REPUBLICANS are sharing video evidence of Biden’s cognitive decline over his presidency in a congressional hearing.
The Senate Republicans held a hearing on Wednesday to argue that the Democratic Party tried to cover up former President Joe Biden’s diminishing physical and mental state.
Texas Republican Senator John Cornyn and Missouri Republican Senator Eric Schmitt were the co-chairs of the Senate Judiciary Hearing.
The hearing investigated “what exactly went on” during the Biden presidency and why the constitutional power to remove him from office wasn’t put into action.
During the hearing, the Republicans called the Democratic Party’s alleged cover-up “The Great Deception.”
Republican senators claimed the Democrats were conspiring to deceive Americans into believing Biden was mentally fit to serve as commander-in-chief.
Senators presented a video of Biden’s mental slips as evidence in the hearing, starting with the 2024 presidential debate between Donald Trump and Joe Biden.
In the clip, Biden stumbles over his words while discussing the pandemic and Medicare.
“Look, if we finally beat Medicare,” Biden said during the debate.
In another clip from the debate, Biden looks lost as he fumbles his words a second time.
The short video package ended with the words “The Biden Cover-Up” appearing on the screen.
At the time, members and commentators of the Democratic Party defended Biden’s mental state.
CNN host Jake Tapper ripped into Lara Trump, who suggested that Biden’s mental health was on the decline in 2020.
“Every time he comes on stage and they turn to him, I’m like, ‘Joe, can you get it out. Let’s get the words out,'” Lara said on his show.
“I think you were mocking his stutter…And I think you have absolutely no standing to diagnose somebody’s cognitive decline,” Tapper replied.
Five years later, Tapper told viewers that he apologized to Lara Trump for correcting her.
The apology announcement comes just before he released his book with Axios reporter Alex Thompson, Original Sin, which alleged that the White House was well aware of Biden’s mental state.
The Republican Party is now arguing that Biden’s decline started way before the 2024 presidential debate, just as Lara suggested.
Timeline of Biden's failed re-election bid
President Joe Biden endured weeks of calls to step aside before he announced on July 21 that he was dropping out of the 2024 presidential race. Here are key developments leading up to his decision.
June 27: Biden’s disastrous debate performance against Donald Trump sparks calls for him to step aside. His voice was raspy and he trailed off several times after having already endured questions about his age and mental capacity following a series of blunders at public events.
July 2: Polls after the debate indicate that Trump is pulling ahead. Texas Representative Lloyd Doggett was the first Democratic congressman to publicly urge Biden to drop his bid for re-election, and big Democratic donors issued the same call a day later.
July 5: Biden does a live TV interview with George Stephanopoulos where he tries to quell fears about his age and debate performance. He called the debate “bad night” and said he was under the weather and “exhausted.”
July 10: Vermont Senator Peter Welch becomes the first senator to call for Biden to drop out.
July 11: Biden refers to Ukrainian President Zelensky as President Putin at a NATO event.
July 13: Trump is shot at a campaign rally by a wannabe assassin. His popularity and favorability rating soared after he was seen bloodied on stage but walked off with a fist in the air, telling the crowd to “fight!”
July 17: California Representative Adam Schiff and a series of other Democrats call for Biden to step aside. Even former President Barack Obama tells allies that Biden’s path to victory has “greatly diminished.” Biden tests positive for Covid-19 hours after saying he would consider ending his bid if he were diagnosed with “some medical issue.”
July 19: Biden insists he will continue campaigning in his first statement since Obama’s U-turn, despite reports that he would decide to drop out by the weekend.
July 21: Just before 2 pm, Biden announces he is stepping aside in the 2024 election and endorses Vice President Kamala Harris.
“President Biden’s decline did not suddenly begin in June 2024,” a spokesperson said during the hearing.
“It was a persistent and obvious truth that was obvious for years to anyone who was willing to see it.”
Early on in the meeting, the Republicans showed a timeline of the presidents, but put a photo of silhouettes in the place of where Biden would be.
Under the photo, the Republicans wrote “Liberal Staffers.”
Prior to the start of the hearing, Cornyn said that it had been obvious “for many months” that “the president was simply not up to the task.”
“Whoever happened to be making those decisions and carrying out the duties of the Office of President was not somebody who was authorized by the Constitution or by a vote of the American people.”
The hearing, dubbed Unfit to Serve: How the Biden Cover-Up Endangered America and Undermined the Constitution, included several witnesses who served during President Trump’s first term as well as the Bush and Reagan terms.
Democratic leaders, however, deny these allegations and oppose the hearing.
“We have so many important topics to consider, and this is a totally political undertaking by several of my colleagues,” Illinois Democratic Senator Dick Durbin said.
“It is a waste of the Senate Judiciary Committee’s time.”
