Trump questions the autopen use during Biden administration

 National Review:

President Donald Trump dismissed former President Joe Biden’s insistence that he “made the decisions” while president, calling his predecessor’s regular use of the autopen to sign executive orders a “scandal” in response to a question from National Review in the Oval Office.

Trump signed an executive order on Wednesday directing the White House counsel, Justice Department, and other relevant authorities to investigate the matter, claiming that it has “become increasingly apparent” that White House aides used the president’s mechanical signature pen to “conceal Biden’s cognitive decline and assert Article II authority.”

Trump suggested on Thursday that his predecessor was so cognitively impaired that he wasn’t aware of many policy decisions that were made by his White House relating to presidential memoranda, clemency grants, and executive orders, suggesting that White House aides were making those decisions instead.

“He was never for open borders. He was never for transgender for everybody. He was never for men playing in women’s sports. I mean, he changed and — all of these things that changed so radically,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office on Thursday afternoon, when pressed by National Review for his reaction to Biden’s dismissal of the investigation. “I said it during the debate, and I say it now: he didn’t have much of an idea of what was going on.”
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I think this is an issue that should be investigated.  It became an issue during a time when Biden was obviously struggling with dementia.

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