Legal Experts Write Off Trump’s Move Against Biden’s Pardons

Trump’s post “is the sort of middle-of-the-night tweet that Trump’s subordinates shouldn’t take seriously,” one said.

President Donald Trump takes part in a signing ceremony in the President's Room.

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Just two days after President Donald Trump delivered a speech at the Justice Department listing out his political enemies, he declared in a midnight post that he had somehow made “VOID” his predecessor’s presidential pardons — a measure that could inch closer to exacting his revenge.

Still raging over the House Jan. 6 Committee, Trump singled out those who served on that temporary panel and threatened to levy criminal charges against them — despite the fact that President Joe Biden pardoned them in the final days of his administration.

Trump claimed that Biden’s use of an electronic signature somehow made it less official.