NEW: Trump Administration Moves To Expose Autopen Presidency Records Biden Tried To Hide

Former President Joe Biden has invoked executive privilege as congressional investigators dig into his administration’s use of an autopen, a move the Trump White House flatly rejected Tuesday, Fox News Digital has learned.

“I am concerned that disclosure of these materials would damage important institutional interests of the Presidency, including by impairing the ability of future Presidents to receive robust, candid advice from their close advisers. For these reasons, I hereby assert executive privilege over the documents listed,” Biden wrote in an Oct. 1, 2025, letter to the Archival Operations Division of the National Archives and Records Administration, according to a copy obtained by Fox News Digital.

Biden added that while his administration had already turned over hundreds of records, the documents now under review involved protected presidential deliberations.

“I have raised no objections to multiple requests for Presidential records from my Administration, and hundreds of documents have already been provided to Congress pursuant to those requests, but the records now proposed for release include documents reflecting presidential decision making and deliberations and other materials that are protected by executive privilege,” he wrote.

White House counsel David Warrington shot down the request in a letter sent Tuesday to NARA, rejecting any claim of executive immunity, which shields officials from legal exposure for actions taken in office.

“As President Trump has stated, the abuse of the autopen that took place during the Biden Presidency, and the extraordinary efforts to shield President Biden’s diminished faculties from the public, must be subject to a full accounting to ensure nothing similar ever happens again,” Warrington wrote.

He went further, accusing Biden of broader misconduct.

“Similarly, President Biden’s repeated abuses of the rights of American citizens during the pandemic and his politically motivated efforts to investigate Members of Congress must also be subject to a full accounting to ensure nothing similar ever happens again. Congress has a compelling need in service of its legislative functions to understand the circumstances that led to all these horrific events,” the letter said.

Fox News Digital reached out to Biden’s office for comment Tuesday afternoon.

Warrington also flagged what he described as discrepancies in Biden’s signatures, arguing they underscore the need for deeper scrutiny.

“Remarkably, that letter demonstrates the importance of these congressional investigations. President Biden’s signature does not match the one he used to pardon his family or his son,” Warrington wrote, referencing images showing three different signatures.

An autopen, a mechanical device used for decades to replicate a president’s signature, has become a focal point of the investigation as lawmakers examine whether it was used to sign official documents without Biden’s direct approval.

Biden has repeatedly dismissed those allegations.

“Let me be clear: I made the decisions during my presidency. I made the decisions about the pardons, executive orders, legislation, and proclamations,” Biden said in a statement in June. “Any suggestion that I didn’t is ridiculous and false.”

The controversy gained traction earlier this year after the Heritage Foundation’s Oversight Project reported that the same signature appeared on numerous executive orders and official documents, while Biden’s signature on his letter announcing his exit from the 2024 race appeared different. The findings fueled speculation that aides, not the president, approved major actions.

President Trump seized on the issue, repeatedly warning that “whoever controlled the autopen controlled the presidency,” and calling it “the biggest scandal maybe of the last 100 years in this country.”

Trump announced earlier this month that he intends to void documents allegedly signed by autopen.

“The Autopen is not allowed to be used if approval is not specifically given by the President of the United States,” Trump wrote on Truth Social, claiming roughly 92% of Biden-era documents were autopen-signed. “The Radical Left Lunatics circling Biden around the beautiful Resolute Desk in the Oval Office took the Presidency away from him.”

Both chambers of Congress have launched parallel probes. House Oversight Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., has led the House investigation, while the Senate Judiciary Committee held a June hearing titled “Unfit to Serve: How the Biden Cover-Up Endangered America and Undermined the Constitution.”

Comer released a report in October calling on the Justice Department to review every executive action Biden signed during his four years in office. The probe focused on whether aides concealed signs of cognitive decline and used the autopen without Biden’s knowledge.

“Faced with the cognitive decline of President Joe Biden, White House aides, at the direction of the inner circle, hid the truth about the former president’s condition and fitness for office,” the report stated.

“The Biden Autopen Presidency will go down as one of the biggest political scandals in U.S. history,” Comer added. “As Americans saw President Biden’s decline with their own eyes, Biden’s inner circle sought to deceive the public, cover-up his decline, and took unauthorized executive actions with the autopen that are now invalid.”

House Democrats pushed back, saying the yearlong investigation produced no evidence of wrongdoing or unfitness for office.

“Following more than a year of inquiry, extensive witness interviews, and significant time and effort expended by both Republican and Democratic staff, the Oversight Majority has failed to produce any evidence to support their allegations against President Biden,” Democrats said.

Warrington countered that the evidence already justifies continued investigation.

“Any American, save for those paid to cover the President as ‘reporters’, could see that President Biden struggled to perform his duties,” he wrote.

“These are unique and extraordinary circumstances,” Warrington added. “The constitutional protections of executive privilege should not be used to shield, from Congress or the public, information that reflects a clear and apparent effort to subvert the Constitution itself.”

Concerns about Biden’s mental acuity had simmered for years but exploded into the open after his disastrous debate performance against Trump in June 2024. Weeks later, Biden dropped out of the race in a Sunday afternoon announcement, handing the nomination to then–Vice President Kamala Harris, who went on to lose to Trump after a truncated campaign.

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