President Donald Trump is facing new scrutiny over the use of a replicated signature on several recent pardons.

The Justice Department posted pardons online bearing identical copies of Donald Trump’s signature before quietly correcting them this week after what the agency called a “technical error.”

The replacements came after online commenters seized on striking similarities in the president’s signature across a series of pardons dated Nov. 7, including those granted to former New York Mets player Darryl Strawberry, former Tennessee House speaker Glen Casada and former New York police sergeant Michael McMahon.

In fact, the signatures on several pardons initially uploaded to the Justice Department’s website were identical, two forensic document experts confirmed to The Associated Press.

  • BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today
    23·
    18 hours ago

    The MAGAs have been making the argument that Biden signed Hunter’s pardon with an autopen, so the pardon is invalid. If that’s true, then so are Trump’s pardons. I’m good with that, let’s round up all the J6 traitors. I doubt he personally signed over 1000 pardons.

    Also, did he sign any of his Executive Orders with an autopen, because they’re invalid, too.

    Just following THEIR rules.

    • Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works
      4·
      4 hours ago

      Its not eve n about the autopen in their opinion, its that Biden wasn’t supposedly aware of what he was signing.

      So what I say is have Trump name every executive order he has made and any one that he misses gets instantly struck down.

    • 鳳凰院 凶真 (Hououin Kyouma)@sh.itjust.works
      4·
      17 hours ago

      I doubt he personally signed over 1000 pardons.

      You know, you can have more than one name on a single pardon, or just name an entire group like “everyone who was accused of any crime at or near the capital on January 6, 2021”. Also dude is still the incumbent, what good is invalidating the autopen thing?

      • skisnow@lemmy.caEnglish
        2·
        13 hours ago

        Specifying a whole group and not giving names seems like it should probably be unconstitutional? Like you could just use it to unilaterally undo any law, which isn’t the intent of the pardon system. IANAL