President Donald Trump revealed Thursday that a staff member in the Biden White House who used the now-infamous autopen did not take his orders from former President Joe Biden.
The use of the autopen in the Biden White House is linked to debate over whether Biden actually knew what was being signed in his name, particularly a slew of pardons toward the end of the Biden presidency.
Trump was asked about the autopen scandal Thursday during a news conference with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer.
“Yeah, it’s just gotten worse from their standpoint,” Trump said, according to a video posted to X.
“The people that used it, in particular one person, was never told by Biden to do it, only spoke to Biden twice, and that was just talking about the weather, not talking about any order. And he was taking orders from people other than Joe Biden. Joe Biden wasn’t giving those orders,” Trump said.