Many documents signed by President Joe Biden were done so using an autopen, according to a new report by an arm of the conservative Heritage Foundation, sparking questions over who was pulling the strings during the former president’s four years in office.
‘WHOEVER CONTROLLED THE AUTOPEN CONTROLLED THE PRESIDENCY,’ the Oversight Project wrote in a post on X on Thursday.
‘We gathered every document we could find with Biden’s signature over the course of his presidency. All used the same autopen signature except for the announcement that the former President was dropping out of the race last year,’ it continued.
The report comes after Biden’s four-year presidency was hampered by accusations and concerns over his mental acuity and fitness to serve.
The former president dramatically exited the 2024 presidential race last July just months before Election Day after insisting for most of his time in office that he could serve a second term.
President Biden pictured in the Oval Office just days before leaving office. A new report from the Oversight Project claims an autopen was used to sign all the documents it could find with Biden’s signatures during his presidency except his letter announcing he was exiting the race last summer
The Oversight Project shared two examples from documents that it claimed showed the use of the autopen including a document from August 2022 as well as one from December 2024 with what appear to be identical signatures.
It also posted an image of Biden’s signature as a comparison from when he announced he was dropping out of the race. That image shows a slight variation from the other shared documents.
DailyMail.com examined more than 25 Biden executive orders documented on the Federal Register’s office between 2021 and 2025. It found the same signature on each.
A separate examination of 25 Trump signatures on orders on the Federal Register’s website from his first and second administrations also found the signatures were all the same.
Use of an autopen allows for a mechanical devise to sign documents rather than an individual. It has been used by presidents and lawmakers for decades.
‘For investigators to determine whether then-President Biden actually ordered the signature of relevant legal documents, or if he even had the mental capacity to, they must first determine who controlled the autopen and what checks there were in place,’ the Oversight Project claimed.
The conservative group questioned if it was something that could be determined with the ‘correct legal process.’
The Oversight Project shared what it had found regarding Biden’s use of an autopen after the Republican Attorney General of Missouri Andrew Bailey called for a Justice Department investigation.
Bailey wrote last week he wanted them to look into whether Biden’s ‘cognitive decline allowed unelected staff to push through radical policy without his knowing approval.’
The GOP state attorney general sent a letter to the Justice Department inspector general on March 4, requesting a probe into the former president’s final days in office.
Bailey claimed in his letter it ‘appears staffers and officers in the Biden administration may have exploited Biden’s incapacity so they could issue orders without an accountable President of sound mind approving them.’
The Trump ally argued if Biden was being exploited, the orders are ‘null and void’ and states need to know.
Bailey cited an example where Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson recently claimed Biden did not appear to know what orders he had been signing in a conversation they had.
In its thread of posts about the autopen, the Oversight Project also shared a video clip of Johnson in an interview where he said the former president did not remember signing an executive order on energy exports.
Johnson recalled in the interview about how he went back and forth with the 81-year-old president, and Biden said that he signed an order to conduct a study on the effects of Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG).
The speaker told Bari Weiss he believes the former president ‘genuinely did not know what he had signed.’
While the Oversight Project posted that all the signatures it gathered but the one on the exit letter appeared to have been done by autopen, in a interview on the far-right Real America’s Voice, Heritage attorney Samuel Dewey noted another signature that they believe was also done in person was the pardon of Hunter Biden which he described as ‘shaky.’
