Trump has a new target in his campaign against Biden: The autopen

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

59% : " Trump has often made a major display of signing documents.
56% : While Bush never used an autopen to sign legislation, Barack Obama utilized it a number of times, including in 2011 when he was in France and authorized an extension of the Patriot Act.
55% : Trump on Monday afternoon told reporters that he has used an autopen "only for very unimportant papers," such as when people write in and request a response.
37% : "It looked like we had an autopen for a president and we would've been better off if we had, probably," Trump told reporters around midnight Sunday as he flew back from Florida.
33% : Or is this somebody in an office, maybe a radical left lunatic, just signing whatever that person wants?" Trump also said the documents Biden did not physically sign were "null and void" -- potentially setting up a legal battle even though a number of reviews have concluded that the autopen signings are just as legitimate as ones where a handheld pen is applied to paper.
32% : "That'll be up to a court, but I would say that they're null and void," Trump said.
27% : The pardons, Trump wrote in a Truth Social post, were "hereby declared VOID, VACANT, AND OF NO FURTHER FORCE OF EFFECT, because of the fact that they were done by Autopen.
23% : While conservatives have pointed to similarities in the signatures, it has not been confirmed that Biden used an autopen on the pardons Trump has focused on.
20% : Trump recently claimed that Joe Biden routinely used the device and suggested without evidence that his unelected aides sometimes did it without his knowledge, illegally usurping the executive powers of the presidency.
16% : White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt on Monday did not answer directly on whether Trump wanted Justice Department officials to pursue those Biden had pardoned.
11% : By Monday morning, Trump said he would not honor the pardons Biden made just before leaving office -- in particular those of members and staff of the Joint Select Committee that investigated Trump's role in the Jan. 6 insurrection, including former Republican representatives Liz Cheney of Wyoming and Adam Kinzinger of Illinois and Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Maryland).

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