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Trump Orders Investigation Into Alleged Cover-Up Of Biden’s Decline

President-elect Donald Trump and President Joe Biden are seen ahead of inaugural ceremonies on Jan. 20. (Tom Brenner/For The Washington Post)

President Donald Trump on Wednesday ordered a broad investigation into whether Joe Biden covered up a cognitive decline while in the White House and was incapable of executing presidential decisions — an unprecedented request that in theory could undermine thousands of Biden’s executive actions and pardons.

The order focused in part on whether Biden’s use of the autopen — a machine that uses real ink to duplicate a human signature — on executive actions was legitimate, or whether his aides used it to hide a president who was not cognitively capable of signing them himself.

Presidents have long used autopens to sign executive orders, and Trump has said that he also has used it for routine correspondence. Trump’s assertion that Biden’s use of the autopen may be problematic appears to conflict with guidance issued by the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel in 2005, which determined that a president does not need to personally sign his signature on an official document for it to be considered valid.

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