Reports: DOJ dropping investigation into Biden staffers’ use of presidential autopen
The Department of Justice reportedly is dropping its investigation into the use by Joe Biden’s staff members of his presidential autopen signature, sometimes allegedly without his knowledge or realization of what was happening.
NBC reports the review of those actions, launched by Justice Department pardon attorney Ed Martin, were being wound down under Jeanine Pirro, the current U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia.
The report explained, “The autopen case was never presented to a grand jury, unlike the case that Pirro’s office tried to bring forward last month against six members of Congress who participated in a social media video that urged members of the military and intelligence communities not to follow unlawful orders. It is difficult to bring a criminal case when there is not even a readily identifiable and applicable criminal statute, the person briefed on the matter said.”
Pirro’s office said statements are not released on ongoing investigations.
BREAKING: DOJ shelves investigation into Biden’s autopen use after it failed to find an applicable criminal statute, source says. https://t.co/jFv9z3CWv8
— NBC News (@NBCNews) March 5, 2026
BREAKING REPORT: DOJ’s Autopen Case Against Joe Biden and Aides Closed by Prosecutors in Pirro’s DC US Attorney’s Office https://t.co/ApKNTwM5Zz
— The Gateway Pundit (@gatewaypundit) March 5, 2026
“I am hereby cancelling all Executive Orders, and anything else that was not directly signed by Crooked Joe Biden, because the people who operated the Autopen did so illegally.” – President Donald J. Trump pic.twitter.com/D5mzIl1Cai
— The White House (@WhiteHouse) November 28, 2025
President Donald Trump had sought the investigation after evidence suggested that multitudes of Biden’s orders, including pardons and such, were signed by the machine. There were allegations that staff members used the automated signatures to carry out their wishes without Biden’s knowledge.
These actions allegedly came at a time at the end of Biden’s tenure when the public repeatedly was delivered evidence of Biden’s cognitive decline, when he would mix up names and locations, call for people who had died, talked about conversations with the deceased and more.
The House Oversight Committee investigated Biden’s use of an autopen, writing in a report in October that some executive actions he signed with an autopen were ‘illegitimate,’ because he suffered from mental decline and could have been unaware of the contents, the report explained.
Trump has canceled executive orders from Biden that were signed using the autopen.
The Biden administration actually did not keep official government records of when the autopen was used, but Biden has claimed he “made” those decisions.
“Any suggestion that I didn’t is ridiculous and false,” he said.
The Washington Examiner said its source confirmed Pirro’s office is expected to release additional information about the case.
The Oversight Project, which had raised questions about Biden’s actions, said, “The report from New York Times that the Department of Justice and the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Washington D.C. were unable to move forward with a criminal prosecution into illegal autopen usage are disappointing. We will wait for the facts to emerge, but accountability for the ‘scandal of the century’ is desperately needed and deserved.”