A top Donald Trump aide has accused Senator Elizabeth Warren of controlling Joe Biden’s autopen.
‘Elizabeth Warren controlled the autopen during that administration,’ David Sacks, the White House’s AI czar, said on Jesse Watters Primetime on Tuesday.
An autopen is a device which automatically replicates a person’s signature.
He went on to say that Warren, 75, had a ‘pathological hatred of the crypto community’ and wanted to ‘drive this community offshore.’
The two men were discussing cryptocurrency in the United States when Sacks made the comment regarding Warren.
Sacks did not provide context as to why he believed Warren was behind the autopen. DailyMail.com has reached out to Warren’s office for comment.
Trump had recently said he wants to make the US the ‘crypto capital of the world.’
However, conservative politicians, including Trump, have recently zoned in on Biden’s alleged over usage of an autopen machine.
The Republican leader has declared that his predecessor’s pardons for the January 6 Committee are ‘void’ because he believes Biden used an autopen to sign them.
In one of his final acts as president, Biden pardoned several members of the House committee that investigated the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol to protect against potential ‘revenge’ by Trump.
Trump bragged that he always signs executive orders and other official documents by hand.
However, many have speculated that Trump used the same method to sign the majority of the 1,500 January 6 pardons he signed for rioters on his first day in office.
The obsession with the autopen – which has been used by many presidents, including Barack Obama – came after the conservative Oversight Project revealed that Biden frequently used it.
‘Crooked Joe Biden got us into a real mess with Russia and everything else he did, frankly. But he didn’t know about it and he, generally speaking, signed it with autopen, so how would he know that autopen is a big deal,’ Trump said in a speech at the Department of Justice on Friday.
‘When my people come up,’ to have him sign an executive order, Trump said ‘you don’t use autopen.’
‘Number one – it’s disrespectful to the office,’ he claimed. ‘Number two – maybe it’s not even valid because who’s getting him to sign? He had no idea what the hell he was doing.’
Trump, 78, was at Main Justice on March 9 to deliver remarks on the fentanyl epidemic and southern border crisis.
But the speech quickly turned into a victory lap, where he rubbed the noses of his adversaries into the fact that he won in 2024 and is now back in charge of the country despite efforts to derail his attempts for a second term.
Biden, who at 82 years old is four years Trump’s senior, was lambasted toward the end of his presidency and during the 2024 campaign for his mental and physical decline.
Pro-MAGA figures and supporters often questioned on social media who was ‘controlling’ or ‘pulling the strings’ behind the scenes as they insisted there was no way that Biden was running the show at the White House.
‘WHOEVER CONTROLLED THE AUTOPEN CONTROLLED THE PRESIDENCY,’ the Oversight Project, created buy the Heritage Foundation, wrote in a post on X on Thursday.
‘We 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,’ the group added.
The project shared two examples from documents it claims showed the use of the autopen.
This includes a document from August 2022 as well as one from December 2024. It appears that the signatures are identical in the two examples.
The Oversight Project also posted an image of Biden’s signature in comparison from when he announced he was dropping out of the race in July. That image shows a variation from the other shared documents.
DailyMail.com examined more than 25 Biden executive orders documented in 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 National Archives, however, told fact-checking site Snopes that the ‘White House sends a sample of the President’s signature to the Office of the Federal Register’ at the beginning of every administration.
It uses it to ‘create the graphic image for all Presidential Documents published in the Federal Register.’
The signatures the appear on the Federal Register’s website do not reflect the signatures that appear on the original documents.
The use of an autopen allows for a mechanical device to sign documents rather than an individual taking pen to paper or transmitting an original e-signature. It has been used by presidents and lawmakers for decades.
The first president to use a version of an autopen was Thomas Jefferson. The third US president began using it 1804 and called it the ‘finest invention of the present age,’ according to the National Museum of American History.
The modern version of the machine was first used by Harry Truman, the US’ 33rd president.
The first president photographed using it was 36th President Lyndon B. Johnson, Snopes reported.
However, President Obama was the first president to use it to sign legislation. He used it to sign a four-year extension of the Patriot Act while he was traveling abroad in France.
Republicans called for him to resign the document in his own hand.