by Sharon Rondeau
(May 20, 2025) — In a TruthSocial post time-stamped 3:55 PM EDT, President Donald Trump accused staffers in the Biden administration of “treason at the highest level” for assuming what should have been the president’s responsibilities by utilizing the “the Autopen.”
Earlier on Tuesday at a press conference, Trump said his administration will probe the use of the autopen during while Biden was in the White House. In March, Trump posted that some of the pardons Biden allegedly signed in the last days of his presidency were in fact not signed by Biden and “he did not know anything about them!”
The policy decisions made over the Biden years, Trump said, were not his. “Joe Biden was not for Open Borders, he never talked about Open Borders, where criminals of all kinds, shapes, and sizes, can flow into our Country at will,” Trump wrote. “It wasn’t his idea to Open the Border, and almost destroy our Country, and cost us Hundreds of Billions of Dollars to get criminals out of our Country, and go through the process we are going through now…”
Prior to serving as president from January 20, 2021 to January 20, 2025, Biden had been known as politically “moderate” and ran against Trump under that banner.
While in the U.S. Senate in 2007, Biden said, “No great nation has uncontrolled borders” and supported building a fence along the southern border.
In an article dated May 13, 2021, The Los Angeles Times made the case that Biden campaigned as a “progressive.”
“Biden never concealed his big-government goals; they were all in plain sight in his platform,” the paper wrote, “…Candidate Biden called for more than $4 trillion in new federal spending, beginning with an immediate stimulus to help the economy recover from the COVID-19 pandemic. It included massive proposals to combat climate change, rebuild infrastructure, reduce poverty, subsidize child care and provide universal pre-K education.”
However, the outlet recounted Biden’s previous “moderate” stance as compared to Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), a self-declared socialist who initially appeared likely to win the 2020 Democrat presidential primaries. After Rep. James Clyburn (D-SC6) endorsed Biden, he was jettisoned to victory, handily becoming the Democrat presidential nominee.
After Biden was declared the winner of the November 4, 2020 election, Trump claimed he that significant fraud “stole” from him a second consecutive term, a claim he maintains to this day.
“Over 51 years in politics, Biden has always positioned himself at his party’s center — which has required a steady evolution toward the left,” The Times article further reported.
Days after the election, Biden vehemently claimed to oppose socialism, on the left of the political spectrum, exclaiming, “I beat the socialist. That’s how I got elected. That’s how I got the nomination. Do I look like a socialist? Look at my career – my whole career. I am not a socialist.”
“The people that knew he was cognitively impaired, and that took over the Autopen” effected the dramatic change in U.S. border policy, Trump continued his post. “They stole the Presidency of the United States, and put us in Great Danger. This is TREASON at the Highest Level! They did it to destroy our Country.”
Trump claimed in his March 4 address to Congress that “21 million” people were allowed to cross illegally into the United States, many of whom were criminals and mentally ill.
In 2022, halfway through Biden’s term, several sources reported “11 million” individuals were in the U.S. illegally. Between October 2019 and June 2024, according to USA Facts, “Border officials encountered 11 million unauthorized migrants attempting to enter the US.”
In 2018 a Yale and MIT researcher reported a startlingly different number of illegals present in the U.S. The Hill wrote.
The undocumented population in the United States could be twice as large as the most commonly-used estimate, according to a research study published Friday in the scientific journal Plos One.
The paper, led by Mohammad M. Fazel-Zarandi, a researcher at Yale and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, estimates there are 22.1 million undocumented immigrants in the United States.
Fazel-Zarandi’s study compared inflows and outflows of immigrants as well as demographic data. According to the report, the number of undocumented immigrants could be as low as 16.5 million, or as high as 29.1 million.
In September 2008, two months prior to the election of Barack Obama and Joe Biden, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) issued a report stating:
DHS estimates that the unauthorized immigrant population in the United States increased from 8.5 million in January 2000 to 10.5 million in January 2005, 11.3 million in January 20062, and 11.8 million in January 2007 (see Figure 1). The annual average
net increase in the unauthorized population during this 7-year period was 470,000.
Obama/Biden served from January 2009 to January 2017. In February 2011, DHS reported:
The unauthorized immigrant population living in the United States stood at 10.8 million in January 2010, unchanged from a year earlier but 8 percent below the peak of 11.8 million in January 2007 (see Figure 1). Between 2000 and 2007, the unauthorized population increased by 3.3 million, equivalent to an average annual increase of 500,000 per year. The number of unauthorized residents then decreased to 11.6 million in 2008 and 10.8 million in 2009. The 1.0 million decline between 2007 and 2009, in the midst of the economic recession in the United States, was not likely due to sampling error. Changes in the ACS, e.g., revisions in the question on Hispanic origin in 2008 and measurement of net international migration, may have had an impact on the 2009 estimate and thus the magnitude of change between 2007 and 2009.
Obama was often referred to as the “deporter-in-chief.” In January 2017, Migration Policy Institute reported:
Over the course of the Obama administration there was a pronounced shift in focus to the removal of recent border crossers and criminals rather than ordinary status violators apprehended in the U.S. interior. The underlying reasoning was to deter illegal border crossing and remove unauthorized immigrants before they become integrated into U.S. communities.
As Biden announced his choices for cabinet positions after taking office, he was accused of abandoning the progressives who supported him.
In July 2024, Biden announced he would withdraw from the presidential race after a disastrous debate with Trump the month before, eliciting doubts from across the political spectrum that he was capable of serving another term or completing the current one.
Several tell-all books have since been published alleging a dysfunctional Biden and White House aides protecting and guiding him in his daily responsibilities.
In concluding his post, Trump wrote of Biden, “All anyone has to do is look up his record. Something very severe should happen to these Treasonous Thugs that wanted to destroy our Country, but couldn’t, because I came along. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!”
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