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Martin Pengelly

Trump makes unsupported claim Biden pardons are ‘void’ as he used autopen

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Donald Trump speaks to reporters, watched by the national security adviser, Mike Waltz, on board Air Force One on Sunday. Photograph: Kevin Lamarque/Reuters

Donald Trump claimed on Monday, without offering evidence, that pardons signed by Joe Biden were “void, vacant and of no further force and effect” because they were signed with an autopen.

The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines an autopen as “a device that mechanically reproduces a person’s signature”.

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