would likely have been more productive. Furthermore, the Guardian repeatedly frames this as a "claim" by Trump, when Downmarket Mussolini's Truth Social post at least, clearly indicates that the president is trying to void Biden's pardons by fiat, over social media, in a very direct sense. Legally speaking Trump doesn't have the power to do that just because he's president, and social media posts aren't legal edicts, but that just brings us back to the fact that Trump being wrong about the law and trying to rewrite it via public proclamations against his enemies, hasn't really stopped him from turning his animosities into official policies so far during his second term in office.

Given Trump's own words as reprinted here however, it is abundantly clear that he's pursuing the autopen argument to allow himself to target members of the January 6th Committee that investigated his 2021 coup attempt, which in turn ties into both Downmarket Mussolini's quest to punish officials that brought accusations or charges against him, and his efforts to seize control of the Justice Department and use it as an instrument of authoritarian vengeance for those (completely legal) activities. Here too we find the previous pattern by which the regime turns unreality into official action occurring once again; the Heritage Foundation, the same fundie fascist thinktank that wrote the Project 2025 document we can now confirm lies at the heart of Trump's fundie fascist agenda, produces a report attacking the validity of Biden's pardons and pushing the autopen conspiracy argument, Trump then immediately repeats those claims to reporters on Air Force One before saying the courts will have to decide but he thinks the pardons are "null and void," and then early the very next morning Trump attempts to literally void the pardons via fiat in a Truth Social post with no mention of courts whatsoever. At this point, all we're waiting for is the larger Trump regime to begin acting as if Der Führer's ranty argument has the force of law and the unreality cycle of transformational autocracy is complete.

Can president Trump actually get away with this scheme? I don't have the slightest idea, but the aggressiveness with which he's pushing the autopen argument, and the speed with which his larger political movement has already laid the groundwork to give it a go, strongly suggests that Trump isn't just ranting and he means to actually turn this aggrieved conspiracy bullshit into a very real attempt to persecute and neutralize his political enemies through the force of law.

The Guardian · Trump makes unsupported claim Biden pardons are ‘void’ as he used autopenBy Martin Pengelly
#Trump#Fascism#Biden
Public
McDonald_69

Were Biden's pardons signed with autopen?

President Trump has said "many" pardons issued by Joe Biden are void because the former president signed them with "autopen" - a device which reproduces a person's signature - rather than by hand.

Trump did not provide evidence for his claim - which was posted on Truth Social.
bbc.com/news/articles/cdxqk1x0

Close-up of President Joe Biden signing a pardon while on Air Force One. The BBC Verify logo appears in the top corner.
www.bbc.comWere Biden's pardons signed with autopen?President Trump claims 'many' of Biden's pardons are void because they were signed automatically and not by hand.
#Trump#Biden#autopen
Public *
Scott 🇮🇱🇺🇦🗽

Forget #autopen: even President Fragile Ego Tinyhands knows that's bullshit. It's a distraction. This administration is:

➡️ Killing children and adults in the 100s of 1000s by terminating #USAID's work with #AIDS patients overseas

➡️ Turning its back on America's allies while cuddling up to #Russia, a throwback #fascist regime with expansionist ambitions and #nuclearweapons

➡️ Abandoning heroes who courageously worked with American troops in #afghanistan leaving them to die at the hands of the #Taliban

➡️ Stranding #refugees who'd already been promised a place in America after deep #security and #medical vetting, even pulling them off of planes as they headed to the US

➡️ Treating #veterans as disposable while destroying the administrative state (about 1/3 of whose employees are vets) that keeps us all safe

(1/) >>>

#Amerika #RedDon #immigration #SIVs #ruleoflaw #fascism #impeach47 #deportElon

(Edited to repair typos)

Public
Erik Jonker

By Steve Vladek
"" I could write up why there’s no constitutional problem with the President using an auto-pen to sign official documents—or I could just post the 30-page 2005 opinion by George W. Bush’s Office of Legal Counsel that explains why in lots of detail."
#Trump #autopen #signature
bsky.app/profile/stevevladeck.

justice.gov/file/494411/dl?inl

Bluesky Social · Steve Vladeck (@stevevladeck.bsky.social)I could write up why there’s no constitutional problem with the President using an auto-pen to sign official documents—or I could just post the 30-page 2005 opinion by George W. Bush’s Office of Legal Counsel that explains why in lots of detail. I choose the latter: https://www.justice.gov/file/494411/dl?inline
Public
Orange Mussolini

I don’t know who this auto pen guy is. But he shouldn’t be signing any documents at all. who gave him authority to sign documents? I use a big beautiful sharpie. It is great. It makes great signatures.
Is America great yet?
#autoPen #statueOfLiberty #France #Europe
#cyberTruck
#greenCard #arrest #ice #nazi #gestapo #arrested #torture
#Justice
#disgrace
#maga
#1stFelon
#America
#USA
#president
#socialmedia
#socialSecurity
#unitedStates #Trump
#WhiteHouse #dictatorship
#dictator

ExploreLive feeds
About