Trump voids sleepy Joe Biden’s sham pardons - at long last

With the resolute clarity America craved, President Donald Trump took to Truth Social early Monday to deliver a hammer blow to the hollow legacy of Joe Biden, declaring all of his predecessor’s last-minute pardons “VOID, VACANT, AND OF NO FURTHER FORCE OR EFFECT.” The reason? Biden, in his tragic descent into dementia, relied on an autopen to rubber-stamp clemency for a rogues’ gallery of Trump foes—pardons Trump rightly calls fraudulent, unapproved, and a disgrace to the office. It’s a bold move that lays bare what everyone already knew: Biden’s presidency was a shell, propped up by aides while a nation watched in sorrow.

Trump’s announcement, posted in the predawn hours today, zeroes in on the autopen—a mechanical crutch that signed away justice for the Jan. 6 House select committee’s nine members, former Joint Chiefs Chairman General Mark Milley, and Dr. Anthony Fauci. “Joe Biden did not sign them but, more importantly, he did not know anything about them!” Trump wrote, his words cutting through the fog of Biden’s 82-year decline. It’s a truth whispered in corridors and shouted on airwaves: the oldest-ever president was a figurehead, his mental frailty a sad spectacle that left him oblivious to the documents thrust before him. “He knew nothing about them,” Trump added, “and the people that did may have committed a crime.”

The pardons, issued on Biden’s final day, were a desperate act of defiance—preemptive shields for those who hounded Trump relentlessly. The Jan. 6 committee, led by Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) and ex-Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.), spent two years spinning a “Witch Hunt” that Trump rightly deems a sham, only to see their evidence vanish in what he calls a cover-up. Milley, who dared call Trump a “wannabe dictator,” and Fauci, whose COVID-19 evasions enraged millions, rounded out the list. Biden’s team claimed these were noble acts, but Trump’s revelation shatters that illusion: they were scribbled by a machine, not a mind, as Biden faded into irrelevance.

No one disputes it anymore—Biden’s dementia was a national tragedy, an open secret that haunted his tenure. At 82, his stumbles, gaffes, and vacant stares weren’t quirks; they were symptoms of a man unmoored, a reality aides masked but couldn’t erase. Trump’s charge—“The necessary Pardoning Documents were not explained to, or approved by, Biden”—rings true to anyone who watched the former president shuffle through his final months. Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey, a voice of reason, echoed this last week, noting dozens of Biden’s executive orders bore identical autopen signatures. “If true,” Bailey warned, “these actions are unconstitutional and legally void.” He’s demanded a DOJ probe into whether Biden’s decline let unelected staff ram through radical policies—a question that demands answers.

Trump’s not stopping at words. He’s vowed to pursue “investigation at the highest level” against the Jan. 6 crew—Cheney, Thompson, and their ilk—who he says “destroyed and deleted ALL evidence” in their crusade against him. “They were probably responsible for the Documents that were signed on their behalf without the knowledge or consent of the Worst President in the History of our Country,” he wrote, pinning the blame where it belongs. These weren’t pardons; they were a final, pitiful gasp from a presidency that never truly led. Trump’s move to void them isn’t just legal—it’s moral, a correction of a wrong everyone saw coming.

The law backs him, too, or it should. The Constitution’s pardon power assumes a president’s intent, not a machine’s hum. If Biden didn’t grasp what he was signing—a likelihood no serious observer doubts—those acts crumble under scrutiny. Courts may hesitate, wary of upending precedent, but Trump’s case is ironclad in the public square: a demented Biden couldn’t protect his enemies, no matter how hard his handlers tried. Fauci, who dodged Congress on Wuhan lab funding, and Milley, who betrayed his commander-in-chief, don’t deserve clemency—they deserve accountability, and Trump’s poised to deliver it.

This is more than a power play—it’s a reckoning. Biden’s pardons were a middle finger to Trump’s America, shielding those who smeared him while a nation mourned its leader’s collapse. Trump called them “disgraceful” last month, raging that “Many are guilty of MAJOR CRIMES!” He’s right—Fauci’s lab-leak denials unraveled under federal probes, and Milley’s Jan. 6 testimony stank of disloyalty. Cheney’s sanctimonious exit to Harris’ camp only sealed her fate. Trump’s voiding them isn’t revenge; it’s justice, a restoration of order after years of chaos under a man too broken to govern.

The doubters will carp—let them. Biden’s decline was no secret; it was a wound America bore together, from his fumbling speeches to his vacant gaze. Trump’s not rewriting history—he’s fixing it, peeling back the curtain on a presidency that ended in farce. Whether courts follow suit matters less than the message: Trump’s back, and the games are over.

The New York Post contributed to this article.