Overview

• Official posts showed President Trump viewing the new Presidential Walk of Fame installation on the West Colonnade, where Biden’s portrait was replaced with an image of an autopen.
• A video by White House communications staffer Margo Martin highlighted the installation and the autopen substitution, drawing wide attention on social media.
• Trump previously ordered a probe into autopen practices through a White House memo, assigning counsel David Warrington and Attorney General Pam Bondi to lead the review.
• House Oversight requested written testimony from five former Biden aides as part of a parallel examination of how the device was used late in the prior administration.
• Biden told The New York Times he authorized using an autopen for end-of-term pardons due to volume, while reporting notes past presidents also used autopens and DOJ practice treats authorized use as valid even as Trump questions Biden’s fitness.