Did Biden’s pellets signed with Self -Cen?

President Trump has said that “many” forgives issued by Joe Biden are void because the former president signed them with “Selfpen”, a device that reproduces the signature of a person, instead of hand.

Trump did not provide evidence of his statement, which was published in Truth Social.

BBC Verify has found several instances of Biden signature indicators by hand instead of autopilot.

And the United States government documents have the same presidential firm when stored in the Federal Registry, a digital archive, and this was the case under Trump and Bajo Biden.

Legal experts also told us that there is nothing in the law of the United States that invalidate the forgives signed by Selfpen.

About social truth, Trump said: “The ‘forgives’ that Joe Biden gave to the non -selected committee of political thugs, and many others, are declared nersos, vacancies and without more strength or effect, due to the fact that they were automatically made.

Trump did not specify what forgiveness he was referring to, but previously referred to the Select Committee of the House of Representatives that investigates the disturbances of January 6 as the “Selection Committee”, and has criticized Biden for forgiving family members.

BBC Verify looked through official Biden photographs in the White House and those published in the official White House X and found several examples of him signing hand forgives.

In October 2022, Biden was photographed signing an order Sorry to those in jail for possession of marijuana.

In the same year, Also signed forgiveness For non -violent criminals.

It is not known if Biden has signed some forgiveness only using Selfpen.

In May last year, CNN reported that he signed a bill For a one -week extension for federal aviation funds using Self -Evin.

BBC Verify has asked Biden’s office to use Autopen and the White House for evidence behind Trump’s claim.

Trump seems to have He took his example of the supervision project – Part of the Conservative Expert Group The Heritage Foundation, who has affirmed that the Biden pardons of January 19, of some family members and political figures, including Anthony Fauci, had the same automatic firm.

We have asked the Heritage Foundation for its works. Previously, he highlighted other Biden documents that, according to him, had automatic signatures, together with screenshots taken from the Federal Registry.

Registration is the official daily publication of several presidential and other government documents, all that have a standard firm created from a single sample.

A spokesman for the national archives told the website to verify facts that: “At the beginning of each administration, the White House sends a sample of the federal registration to the Federal Registry, which uses it to create the graphic image for all the presidential documents published in the Federal Registry,”

We observe through presidential documents filed by the Federal Registry under Trump’s administrations and we find identical signatures in documents.

Which includes Trump Pardones For the uproar of January 6.

Trump had already signed these forgives by hand, How this video was shown in January.

The legal experts we are talking about told us that there is nothing in the Law of the United States that says that the official documents signed by US presidents, including pardons, are not legally binding if they are signed with autopilot.

Andrew Moran, a professor of politics at the Metropolitan University of London, says that the previous presidents have used Selfpen before.

“In lower level important documents, it is not unusual for an automatic pilot to be used.

“But I would have thought that with something as serious as a forgiveness I would have signed it (by hand),” he said.

A 2005 memorandum of the Department of Justice during the Bush Administration He declared that the president does not have to physically sign a bill to become law.

“The President can sign a bill in the sense of article I, Section 7 by directing a subordinate to place the signing of the President to said bill, for example, by self -mind,” said the memorandum.

Although George W. Bush did not use Autopen, President Obama used it in 2011.

Autopen has also been used by previous presidents, including JFK and Harry Truman.

Professor Erin Delaney, director of the Global Center for Democratic Constitutionalism at UCL, says that a Trump attempt to terminate Biden’s forgives would be a “violation of unwritten constitutional norms.”

Critically, I could not follow this action without prosecuting or re -producing people who received immunity, he argues.

Legally challenging Biden’s pardons due to Autopen would also question other aspects of US governance that use automatic signatures, such as bills approved by Congress and signed by the president, he added.

Professor Moran says that a president who revokes the forgiveness of his predecessor is extremely rare.

“Historically, the only example of which I am aware is towards the end of Andrew Johnson’s presidency in the 1860s, when he issued some pardons that were revoked before they were accepted. But that is a very small number.

“If he (Trump) decides that he wants to persecute the people who were forgiven, that will end in court and then that would become the point where the Constitution is really proven,” he said.

Additional reports from Tamara Kovacevic and Shayan Sardarizadeh