A day after ordering the Justice Department and White House to investigate former President Joe Biden's mental state while he was in office, President Donald Trump on Thursday doubled down on his accusations, without evidence, that Biden was not really running the country, claiming aides used his autopen to carry out "radical" policies.
Biden has denied the allegations and the Justice Department's legal counsel have endorsed autopens as lawful for signing bills into law, but Trump claimed during an Oval Office session with reporters that the use of the tool was the "biggest scandal maybe in the last 100 years" of this country.
Trump claimed he could tell which of Biden's executive orders were signed with an autopen and claimed aides used it to enact "open borders" and transgender rights policies he said Biden didn't support.
"He didn't have much of an idea what was going on. He shouldn't be ... I mean, essentially, whoever used the autopen was the president. And that is wrong. It's illegal, it's so bad and then it's so disrespectful to our country," Trump said.
Shortly after Trump directed the Justice Department to investigate "the circumstances surrounding Biden's supposed execution of numerous executive actions during his final years in office," Biden issued a statement to ABC News calling the probe "nothing more than a mere distraction."
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