Trump BLASTS Biden over autopen scandal: 'He knew nothing about what he was signing'

Following the revelation that former President Joe Biden did not "individually approve each name for the categorical pardons that applied to large numbers of people" which were signed via autopen, President Donald Trump on Monday said, "I guarantee he knew nothing about what he was signing."

Speaking with reporters during a meeting with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte, Trump said the use of the autopen "is maybe one of the biggest scandals we’ve had in 50 to 100 years. This is a tremendous scandal."

"The people on the other side of the resolute desk … they’re no good. They’re sick people, and I guarantee it, he knew nothing about what he was signing. I guarantee it. So they’re going to figure it out, and we’ll see what happens."

He continued, "you know what the autopen is supposed to do? Sign thousands of letters from young people that write. I get, we get thousands of letters a week, I mean, tens of thousands. Sometimes I look at a room, there’s a room where we have many many people working, responding and sending letters back. That’s what the autopen is supposed to be, to write to a young seven-year-old boy that writes to the President, and he wants to be president someday, and he loves America."

"That's what the autopen is supposed to be. It’s not supposed to be for signing major legislation and all other things. No. And I doubt he knew, I doubt they even spoke to him about it. I think they, it’s called the free-wheeling autopen. Like, Biden was never for open borders. Biden was never for transgender for everyone. 

Biden signed off on categories for large-scale commutations, instead of each individual name being approved. The autopen was used to sign final versions of the lists. 

Biden said in an interview, "I made every decision. We’re talking about a whole lot of people."