New Delhi, March 17 -- US President Donald Trump claimed in a social media post that former President Joe Biden's last-minute pardons are invalid because they were signed using an autopen.

"The 'pardons' that Sleepy Joe Biden gave to the Unselect Committee of Political Thugs, and many others, are hereby declared VOID, VACANT, AND OF NO FURTHER FORCE OR EFFECT, because of the fact that they were done by Autopen," Trump wrote on Truth Social on Monday (March 17).

Biden issued preemptive pardons to several individuals, including:

Biden said these pardons were intended to shield individuals from what he described as politically motivated retaliation.

"These pardons should not be construed as an acknowledgment that any individual engaged i...