The president has said the previous administration used the device to sign executive orders and pardons that President Joe Biden wasn’t aware of — a claim Biden vigorously denies.

Biden has denied the allegations and the Justice Department's legal counsel have endorsed autopens as lawful for signing bills into law, but Trump claimed during an Oval Office session with reporters that the use of the tool was the "biggest scandal maybe in the last 100 years" of this country.

Since taking office, Trump has repeatedly suggested without evidence that Biden’s aides used an autopen to put his signature on presidential orders without his knowledge.