The Justice Department posted pardons online bearing identical copies of Donald Trump’s signature before quietly correcting them this week after what the agency called a “technical error.”

The replacements came after online commenters seized on striking similarities in the president’s signature across a series of pardons dated Nov. 7, including those granted to former New York Mets player Darryl Strawberry, former Tennessee House speaker Glen Casada and former New York police sergeant Michael McMahon.

In fact, the signatures on several pardons initially uploaded to the Justice Department’s website were identical, two forensic document experts confirmed to The Associated Press.

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    Honestly I don’t see why either would matter. If someone made him an e-signature/stamp and he said yeah I want this this and that, I couldn’t care less if assistants put the e-signature in for them. Now if someone used it without consent it would be illegal.

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      The whole autopen was accusing Biden of not knowing who he was pardoning because of the use of autopen.

      This is clearly people being pardoned with no indication of Trump being aware of it happening and Trump has already admitted to pardoning people without knowing who they are.

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      It matters because he’s tried to overturn pardons from Biden for the exact same thing. It’s more of the “every accusation is a confession” and makes people suspect he doesn’t know what is going on