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.
‘The Pardons that Sleepy Joe Biden gave to the Unselect Committee of Political Thugs and many others are hereby declared VOID, VACANT AND OF NO FURTHER FORCE OR EFFECT because of the fact that they were done by Autopen,’ he posted on his Truth Social page.
‘In other words, Joe Biden did not sign them but, more importantly, he did not know anything about them!’ Trump claimed.
‘The necessary Pardoning Documents were not explained to, or approved by, Biden. He knew nothing about them and the people that did may have committed a crime.
‘Therefore, those on the Unselect Committee, who destroyed and deleted ALL evidence obtained during their two year Witch Hunt of me and many other innocent people, should fully understand that they are subject to investigation at the highest level,’ Trump wrote.
Biden had issued preemptive pardons for all nine members of the January 6 Committee – including panel Chairman Rep. Bennie Thompson and former Republican Rep. Liz Cheney.
‘The fact is they were probably responsible for the Documents that were signed on their behalf or consent of the Worst President in the History of our Country, Crooked Joe Biden,’ Trump claimed on Sunday.
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Among those Biden controversially pardoned in his last act as president was Dr. Anthony Fauci
He also issued preemptive pardons for all nine members of the January 6 Committee – including panel Chairman Rep. Bennie Thompson and former Republican Rep. Liz Cheney
Trump has repeatedly hit out at the House committee investigating the Capitol riots – under the direction of Chairman Adam Schiff – as comprising ‘Radical Left Democrats and a few horrible RINO Republicans’
‘With the stroke of a pen, he unilaterally shielded a group of political cronies from the scales of justice. This is yet another dangerous and unreversible (sic) erosion of American norms.’
But questions have since arisen about whether Biden actually signed many of the orders under his administration amid his noticeable cognitive decline after it was revealed they were signed with an autopen.
The mechanical device signs documents rather than an individual. It has been used by presidents and lawmakers for decades.
On Thursday, the Oversight Project wrote that it ‘gathered every document we could find with Biden’s signature over the course of his presidency’.
‘All used the same autopen signature except for the announcement that the former President was dropping out of the race last year.’
It went on to share two examples from documents that it claimed showed the use of the autopen including a document from August 2022 as well as one from December 2024 with what appear to be identical signatures.
The group also posted an image of Biden’s signature as a comparison from when he announced he was dropping out of the race. That image shows a slight variation from the other shared documents.
DailyMail.com also examined more than 25 Biden executive orders documented on the Federal Register’s office between 2021 and 2025. It found the same signature on each.
A separate examination of 25 Trump signatures on orders on the Federal Register’s website from his first and second administrations also found the signatures were all the same.
The Oversight Project now says investigators must determine ‘who controlled the autopen and what checks there were in place’ to determine whether Biden actually made any of the orders.
Still, it questioned if that was something that could be determined in the ‘correct legal process.’
The Oversight Project shared what it had found regarding Biden’s use of an autopen after the Republican Attorney General of Missouri Andrew Bailey called for a Justice Department investigation.
Bailey wrote last week he wanted them to look into whether Biden’s ‘cognitive decline allowed unelected staff to push through radical policy without his knowing approval.’
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Jay Bhattacharya’s Confirmation Hearing: A Masterclass in Why the NIH Needs Reform
Arguably Bhattacharya’s most important statement during the hearing concerned the NIH’s funding of gain-of-function research: “The NIH, I don’t think, should be doing any risky research that has the potential to cause a pandemic.”
Last week, Stanford University professor Jay Bhattacharya appeared before the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions for his confirmation hearing as the next director of the National Institutes of Health. In the process, he delivered a masterclass in why the NIH urgently needs reform — and why he’s the ideal candidate to lead that effort.
Bhattacharya defended his vision for the agency and addressed senators’ questions on multiple fronts, including NIH research priorities, funding allocations, vaccine safety, and scientific integrity. The Stanford health economist — known for challenging conventional Covid-19 policies — emphasized the need to restore public trust in the NIH while outlining how he would steer the world’s largest public funder of biomedical research toward more balanced, innovative, and holistic science.
In his opening statement, Bhattacharya made his priorities clear. “I want NIH funding to study population aging, chronic disease, and obesity,” he said. “I’ve made the study of scientific institutions, including the NIH itself, a focus of my own scientific work.”
Bhattacharya is the ideal candidate to lead the NIH precisely because of his alignment with the broader Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) vision and his systems-level, holistic approach to health — a perspective vindicated during the pandemic. As MAHA advocates have highlighted, the chronic disease epidemic is not simply a matter of poor diet, vaccines, or environmental toxins, but a complex interplay of all such mental, physical, environmental, and social factors. Donald Trump’s second presidency presents a generational opportunity to confront the interconnected causes of modern illness — both physical and mental.
A Systems-Level Perspective
Scientific inquiry often suffers from working in isolation, cut off from other disciplines and real-world complexities. During the pandemic, many virologists, immunologists, vaccinologists, and physicians — highly trained in narrow specialties — called for lockdowns, school closures, masking, and social distancing, without fully considering the broader social, economic, and psychological consequences.
Bhattacharya was one of the few with the foresight to resist this narrow thinking. His training as an economist gave him a systems-level perspective that integrated the economic, social, and psychological dimensions of the crisis. He advocated for more balanced, rational policies — protecting the elderly from Covid while allowing younger, low-risk populations to resume their normal lives — as articulated in the Great Barrington Declaration, a document he coauthored with Martin Kulldorff and Sunetra Gupta.
This nuanced stance made Bhattacharya a target of the public health establishment. Former NIH director Francis Collins infamously disparaged Bhattacharya and his colleagues as “fringe epidemiologists” whose ideas required a “quick and devastating takedown.” Collins would go on to tell The Washington Post, “This is a fringe component of epidemiology . . . This is not mainstream science.”
Unlike his predecessors, Bhattacharya encourages dissenting perspectives. At his confirmation hearing, he expressed strong support for funding researchers with unconventional ideas: “some of those [ideas] will fail and some of those will succeed and the ones that succeed can make big advances.”
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Ending Gain-of-Function Research
Arguably Bhattacharya’s most important statement during the hearing concerned the NIH’s funding of gain-of-function research, which many credible experts believe led to the pandemic via a lab leak: “The NIH, I don’t think, should be doing any risky research that has the potential to cause a pandemic.”
If Bhattacharya’s position on gain-of-function research is implemented, that alone could justify his confirmation. The pandemic taught us that the fate of humanity itself could hinge on reining in such dangerous experimentation.
The Right Leader for This Moment
Bhattacharya’s confirmation hearing underscored why he is the right leader for this moment. His commitment to scientific integrity, intellectual diversity, and systems-level thinking stands in stark contrast to the rigid, authoritarian approach of previous NIH leadership. His willingness to confront uncomfortable truths — whether on vaccine safety, corporate food lobbying, or pandemic mismanagement — demonstrates the courage and integrity that the NIH sorely needs.
If America is serious about reversing the chronic disease epidemic and restoring public trust in science, confirming Jay Bhattacharya as NIH director is not just the right move — it’s essential.
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