Kayleigh McEnany brought a fierce, necessary spotlight to a question every patriotic American should demand an answer to: were any of Joe Biden’s pardons rubber-stamped by an autopen without his direct authorization? Her segment on Saturday in America didn’t muffle the concern — it amplified it, forcing a conversation the liberal media has tried to bury. This isn’t idle cable chatter; it’s a constitutional red flag that deserves action.
President Trump has now moved decisively where too many in Washington have only talked, announcing he will revoke executive orders signed via an autopen that he says were not personally authorized. Americans exhausted by years of back-room, unelected decision-making should welcome a White House that insists the signature on the paper match the person in the Oval Office. If documents were truly executed without the president’s clear approval, that strikes at the heart of accountability and the separation of powers.
Republicans on the House Oversight Committee have been blunt about what their investigation uncovered: troubling gaps in how the autopen was used and glaring questions about whether some directives were truly the president’s. The Committee’s report has already urged serious review and even called for certain autopen-signed actions to be treated as void until proven otherwise. This isn’t partisan theater to conservatives; it’s a demand for due process and proof from those who ran the previous administration.
At the same time, legal scholars remind us that autopen technology has history in the White House and that the law around revoking pardons is complicated — yet that legal complexity shouldn’t be an excuse for stonewalling. The debate over autopen use must be answered not with platitudes but with documents, sworn statements, and, if necessary, prosecutions for misconduct. America deserves clarity: either the autopen was used as lawful convenience with the president’s authorization, or it was a mechanism of dodged responsibility.
McEnany’s toughest question — what about the pardons, including those that benefit politically connected figures — has already prompted action from the Justice Department, which is reviewing reports about autopen pardons. That review is overdue. If there’s even a shred of evidence that clemency was misused as a political favor under the guise of convenience, those responsible must be held to account, no exceptions.
Conservatives should proudly back a full, transparent probe and a restoration of presidential responsibility; this is about more than politics, it’s about the dignity of the office and the trust of the people. President Trump’s decision to clean house on autopen-signed actions is exactly the tough oversight Washington elites pretend to want but rarely deliver. If the left screams, let them — their outrage will only highlight their previous indifference when their team benefited.
Hardworking Americans aren’t asking for vendettas; they’re demanding truth. If the autopen was turned into a cover for bypassing the people’s will, expose it, prosecute the wrongdoing, and put safeguards in place so no future White House can weaponize convenience against accountability. This nation was built on rule of law and common-sense patriotism — now is the time to defend both with courage and clarity.
