The Senate Republicans have announced their intention to launch their own investigation into former President Joe Biden for his cognitive capacities during their operation, saying that they wanted to investigate who directed the country during what they call Biden’s decline.
The Republican senses Eric Schmitt and John Cornyn will co -owe a first hearing of the Senate of the Senate of the Senate next month, which, according to them, was covered by media members. The objective echoes the often repeated affirmations of President Donald Trump on the mental form of Biden while the president and criticism of the use by Biden d’Autopen, a mechanical device to automatically add a signature to a document which was used by several ancient presidents, including Trump in his first mandate.
“We must go beyond the failures of the media, which were a legend as you pointed out, or the political question of” were you for Biden or against Biden? It is a constitutional crisis, where we have essentially a mentally incompetent president who is not in charge “, declared Cornyn Thursday on “The Will Cain Show” by Fox News.
“The question is: who is in charge? Who is on the nuclear button or has nuclear codes? Who can declare war? How to defend the nation when we have essentially an absent president? And these are constitutional problems that we must tackle and correct,” said Cornyn.
Friday, after having declared his first public remarks since his office announced that he had been diagnosed with prostate cancer, Biden answered journalists who asked him about the Democrats who say that he should not have introduced himself. “Why did they not run against me then? Because I would have beat them,” said Biden, adding that he has no regrets.
Biden denied any accusation of mental decline, saying that he was proud of his file as president.
The news of the upcoming hearing comes after Cornyn wrote a letter to the Attorney General Pam Bondi last week, urging the Ministry of Justice to investigate whether the Biden administration was legal in the way they presented its cognitive state to the country.
Senator John Cornyn in Washington, December 19, 2024 and President Joe Biden in Washington, September 30, 2024.
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He asked that the Ministry of Justice will open an investigation into “any potential violation of the federal law surrounding the representations made to the American people on the health and well-being” of Biden.
“Congress responsibility is actually greater than that. It involves monitoring and ensuring that there is more transparency for future presidents so that we understand how it happened and how can we prevent it from reproducing,” said Cornyn on Fox News.
Cornyn, in his letter, quoted the report of May 18 of Biden representatives who announced that he had received a diagnosis of aggressive prostate cancer at an advanced stage.
Other Republicans also called for Biden’s health responses during his presidency.
Senator John Cornyn during his meeting with the candidate of the customs commissioner and border patrols, Rodney Scott, in the building of the Hart Senate office, April 7, 2025 in Washington.
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The white house press secretary Karoline Leavitt told journalists on Thursday that former first lady Jill Biden should testify before the Congress for the alleged “concealment” of Biden’s health.
“I think that, frankly, the former First Lady should certainly talk about what she saw with regard to her husband and when she saw him and what she knew,” said Leavitt.
Former President Joe Biden and former First Lady Jill Biden pose for a selfie photo, in this social media photo, published on May 19, 2025.
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“I think that anyone watching the videos and the proofs photo of Joe Biden with your own eyes and a little common sense can see, it was a clear concealment, and Jill Biden was certainly an accomplice of this concealment. There is evidence of documentation and the video of her clearly trying to protect her husband from cameras,” she said.
The chairman of the James Comer Chamber’s supervisory committee, a Republican, recently called a number of high -ranking White House staff to make transcribed interviews surrounding the theme of the alleged drop in Biden.
Commer, addressing Sean Hannity de Fox News on Wednesday, also suggested that he could assign Joe and Jill Biden, as well as the former Chief of Staff of the White House Ron Klain, during the investigation of the Health Chamber and the examination of the former president of his use of an autopen to sign legislation and decrees.
President Joe Biden kisses First Lady Jill Biden after having received a medal for a distinguished public service during a farewell ceremony in the Ministry of Defense in Arlington, Virginie, on January 16, 2025.
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Comer also recently asked that the Blanche de Biden’s White House doctor, Kevin O’Connor, appears for an interview transcribed as part of the investigation.
The calls for probes on Biden come after the release of “Original Sin” by the host of CNN Jake Tapper and the journalist of Axios Alex Thompson, who made claims on “the ability of Deni de Bidens and the durations they would go to avoid transparency on health problems”.
In response to the release of the book, a spokesperson for Biden said: “There is nothing in this book which shows that Joe Biden did not do his job, as the authors alleged him, and they did not prove their allegation according to which there was a cover or a conspiracy.”
“Nowhere do they show that our national security has been threatened or where the president was not otherwise engaged in important questions from the presidency,” the spokesman said in a statement to ABC News. “In fact, Joe Biden was an effective president who directed our country with empathy and competence.”
The best Democrats have largely avoided Biden’s defense as new details surrounding the health of the former president and an alleged concealment have emerged in recent weeks.
The leader of the minority of the Hakeem Jeffries room, when he was asked CNN of the host of CNN Wolf Blitzer on Wednesday if the Democrats can be reliable as new details emerge and have directly bypassed the state of the former president.
“What I can say is that we are not looking back, we will continue to wait impatiently because at the moment, we have real problems which must be resolved in the name of the American people, including the republican effort to snatch health care, to snatch food aid and hurt the veterans,” said Jeffries.
During a recent press conference, Jeffries also accused the Republicans of “pedaling conspiracy theories” “intended to ensure that the country is” back at a time when they really distance the health care of the American people “.
“No, as a Democrats in the Chamber, we will wait forward,” added Jeffries.
The head of the majority in the Senate, Chuck Schumer, also dodged any question on the health of Biden, answering Kasie Hunt of CNN earlier this month saying: “Kasie, we are impatiently waiting for.”
But other Democrats, such as representative Ro Khanna – who defended Biden’s mental and physical form during the 2024 campaign – admitted that he was wrong, but said that there was no concealment before the elections.
“I don’t think it’s a concealment … But I think that advisers and people close to Joe Biden have an explanation … What I don’t think the Democratic Party can do is simply to say:” Let’s talk about the future. Let’s go that, “Khanna told ABC News” this week “, Co-ancré, Jonathan Karl last Sunday.
