Couric on Trump autopen display: ‘I’ve kind of gone beyond trying to be impartial’
Journalist Katie Couric went after President Trump for a recent display at the White House that targeted former President Biden.
“That is so creepy. And I mean, I’m sorry, I’ve kind of gone beyond trying to be impartial here, Jonathan, because his behavior is so beyond the pale,” Couric said while talking with ABC News’s Jonathan Karl on her “Next Question with Katie Couric” podcast.
“This autopen — so, he posts, or he places presidential portraits along the hallway leading to the Oval Office, and the one he puts up of Joe Biden is an autopen,” she added in the Thursday episode, which was highlighted by Mediaite.
Photos and videos of the display from the White House feature gold frames of previous presidents. However, for Biden, the White House framed an “autopen” photo.
Trump and those around him have intensely focused on the former president’s use of the autopen, a tool that allows for signatures on official documents to be made in place of a handwritten signature.
The current president and others have cited the use of the autopen by Biden to push questions about his mental abilities while he was the president and about whether other aides were making key decisions on pardons and other matters.
The Hill has reached out to the White House for comment.
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