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Senator Josh Hawley has joined the chorus of Republicans calling on Democrats to do the “patriotic” thing by invoking the 25th Amendment against President Joe Biden following Representative Claudia Tenney's formal request for the Attorney General to explore that option.
To no one's surprise, Biden's fellow Democrats remained silent about invoking the amendment they often cited as a way to remove former President Donald Trump from the White House.
Concerns have been raised to a high level regarding President Biden's mental capacity following the publication of Special Counsel Robert Hoare's report detailing his mishandling of classified documents.
The report indicated that Biden will not be charged in this matter because he is a “well-intentioned elderly man with a weak memory” and it will be difficult to convince a jury to convict a person with such weakness.
According to the report, Biden “did not remember when he was vice president” or “when his son Beau died,” and showed “diminished abilities” and “significant limitations” during his interview with the special counsel.
Tenney (R-N.Y.) was the first to sound the alarm in a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland obtained by Fox News.
Tenney described Hur's reasons for not indicting Biden in the classified documents case as “troubling” and noted that if the president is not “mentally competent to stand trial,” he “appears to lack the capacity to carry out his presidential responsibilities.”
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Republicans are calling for the 25th Amendment to be invoked against Biden
Aside from the special counsel's report suggesting that Biden's mental capacities were too diminished to be convicted at trial despite “knowingly retaining and disclosing classified material,” the president has been publicly engaging in increasingly disturbing mental lapses.
Biden twice claimed that he spoke with former German Chancellor Helmut Kohl, who died in 2017, about the January 6 riots at the Capitol in 2021, and insisted that he spoke with former French President Francois Mitterrand, who died in 1996.
Biden then angrily confronted the media about his memory problems, saying: “I know what the hell I'm doing,” before immediately referring to Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi as “the president of Mexico” and declaring himself the leader of both. Red and green countries.
That was all just this week.
With this amount of work, Republicans demanded that President Biden invoke the 25th Amendment.
“Biden is either mentally capable of standing trial and should be charged with mishandling classified documents as vice president, or he is unfit to serve as president,” Tenney said. Written on X, formerly known as Twitter. “There is no common ground.”
Rep. Mary Miller (R-Ill.) agrees.
“For the safety of our nation, Joe Biden must resign. He could not remember basic facts about his life. “He is not qualified to remain commander-in-chief, and every day he remains puts America at risk,” she wrote. “If he does not resign, the Cabinet must invoke the 25th Amendment.”
“Biden's mental deterioration is so severe that he cannot stand trial, which means he is unfit for office,” said Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.).
“We must either invoke the 25th Amendment or remove it.” she added.
Joe Biden is unable to stand trial because of all the secret documents he stole after leaving office as Senator and Vice President, yet he is able to carry the nuclear ball?
Joe Biden is not qualified to serve as President of the United States!
Two solutions: the 25th Amendment or impeachment. pic.twitter.com/UADuCfjRfK
– Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (@RepMTG) February 9, 2024
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Hawley to Democrats – Do the patriotic thing
Pointing to the fact that Democrats who once heralded about the 25th Amendment during President Trump's term have suddenly fallen silent, Senator Hawley urged them to finally take a stand on the clear elder abuse taking place on the world stage.
He asked: “Who will be the first national Democrat in Congress to declare the obvious and, for the good of the country, invoke the Twenty-fifth Amendment to the Constitution?”
Tenney told The Policy Insider that there is one Democrat who might consider joining her position on invoking the 25th Amendment against Biden — “(Representative) Dean Phillips.”
Phillips, who represents Minnesota's 3rd District and is a longtime Democratic presidential candidate, responded to the special counsel's report by calling it “another sad day for America.”
Despite not referring to the 25th Amendment, Phillips insists that President Biden cannot be allowed to serve a second term.
“The report simply confirms what most Americans already know, which is that the President cannot continue to serve as our commander in chief after his term expires on January 20, 2025,” Phillips said.
“This report is already facing the lowest approval ratings in modern history, losing in every key battleground state, and has handed the 2024 election to Donald Trump if Joe Biden is the Democratic nominee — and I'm calling on my fellow Democrats to face the truth,” he continued.
Instead, most avoid the discussion while a select few awkwardly defend the president. Andrew Weinstein, chairman of the Democratic National Committee's Board of Attorneys, spoke passionately about Biden's record despite his apparent mental disability.
“Joe Biden is honest, transparent, empathetic, selfless, and patriotic, and is arguably the most accomplished first-term president in modern American history. This works for me,” he wrote on X.
Weinstein has turned off comments on his X account, a wise move to protect his ill-advised claims.
After a closed question-and-answer period with Democratic lawmakers in which Biden made his comment about “green states” and called the landmark abortion issue “Roe v. Ward,” Rep. Susan Wild (D-Pa.) loudly defended the commander-in-chief.
“He did well in this discussion with members,” Wilde told NBC News. “He is very intelligent, has no memory problems, and his only stumble is when he stumbles over words that match the speech impediment he has suffered from all his life.”
Oh, it's good to see the bumbling defense back in play, something Democrats and the media return to again and again when they have to defend Biden's “gaffes.”
In a 2019 interview with “Axios on HBO,” the president insisted that his verbal errors had nothing to do with a speech impediment he overcame as a child.
“Look, the mistakes I make are mistakes. Some people think I still stutter. I don't think of myself that way.”
Nor should anyone else. Twenty-fifth Amendment. now.
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