Trump Told the DOJ to Go After Biden Over His Autopen. They Tried. They Failed. They Hoped You Wouldn't Notice.

The DOJ Just Quietly Killed the Biden Autopen Probe, and You Need to Know Why That Matters

Let me tell you something that should stop you in your tracks. The Department of Justice just walked away from an investigation that the current President of the United States personally demanded. And almost nobody is talking about it.

If you have been paying attention to this story, you know that Donald Trump made a very loud, very public demand back in June for a sweeping criminal probe into Joe Biden and his team. The accusation was that Biden’s aides used an autopen, a device that mechanically reproduces a signature, to sign executive documents while Biden was allegedly too cognitively impaired to know what he was putting his name on. That is a serious accusation. That is the kind of claim that, if true, would rock the foundation of executive authority in this country.

So the DOJ opened the case. And now, quietly, with no press conference and no fanfare, they closed it. They shelved it. They let it die.

You deserve to understand exactly what happened here and what it tells you about the state of the justice system right now.

Who Opened the Case and Who Shut It Down

The person who launched this probe was Ed Martin, who served as the DOJ’s pardon attorney and was previously known as the administration’s so called weaponization czar. Martin opened the investigation while he was serving as interim U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia. That is a significant post. That office handles some of the highest profile federal cases in the country.

Former DOJ Pardon Attorney, Liz Oyer, had this to say about Ed Martin:

The case eventually landed in the lap of Jeanine Pirro, the current U.S. attorney for D.C. If that name sounds familiar, it should. Pirro spent years as a Fox News host and is a well known, longstanding ally of Donald Trump. She now holds one of the most consequential federal prosecutorial positions in the nation.

Under Pirro’s watch, the autopen probe wound down. It never went to a grand jury. It never produced charges. It simply faded out.

And here is the part you need to sit with. A spokesperson for Pirro’s office, when asked about the investigation, said the office does not confirm or deny the existence of criminal probes, citing DOJ policy. That is standard language. That is the kind of thing prosecutors say when they do not want to answer the question. The White House referred all questions to the DOJ.

So the whole thing just disappeared.

Why the Case Fell Apart

You might be wondering how an investigation demanded by a sitting president, launched by a loyalist, and overseen by another loyalist, could just evaporate. The answer is actually straightforward, and it should tell you a lot about the original accusation.

A person briefed on the matter made the point clearly. It is extremely difficult to bring a criminal case when there is no readily identifiable criminal statute that applies. Read that again. There was no law they could point to that made what Biden allegedly did a crime. They opened an investigation looking for a crime to prosecute, and they could not find one.

That is a massive admission. The entire basis for the probe was political theater. The accusation sounded alarming. The demand for an investigation sounded urgent. The rhetoric around cognitive decline and hidden signatures sounded damning. And when actual federal prosecutors sat down and tried to build a case, there was nothing to build it on.

You need to understand this because it reveals a pattern. When accusations are made at high volume and with great confidence, your instinct might be to assume there is substance behind them. This case is a reminder that volume is not evidence.

What Biden Said in His Own Defense

Joe Biden did not stay silent on this. In a statement released back in June, he pushed back directly and forcefully. He said the decisions during his presidency were his decisions. He said the pardons, the executive orders, the legislation, and the proclamations were all his calls. He called the suggestion that he was not in charge ridiculous and false.

Now, you can decide for yourself what you believe about Biden’s cognitive state during his final months in office. That is your right as a citizen. What you should also know is that there is no official government record of when an autopen is used. There is no log. There is no tracking system. That means no one, not Trump, not Congress, not the DOJ, has been able to definitively prove how often an autopen was deployed or under what circumstances.

The Republican led House Oversight Committee did investigate the matter and released a report in October calling some of Biden’s autopen signed executive actions illegitimate. They argued that Biden’s mental decline meant he may not have been aware of what he was signing. That is a political conclusion, not a legal one. And the DOJ’s decision to drop the probe reinforces that distinction.

The Bigger Picture You Cannot Ignore

Here is where this story gets really important for you. The autopen investigation did not happen in a vacuum. It is part of a much larger pattern of the current administration directing the DOJ to go after political opponents.

Think about what has happened in just the last several months. The DOJ attempted to prosecute former FBI Director James Comey. A federal judge threw out the charges in November. The DOJ attempted to prosecute New York Attorney General Letitia James. A federal judge threw out those charges in November too. In January, the DOJ sent criminal subpoenas to state and local government offices in Minnesota, targeting Governor Tim Walz and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey over allegations that they conspired to obstruct federal immigration enforcement. Neither has been charged. Legal experts across the spectrum have condemned that investigation, calling the legal premise flimsy and warning that it creates a chilling effect on free speech and the ability of elected officials to govern.

And then there was Pirro’s own office attempting to bring a case against six members of Congress who appeared in a social media video urging military and intelligence personnel not to follow unlawful orders. That case actually went to a grand jury, which is more than the autopen case ever achieved.

Even Trump’s executive orders that Katie Couric and I talked about on Tuesday, banning lawyers from accessing security clearances, government contracts and entering federal buildings, are being deemed as “illegal” by the courts.

Do you see the pattern? Investigation after investigation, prosecution attempt after prosecution attempt, all aimed at people who are political adversaries of the current president. And case after case is collapsing. Judges are tossing charges. Grand juries are not returning indictments. Prosecutors are finding no applicable statutes.

This is not about law enforcement. This is the federal justice system being pointed at political enemies like a weapon. And the autopen case is one of the clearest examples, because even the president’s own appointees could not make it work.

What This Means for You Right Now

You need to pay attention to this because it affects the credibility of every federal investigation going forward. When the DOJ is used as a tool for political payback, it damages the institution in ways that take decades to repair. Every legitimate investigation, every real prosecution, every case that actually matters now carries the shadow of political motivation.

If you care about the rule of law, this should alarm you regardless of your political affiliation. The DOJ is supposed to be independent. It is supposed to follow the evidence. It is supposed to charge crimes that actually exist under the law. When it opens investigations based on political demands and then quietly closes them because there was never a legal basis to begin with, that is a problem for every single American.

The autopen story was designed to make you believe something sinister was happening behind closed doors at the Biden White House. It was designed to make you think that a shadowy group of aides was running the country while the president sat unaware. And when the full weight of the federal government was brought to bear on that accusation, it produced nothing. No charges. No grand jury. No crime.

That is the story. Not the autopen. Not the signatures. The story is that your government spent time, resources, and prosecutorial energy on an investigation that had no legal foundation, while real issues affecting your life went unaddressed.

Your Move

You have a choice right now. You can let this story slide by in the news cycle, buried under the next outrage and the next headline. Or you can hold onto it. You can remember it the next time someone in power demands an investigation into a political rival. You can ask the question that matters most. Is there an actual crime here, or is this performance?

Because the DOJ just gave you the answer on the autopen case. And the answer was silence. The answer was a case that never went to a grand jury, charges that never materialized, and a quiet retreat that no one was supposed to notice.

You noticed. Now do something with it. Share this. Talk about it. Demand accountability from the people who are supposed to protect the integrity of the justice system. Because if you do not, the next politically motivated investigation will be even bolder, and the one after that will be bolder still.

The system only works when you insist that it does.

Mitch Jackson, Esq.

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