Republican Rep. Claudia Tenney has urged the Cabinet to consider using the 25th Amendment to remove President Biden from office following Special Counsel Robert Hur’s report, which did not recommend criminal charges against Biden for mishandling classified documents.
She expressed concerns about Biden’s mental faculties and selective prosecution.
Rep. Claudia Tenney wrote, “After concluding that President Biden knowingly and willfully removed, mishandled, and disclosed classified documents repeatedly over a period of decades, Mr. Hur nevertheless recommended that charges not be brought against him.”
“Special Counsel’s reasoning was alarming,” she added.
She continued, “He recited numerous instances in which President Biden exhibited dramatically compromised mental faculties and concluded that a jury would be likely to perceive President Biden as a sympathetic and forgetful old man.”
Rep. Tenney emphasized that she “need not tell you that selective prosecution is morally, ethically, and legally prohibited.”
“We don’t prosecute or decline to prosecute people based on their personalities, or on the public’s anticipated perception of them,” explained the lawmaker.
“If Special Counsel finds that the evidence forms a reasonable basis to bring charges, he must do so,” she insisted.
Rep. Tenney argued that the Dept. of Justice “cannot ethically bring charges against former President Trump because he has mental acuity and a forceful personality, and decline to bring charges against President Biden because of his cognitive decline.”
She demanded that Biden “needs to be charged, unless he is not mentally competent to stand trial.”
“Candidly, Special Counsel’s report makes a reasonable case that he is not,” she added.
“Being unable to remember what position he held, and when, is exceptionally concerning. Being unable to remember when one’s child died – even within a time frame of several years – is perhaps more a more damning reflection of his mental impairment,” explained Tenney.
In response, Biden defended himself, stating his memory is fine and rejecting the suggestion that he is unfit for office.
Biden previously said, “I’m the most qualified person in this country to be President of the United States.”
Hur’s report highlighted instances where Biden struggled to recall key details, and the White House defended these memory lapses as common.
Special Counsel Robert Hur wrote, “He did not remember when he was vice president, forgetting on the first day of the interview when his term ended (‘if it was 2013 — when did I stop being Vice President?’), and forgetting on the second day of the interview when his term began (‘in 2009, am I still Vice President?’).”
“He did not remember, even within several years, when his son Beau died,” Hur’s findings continued.
“And his memory appeared hazy when describing the Afghanistan debate that was once so important to him. Among other things, he mistakenly said he ‘had a real difference’ of opinion with General Karl Eikenberry, when, in fact, Eikenberry was an ally whom Mr. Biden cited approvingly in his Thanksgiving memo to President Obama,” added Hur.
“In a case where the government must prove that Mr. Biden knew he had possession of the classified Afghanistan documents after the vice presidency and chose to keep those documents, knowing he was violating the law, we expect that at trial, his attorneys would emphasize these limitations in his recall,” wrote Hur in the report.
Biden faced criticism for misidentifying world leaders and faced questions about his fitness for re-election.
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