Former President Joe Biden cabinet officials, the media, and Democrats in Congress were all part of a plan to cover up President Joe Biden's cognitive decline in the White House, Republican senators chairing a Congressional hearing said.
"There was a conspiracy to hide the president's true condition by his family, by his staff, by the media, and many elected officials. This was a constitutional crisis bigger than President Biden, bigger than any single election, and one that cannot be absolved by the collective apology of the press and an election where the president's party lost," Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, said in his opening statement at the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing.
Cornyn said he wants to find out who was actually running the White House during Biden's final months in office.
"We need to know who was in charge during the last months of the Biden administration. Was it his wife, his chief of staff, nameless others?" Cornyn said. "None of these people were elected by the American people, nor were they authorized by the Constitution and laws of the United States to carry out the duties of the president of the United States."
Sen. Eric Schmitt, R-Mo., said Biden was "mentally unfit to carry out the responsibilities of the most powerful office in the world."
"Given his mental incapacity, the American people deserve to know who was running the country the last four years," Schmitt said, noting Biden's decline was obvious to anyone for years.
Sean Spicer, who served as press secretary in the first Trump administration, University of Virginia law professor John Harrison, and Heritage Foundation fellow Theodore Wold testified at the hearing.
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