U.S President, Donald Trump has challenged the legitimacy of former President Joe Biden’s preemptive pardons for members of the committee that investigated the January 6, 2021, Capitol riot, arguing that they were issued improperly.
Trump asserted that Biden was unaware of the pardons and never personally signed the documents.
“The ‘pardons’ that Biden gave to the committee, and many others, are hereby declared void, vacant and of no further force or effect, because they were done by Autopen,” Trump wrote on Truth Social.
He further alleged that the former president had no knowledge of the process, suggesting that those involved may have committed a crime.
“Biden knew nothing about them, and the people that did may have committed a crime,” Trump claimed.
The former president vowed to launch an investigation into those responsible for authorizing and processing the documents.
“We will investigate at the highest level the people probably responsible for the Documents that were signed on their behalf without the knowledge or consent of Biden,” he stated.
The January 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol saw pro-Trump demonstrators storming the complex, disrupting the certification of Biden’s 2020 election victory.
Hundreds of individuals faced criminal charges related to the riot.
Trump, following his reelection, pardoned more than 1,500 individuals connected to the event.
Biden, on his final day in office on January 20, issued preemptive pardons for members of the House select committee that investigated the January 6 attack, reportedly fearing potential retaliation once he left the White House.
