President Donald Trump is using analysis from The Heritage Foundation to accuse Joe Biden of not physically signing several documents, including key pardons.

The Oversight Project, a branch of The Heritage Foundation — the think tank that wrote Project 2025 — is claiming that the Biden White House used an automated signature to place Biden's name on several key documents that happen to counter Trump's agenda.

US President Donald Trump said his predecessor’s 11th-hour pardons of members of Congress who investigated the January 6 insurrection were “void, vacant and of no further force or effect,” signaling his administration may attempt to upend more than a century of law and practice for presidential pardons.

President Donald Trump has said that Joe Biden's 11th-hour pardons of members of Congress who investigated the January 6 attack are "void, vacant and of no further effect."

In a post on Truth Social, Trump said that the pardons issued by his predecessor are not valid because they were allegedly signed using an autopen—a device that replicates a person's signature.

Trump also warned members of the former January 6 House select committee that they would now be "subject to investigation at the highest level."

Donald Trump declared his predecessor's last-minute pardons 'void, vacant and of no further force or effect' as he warned that members of the House committee investigating the January 6 riots can now face prosecution.

Trump claimed late Sunday night that because Joe Biden used an autopen the pardons cannot be enforced and even made the stunning suggestion they were signed without the former president's knowledge. 

Payback and projection have long been two of President Trump’s touchstones. He settles scores in return for every perceived slight and accuses his targets of what he has done himself. In his second term, that approach has bled into the law, with perilous consequences.

More than most other areas of presidential authority, the Justice Department gives Mr. Trump a way to settle scores — and to help friends. Of course, no one can be convicted without a guilty verdict, but simply by launching an investigation, the federal government can impose ruinous reputational and financial costs.

President Trump shot down speculation Friday that he might pardon former Minneapolis cop Derek Chauvin — whose 2020 murder of George Floyd unleashed months of protests and rioting nationwide — after conservative media personality Ben Shapiro publicly urged the commander-in-chief to do so.

“No, I haven’t even heard about it, no. I haven’t heard of that,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office.

Floyd, a 46-year-old black man, died after Chauvin, now 48, knelt on his neck for nine minutes while arresting him for using a fake $20 bill at a store.

Conservative commentator Ben Shapiro has publicly called for the president to pardon former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin for federal crimes related to George Floyd’s 2020 death – drawing derision from the Minnesota attorney general who helped put Chauvin in prison but amplification from one of Trump’s most powerful advisers.

Shapiro’s proposal could spring to mind several questions, including: “Could a president do that?” (Answer: Yes); and, “What would it matter, since Chauvin also is in prison on state charges?” (Answer: It’s complicated).

Wisconsin Supreme Court candidate Brad Schimel has said he supports presidents using pardons, but that violent rioters who stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, should not have been pardoned. AllSides highlights content from Gigafact, a network of newsrooms that respond to online claims. View the full fact brief on Wisconsin Watch.

The Department of Justice has widened the scope of President Trump's pardons for Jan. 6 riot defendants to include separate but related gun charges. The charges stemmed from FBI searches executed during the sprawling investigation into the Jan. 6, 2021 attack, which allegedly turned up evidence of other crimes not directly connected to the Capitol breach.

In legal filings this week, federal prosecutors asked judges to dismiss cases against two former Jan. 6 defendants, who had both faced federal gun charges.

President Trump pardoned former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich. He served eight years in prison for attempting to sell Barack Obama’s U.S. Senate seat. Trump commuted his sentence during his first term.

In a statement outside his home, Blagojevich expressed gratitude toward Trump and praised his presidency.

While signing the pardon in the Oval Office on Monday, Trump called Blagojevich a victim of injustice.