President Donald Trump announced on Monday that he was nullifying all the last-minute pardons issued by former President Joe Biden using an autopen, an action that is sure to ignite fury from Democrats and a new legal battle.

“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 posted on his Truth Social platform early Monday morning.

“In other words, Joe Biden did not sign them but, more importantly, he did not know anything about them!” he said of the oldest-ever president amid lingering concerns at his age-related mental abilities at 82.

Trump also alleged that the pardons were not actually approved by Biden.

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“The necessary Pardoning Documents were not explained to, or approved by, Biden,” he wrote. “He knew nothing about them, and the people that did may have committed a crime.”

Trump also cautioned that members of the former Jan. 6 House select committee who received pardons from Biden would be “subject to investigation at the highest level.”