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Good day all. Over the last week or two a potential major issue has bubbled up. This was the use by the Biden Maladministration to use an Autopen with a preregistered \u201cSignature\u201d of Joe Biden digitally stored. In response, (And there have been a few responses), President Trump has issued very restrictive use cases for the Autopen.<\/p>\n
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Since the moment President Trump retook the Oval Office, (After having it fumigated of course), he has been signing all sorts of executive orders and a few pieces of legislation. He has not been using an Autopen. Now he has issued orders on when an Autopen may be used. Here are the details from the New York Post<\/b><\/a>:<\/p>\n An internal memo drafted Thursday, March 14th<\/sup>, by Trump staff secretary William Scharf, who for the past two months has publicly described and presented documents to Trump for his signature in the Oval Office, lays out the restrictive current use of the autopen. <\/b><\/p>\n \u201cWe have gone significantly further than [the] need for express approval, both in this Administration and in the First Trump Administration,\u201d Scharf wrote. <\/b><\/p>\n \u201cOur practice around autopen usage is far more restrictive than most previous administrations.\u00a0We do not use the autopen for documents that exercise the powers of the Presidency. So, for example, we do not use the autopen for executive orders, presidential memoranda, decision memoranda, nominations, appointment orders or commissions, or bills to be signed,\u201d he wrote. <\/b><\/p>\n I saw something as I was preparing this post that Obama signed a major bill via Autopen. However, he was out of the country at the time and the bill was time sensitive. There were still questions on the legality of using the Autopen. George W. Bush never used an Autopen. Biden? Almost everything was signed by an Autopen which is why people are wondering if Biden was involved at all or if a staffer was doing it on his or her own with no consent from Biden.<\/p>\n \u201cWe do not use the autopen even for more routine purposes, such as the invitation of foreign leaders to the White House. The President personally signs all of these, in the presence of witnesses.\u00a0We will occasionally use the autopen when a single document requires multiple presidential signatures, or when multiple copies of a single document require signing, but only after the President has personally signed off and only at his direction.\u201d <\/b><\/p>\n It sounds like President Trump has put in some very strict safeguards. These will shoot down attempts to question his signatures if and when the Constitutional Crises explodes and it\u2019s determined that Joe Biden didn\u2019t sign anything of note during his failed presidency.<\/p>\n A memo dated Jan. 28 and also reviewed by The Post grants Scharf and White House chief of staff Susie Wiles the authority to use the autopen \u201cfor all matters.\u201d Scharf\u2019s deputy and the president\u2019s executive clerk are allowed to make the call at Scharf\u2019s direction. <\/b><\/p>\n I suspect there is some sort of log set up on the use of the Autopen and who authorized it and for what purpose. I\u2019m sure that if a congressional oversight committee asks to see the logs, they will be quickly delivered with the request that they not be destroyed like the documents from the bogus January 6th<\/sup> commission.<\/p>\n The White House director of correspondence, who manages lower-stakes public communications such as congratulatory messages to Americans on significant life milestones such as birthdays, is also allowed to use the autopen \u201cfor standardized policy materials after clearance by [Scharf]\u201d and for \u201cPresidential messages in accordance with specific direction,\u201d according to the January memo. <\/b><\/p>\n So the Director can\u2019t just go and fire up the Autopen without permission? Good!<\/p>\n \u201cUnder our Administration, the autopen is housed in the Office of Presidential Records,\u201d Scharf wrote Thursday.\u00a0\u201cIt is housed there because OPR is not a \u2018production\u2019 office, meaning that they do not independently produce documents.\u00a0That ensures that a single office cannot both create a document and have it \u2018signed.\u2019 This is a crucial control mechanism that ensures that the President\u2019s signature, and the authority that flows from it, is protected.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n Scarf added: \u201cI view it as my weightiest responsibility as the President\u2019s Staff Secretary to ensure that documents issuing from this White House under the President\u2019s signature reflect the actual expressed will of the President, and that he has the opportunity to personally review the finalized copy of every such document when it is presented for his signature.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n This is a nice, public and very transparent policy, unlike the secretive crap we had from the maladministration of the worst president in American history, Jill<\/i><\/span> Hunter<\/i><\/span> Joe Biden. If the use of the Autopen was abused under the previous administration, then I think we\u2019re going to need either legislation, or, potentially, a full on amendment to the Constitution. Autopens of one sort or another have been around since the founding of this country.<\/p>\n Originally, these were mechanical devices and they required actual input. The signer would manipulate a pen or other writing implement that was mechanically connected to one or more devices that would allow the duplication of the original signature as it happened. Since the digital age, it\u2019s far to easy to generate a digitized signature and store it, and then simply print it out as part of a document print job. You can see how this could be abused. Hopefully, President Trump\u2019s policy on the use of the Autopen will carry forward to future presidents.<\/p>\n Thatisall<\/p>\n ~The Angry Webmaster~<\/b><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Good day all. 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