President Donald Trump alleged Thursday that officials in Joe Biden 's administration might have in effect forged their boss's signature and taken broad actions he wasn't aware of - while acknowledging he had no evidence that actually happened.
Meeting in the Oval Office with German Chancellor Friedrich Merz , Trump repeated his long-standing allegations that the Biden White House relied on an autopen to sign presidential pardons, executive orders and other key documents, and said that cast doubt on their validity.
"Essentially, whoever used the autopen was the president," Trump said. "And that is wrong. It's illegal, it's so bad and it's so disrespectful to our country."
Trump went on to suggest that rogue elements within Biden's administration were faking his signature and governing without his knowledge, pushing the administration farther to the left than the president himself would have gone.
"He didn't have much of an idea what was going on," Trump said.