WASHINGTON, March 17. /TASS/. US President Donald Trump asserted that pardons authorized by his predecessor, Joe Biden, may have been signed by an autopen.

"The `pardons’ that Sleepy Joe Biden gave <…> are hereby declared void, vacant, and of no further force or effect, because of the fact that they were done by Autopen. In other words, Joe Biden did not sign them but, more importantly, he did not know anything about them! The necessary pardoning documents were not explained to, or approved by, Biden. He knew nothing about them, and the people that did may have committed a crime," Trump argued in a Truth Social post.

On January 17, Biden commuted the sentences of nearly 2,500 people convicted of nonviolent drug crimes. Also, he issued individual pardons to a number of persons who Trump warned would be prosecuted, including former US Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Mark Milley, former US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease Director Anthony Fauci, members of a House committee that investigated the Capitol attack that took place in early January 2021, as well as Capitol and District of Columbia police officers who testified in the case.

Thus, Biden issued more pardons and commutations than any president in US history.

Some of the clemency grants were very upsetting, The Wall Street Journal quoted a Justice Department pardon attorney. Some recipients had been accused of grave acts, the newspaper wrote.