共和党主导的众议院监督委员会称拜登使用自动签名笔是一场丑闻，并建议司法部进一步调查
作者：阿什利·奥利弗（Ashley Oliver）
福克斯新闻（Fox News）
发布时间：2026年3月5日 美国东部时间上午11:26
司法部周四表示仍在调查前总统乔·拜登使用自动签名笔的合法性，尽管有报道称由于检察官无法确定任何可提出的刑事指控，调查已被搁置。
多位消息人士告诉福克斯新闻数字频道，在《纽约时报》报道该调查最近被搁置后，美国检察官让娜·皮罗（Jeanine Pirro）的办公室仍在调查拜登白宫使用自动签名笔的情况。
皮罗周四在X平台（原推特）上回应该报道时表示，司法部“无法对正在进行的调查发表评论”，这表明调查仍在进行中。
《纽约时报》周三报道称，“调查已被悄悄搁置”，因为司法部未能“对拜登先生及其助手提起刑事诉讼”。
乔治·华盛顿大学法学教授、福克斯新闻评论员乔纳森·特利（Jonathan Turley）此前曾表示，对拜登使用自动签名笔的法律质疑可能不会成功。
特利2025年在社交媒体上写道：“许多人认为，鉴于拜登使用自动签名笔的披露，现在可能会对拜登的赦免令提出质疑。此类质疑成功的可能性微乎其微。总统有权使用自动签名笔，法院不会假定存在‘后手共谋’。”
虽然包括特朗普在内的其他总统也曾使用过自动签名笔——特朗普曾表示他在“不重要”的文件上使用过——但拜登的自动签名笔使用成为争议焦点，因为他任期内外界对其心智能力的质疑日益增多。
拜登的“自动签名”出现在大多数官方文件上，引发对白宫控制权的担忧：报道
共和党主导的众议院监督委员会对这一事件展开调查，采访了几名前拜登政府工作人员。该委员会在一份报告中称，拜登使用自动签名笔构成一场丑闻，并建议司法部进一步调查。
报告称：“随着拜登总统能力下降，其工作人员滥用自动签名笔，并利用松懈的指挥链政策实施行政行动，而这些行动缺乏任何文件证明其确实获得授权。”
特朗普急于追究自动签名笔事件的责任，在社交媒体上声称任何代表拜登使用自动签名笔的工作人员都是“非法行事”，并威胁要以伪证罪起诉这位前总统。
拜登则强烈否认这些指控，去年在一份声明中表示自己才是决策的掌控者。
拜登说：“我要明确一点：在我的总统任期内，所有决策都是我做出的。我对赦免令、行政命令、立法和公告做出了决定。任何暗示我没有决策的说法都是荒谬和虚假的。”
委员会特别关注拜登的赦免令，包括他总统任期最后几天对家人的五项有争议的赦免，称缺乏“同期文件”来证实拜登直接下令赦免。
委员会要求司法部调查“前总统拜登的所有行政行动，特别是赦免行动，以评估是否需要采取法律行动来撤销任何实际上并非拜登亲自做出的行动”。
特朗普再次抨击拜登自动签名笔赦免令，称“我从未下达过这些命令”
当被要求置评时，白宫援引司法部的回应。
司法部总部拒绝对此事发表评论。
福克斯新闻的大卫·斯庞特（David Spunt）和杰克·吉布森（Jake Gibson）对此报道亦有贡献。
DOJ signals it’s still digging into Biden autopen use despite reports probe fizzled
Republican-led House Oversight Committee called Biden’s autopen use a scandal and recommended further DOJ investigation
By Ashley Oliver
Fox News
Published March 5, 2026 11:26am EST
The Department of Justice indicated Thursday it is still investigating the legality of former President Joe Biden’s use of an autopen despite reports that the probe has been shelved because prosecutors have been unable to identify any criminal charges to bring.
Multiple sources told Fox News Digital that U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro’s office was still looking into the Biden White House’s autopen use after the New York Times reported that the inquiry was recently tabled.
Pirro responded to the report in an X post on Thursday, saying the DOJ “cannot comment on ongoing investigations,” signaling the investigation remained open.
The New York Times reported Wednesday that the “inquiry was quietly shelved” because the DOJ failed “to build a criminal case against Mr. Biden and his aides.”
Jonathan Turley, George Washington University law professor and Fox News contributor, previously said legal challenges to Biden’s autopen use would likely be unsuccessful.
“Many are suggesting that the Biden pardons may now be challenged in light of the disclosures of Biden’s use of an autopen,” Turley wrote on social media in 2025. “The chances of such challenges succeeding are vanishingly low. Presidents are allowed to use the autopen and courts will not presume a dead-hand conspiracy.”
While other presidents have used autopens, including Trump — who has said he used it on “unimportant” documents — Biden’s became a flashpoint as scrutiny of his mental acuity grew during his tenure.
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The Republican-led House Oversight Committee investigated the matter, interviewing several former Biden staffers. The committee alleged in a report that Biden’s use of the autopen amounted to a scandal and recommended the DOJ investigate further.
“As President Biden declined, his staff abused the autopen and a lax chain-of-command policy to effect executive actions that lack any documentation of whether they were in fact authorized,” the report read.
Trump has been eager to see accountability over the autopen, claiming on social media that any staff who used the autopen on behalf of Biden did so “illegally” and threatening the former president with perjury charges.
Biden has forcefully denied the allegations, saying in a statement last year he was in charge of decision-making.
“Let me be clear: I made the decisions during my presidency,” Biden said. “I made the decisions about the pardons, executive orders, legislation, and proclamations. Any suggestion that I didn’t is ridiculous and false.”
The committee had homed in on Biden’s pardons, including five controversial pardons for his family members in the final days of his presidency, saying there was a lack of “contemporaneous documentation” to corroborate that Biden directly ordered the pardons.
The committee asked the DOJ to investigate “all of former President Biden’s executive actions, particularly clemency actions, to assess whether legal action must be taken to void any action that the former president did not, in fact, take himself.”
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Asked for comment, the White House deferred to the DOJ.
DOJ headquarters declined to comment.
Fox News’ David Spunt and Jake Gibson contributed to this report.
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