Autopen - a regular tool, but a Trump attack line

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38% : " Such rulings do little to curb Trump, or Project 2025 -- the right-wing think-tank group that has pushed the autopen as an attack line.
18% : The eye-catching autopen issue also serves to soak up attention as Trump is accused of a brazen push to expand his own powers.
6% : The legal basis for his argument appears uncertain, but Donald Trump has sought to drum up outrage over his predecessor Joe Biden's supposed use of autopen to sign presidential pardons and other documents.
2% : Trump said on social media on Monday that Biden's pardons are void because Biden "did not sign them but, more importantly, he did not know anything about them!" That followed up on last week when Trump said Biden "was grossly incompetent.
1% : In his last days in office, Biden, now 82, issued a series of notable pardons for people targeted by Trump -- including Biden's own son, lawmakers who probed Trump, a military general who had criticized Trump and the country's top Covid expert.

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