Trump installs Walk of Fame with autopen image in Biden's spot

President Donald Trump on Wednesday installed a so-called Presidential Walk of Fame along the exterior of the White House, displaying portraits of past presidents with one notable exception: where a photograph of President Joe Biden would normally appear, officials placed an image of an autopen machine signing Biden's name. The display, mounted on a colonnade adjacent to the West Wing and the Rose Garden patio, was promoted by White House staff on social media ahead of a dinner the president planned to host at the renovated patio that evening.

The substitution appears intended to underscore the president's repeated claims that Biden was not fully in control at the end of his term and that some actions by the Biden administration were carried out using an autopen, a mechanical device that can replicate signatures. Trump has long disputed the outcome of the 2020 election and repeatedly alleged widespread voter fraud; those allegations were rejected by courts and by state and federal election officials. He has also advanced unproven assertions that Biden aides may have used the autopen to sign documents without the president's knowledge and has questioned the validity of pardons...