Republican congressmen call for Joe Biden to be incapacitated after prosecutor’s report international

On Thursday, people in the United States started talking about the 14th Amendment to the Constitution and ended up talking about the 25th. In the morning, a hearing at the Supreme Court debated whether former President Donald Trump should be disqualified from holding office for his part in the insurrection in the context of the attack on the Capitol on January 6, 2021. In the afternoon, congressional Republicans argued that it was time to invoke the 25th Amendment, whose purpose is to incapacitate the President if he becomes ineligible to hold office. This was inspired by the report of special prosecutor Robert Hur, which portrayed him as “an old man with a bad memory” who did not remember when he was Vice President or when his son died. These mentions, and many similar ones, have angered Biden, his lawyers and Democrats.

The 25th Amendment, passed after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, is a process for replacing the President in the event of death, removal, resignation, or incapacitation. “Does Biden not remember his time as Vice President? But is he qualified to remain president for another 4 years?” asked Senator Josh Hawley of Missouri. “Biden’s new defense in the face of otherwise criminal conduct: He’s an old man unable to remember who he is.” where he is or what he has done,” he insisted. “It’s time for the 25th Amendment,” he said, in reference to the constitutional rule that establishes that the person who holds the office of vice president is subject to the President’s Takes place if he is “unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office.”

“Either Biden is mentally fit to stand trial and be charged with mishandling classified documents during his time as Vice President or he is not fit to serve as President. There is no middle ground,” tweeted New York Congresswoman Claudia Tenney, who called for the application of the 25th Amendment to be explored in a letter addressed to Attorney General Merrick Garland: ”Explore the procedures for removing the President It’s up to you to impose.” According to the 25th Amendment to the United States Constitution. “President Biden needs to be impeached, or removed,” Tenney wrote, according to the text of the letter obtained by conservative Fox.

Indeed, there has been a flood of messages along the same lines: “This report calls Biden a ‘well-intentioned old man with a bad memory.'” This does not describe someone who should be the commander in chief of our armed forces and Must be the defender of American freedom. Senator Rick Scott of Florida wrote that now is the time for his Cabinet to invoke the 25th Amendment. Senator Mike Lee of Utah asked, “If there was ever a time to invoke the 25th Amendment , so won’t it now?” Georgia Representative Mike Collins doesn’t ask, he says: “There has never been a stronger case for the 25th Amendment than now.”

Representative Greg Murphy of North Carolina tweeted, “His current mental and physical condition may prevent him from becoming President of the United States.” “Today’s report from Robert Hur tells us two things: There is a double standard of justice in this country. And Joe Biden is not fit for office,” said Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan. “We must demand that the 25th Amendment be invoked or impeachment (the political process),” tweeted Marjorie Taylor Greene, a Georgia congresswoman and loyal supporter of former President Donald Trump.

“For the safety of our country, Joe Biden must resign,” wrote Republican Representative Mary Miller of Illinois. “He can’t remember basic facts about his life. He is not capable of remaining Commander in Chief and every day he puts the United States in danger. If he does not resign, the cabinet will have to invoke the 25th amendment.

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The prosecutor’s report has angered Democrats, starting with the president himself: “I’m well-intentioned and I’m an older man. And I know what I’m doing. I have been President, I have put this country back on its feet. “I don’t need your recommendation,” Biden said in an appearance at the White House this Thursday. “My memory is fine,” he said in that short press conference, in which at times he showed mental agility, but also made an inexplicable gaffe by calling Egypt “Mexico.”

Biden’s lawyers unsuccessfully requested that some “inflammatory” mentions of the former president’s memory and mental acuity be removed from the report, which they considered inappropriate and a misinterpretation of what happened.

The prosecutor attacks where Democrats lose. Voters believe Biden is too old to run for re-election and a report bearing the Justice Department seal appears to sign off on this, although the author is a lawyer, not a doctor. For Trump, who appointed Hur as a prosecutor, it is the perfect gift in an election year in which he seeks to return to the White House.

Some Democrats have also come out publicly in defense of the president. “He did very well in this discussion with members,” Pennsylvania Rep. Susan Wild told NBC News after meeting with the president on Thursday. “He’s very bright, has no memory problems, and his only stumbles are when he stumbles over words, consistent with his lifelong speech impediment.” When Biden was young, he struggled with stuttering and often made mistakes. However, now those mistakes are used as ammunition against him.

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