Senate Republicans are gearing up for the first full-scale congressional hearing into the alleged cover-up of former President Joe Biden\u2019s cognitive decline.<\/p>\n
Senators John Cornyn, R-Texas., and Eric Schmitt, R-Mo. will co-chair a Senate Judiciary Hearing Wednesday that delves into ‘what exactly went on’ during Biden\u2019s term and why the constitutional power to remove him from office wasn\u2019t triggered.<\/p>\n
Cornyn said on the Senate floor that one of the main goals of the hearing was to shine a light on what happened behind the scenes during landmark moments of Biden\u2019s presidency, ‘from the Biden border crisis to the disastrous results from the withdrawal in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
‘And it’s now clear that for many months \u2014 no one knows exactly how long \u2014 the president was simply not up to the task,’ he said. ‘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.’<\/p>\n
Cornyn and Schmitt\u2019s hearing, first announced late last month, will be held after the release of the book ‘Original Sin’ by CNN host Jake Tapper and Axios reporter Alex Thompson, which alleges the Biden White House was trying to control the narrative about the former president\u2019s health and that his allies worked to cover up his decline.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
The hearing, ‘Unfit to Serve: How the Biden Cover-Up Endangered America and Undermined the Constitution,’ features a trio of witnesses called by the Senate Republican duo who served during President Donald Trump\u2019s first term and during the Reagan and Bush years.<\/p>\n
Among the Republicans\u2019 witnesses are Theodore Wold, who formerly served as acting assistant attorney general in the Office of Legal Policy at the Justice Department and deputy assistant to the president for domestic policy during the Trump administration; Sean Spicer, former White House press secretary and communications director; and John Harrison, a legal scholar from the University of Virginia School of Law who previously served during former the Reagan and Bush administrations.<\/p>\n
Wold and Harrison told Fox News Digital their testimony would focus on Biden\u2019s alleged usage of an autopen, a device that is used to automatically mimic a person\u2019s signature, typically used signing of numerous documents, and how the usage of the device may have acted as a smokescreen to prevent the triggering of the 25th Amendment.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Biden has rejected assertions by lawmakers and Trump that he habitually used an autopen. Trump recently ordered Attorney General Pam Bondi to open an investigation into whether the former president\u2019s aides ‘abused the power of Presidential signatures through the use of an autopen to conceal Biden’s cognitive decline.’<\/p>\n
Spicer\u2019s testimony will focus on the media\u2019s treatment of Trump compared to Biden during their respective first terms and how some media outlets were allegedly ‘silent’ when it came to signs of the ex-president\u2019s decline.<\/p>\n
Democrats on the panel did not call any witnesses.<\/p>\n
The top-ranking Democrat on the committee, Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., contended that Cornyn and Schmitt were wasting the panel\u2019s time with their endeavor.<\/p>\n
‘We have so many important topics to consider, and this is a totally political undertaking by several of my colleagues,’ he said. ‘It is a waste of the Senate Judiciary Committee\u2019s time.’ <\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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