President Donald Trump signed pardons on January 20, 2025, granting clemency to over 1,500 individuals convicted or charged in connection with the January 6, 2021, Capitol riot. These pardons were issued by Executive Order on the same day Trump signed a total of 26 Executive Orders.
Images circulating online (taken from the Federal Register, a branch of the National Archives) have led some social media users to speculate that the president used an autopen rather than signing them by hand.
This follows Trump declaring on Truth Social that President Joe Biden's preemptive pardons for the January 6 Committee are "void," because of his belief that Biden signed those pardons with an autopen.
