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.
Within hours of the online speculation, the administration replaced copies of the pardons with new ones that did not feature identical signatures.
He said in an interview with 60 Minutes that the case had been “a Biden witch hunt.”.
“It’s very straightforward,” said Vastrick, who compared the apparently identical images, now only visible through the online Internet Archive, with the replacements at AP’s request.
White House spokesperson Abigail Jackson wrote in an email that Trump “signed each one of these pardons by hand as he does with all pardons.”.
“The media should spend their time investigating Joe Biden’s countless auto penned pardons, not covering a non-story,” she wrote.
Regardless, legal experts say the use of an autopen has no bearing on the validity of the pardons. »