The Senate Judiciary subcommittee held a listening to Wednesday digging into the cognitive skills of former President Joe Biden and claims of whether or not his aides helped what they are saying was a canopy up of his alleged psychological decline — claims the previous president and plenty of on his employees have denied.
The probe did not uncover any new info on the previous president — with Democratic members of the subcommittee boycotting the listening to.
Democratic senators on the committee walked out of the listening to shortly after it started, with Democratic Sen. Dick Durbin blasting the panel for even holding the listening to, whereas he says a variety of well timed investigations must be happening associated to President Donald Trump’s present actions.
“To date this yr, the Republican majority on this committee has not held a single oversight listening to, regardless of quite a few essential challenges dealing with the nation which can be beneath our jurisdiction,” Durbin mentioned.
The GOP panel repeatedly accused Democrats — and the media — of concealing the previous president’s alleged actual well being circumstances with the intention to stop Trump’s 2024 victory.
“As we speak’s listening to is about competency, corruption and canopy up throughout the Biden administration. Merely put, the final administration was rudderless from one disaster to a different. The Biden Administration failed and folded. The partisan media did their greatest to cowl up these failures,” Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley claimed.
Former White Home Press Secretary Sean Spicer listens to questioning throughout Senate Committee on the Judiciary hearings on how the Biden Cowl-Up Endangered America and Undermined the Structure within the Dirksen Senate workplace constructing in Washington, DC, June 18, 2025.
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Former White Home press secretary Sean Spicer, who was among the many witnesses, in contrast his time working beneath Trump in his first time period to his observations of Biden, praising Trump’s vitality and psychological focus. Spicer by no means labored for the Biden administration.
Spicer additionally criticized “legacy media” for questions raised about Trump’s health for workplace in his first time period, whereas he claims they weren’t questioning Biden the identical method.
“Many, rightly so, imagine the media on this nation is culpable in protecting up the plain decline of the forty sixth president and leaders of the free world — the president of america. The scrutiny that was baselessly directed at President Trump throughout his first time period was wholly absent from the media protection of the Biden White Home,” Spicer claimed.
Republicans on the committee additionally centered on Trump — saying he’s in command and makes skillful choices.
“The general public is relying on us to make sure this by no means occurs once more, as a result of we can’t at all times be lucky sufficient to have a frontrunner like President Trump, who’s so unmistakably in command,” Republican Sen. Eric Schmitt mentioned.
Joe Biden speaks throughout a convention of the Advocates, Counselors and Representatives for the Disabled (ACRD) on the Sofitel Resort in Chicago, Illinois, on April 15, 2025.
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In Might, Senate Republicans announced their plans to launch the probe into Biden’s psychological health whereas in workplace — together with his use of autopen, a mechanical machine to routinely add a signature to a doc that is been utilized by a number of previous presidents, together with Trump in his first time period.
The listening to additionally comes after Trump earlier this month ordered Attorney General Pam Bondi to investigate whether or not Biden’s administration sought to conspire to cowl up his alleged psychological state whereas in workplace. The transfer by the White Home represents a major escalation, as it’s a directive to the Justice Division to formally examine.
Biden responded to the Trump order, saying “Let me be clear: I made the selections throughout my presidency.”
“I made the selections in regards to the pardons, government orders, laws, and proclamations. Any suggestion that I did not is ridiculous and false,” Biden mentioned in a press release.
In Might, Home Oversight Chairman James Comer requested Biden’s White Home doctor, Kevin O’Connor, seem for a transcribed interview as a part of an investigation into Biden’s psychological health and use of a presidential autopen whereas in workplace. Comer requested O’Connor to take a seat for an interview on June 25.
Sean Spicer, Heritage Basis Visiting Fellow for Regulation and Know-how Theodore Wold, and College of Virginia Regulation Professor John Harrison testify throughout a Senate Judiciary Committee listening to on the alleged cowl up of former President Joe Biden’s alleged incapacity to serve on Capitol Hill June 18, 2025.
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The requires the probes into Biden additionally come after the current release of “Original Sin” by CNN host Jake Tapper and Axios reporter Alex Thompson, claiming the Bidens had a “capability for denial and the lengths they’d go to keep away from transparency about well being points.”
In response to the e book’s launch, a Biden spokesman mentioned “there’s nothing on this e book that exhibits Joe Biden did not do his job, because the authors have alleged, nor did they show their allegation that there was a canopy up or conspiracy.”
On Wednesday morning, Trump — who usually criticizes Biden — lambasted the previous president’s use of autopen and claimed that Biden did not have management whereas main the nation.
“All these folks, all of the scum that was across the Oval, you realize, the Oval Workplace, or across the stunning Resolute desk, telling this man right here, ‘Do that,’ ‘Do this,’ and never even inform him. They only go over to the autopen and signal regardless of the hell they wished to signal,” he mentioned.
Trump claimed that it was aides who had been making choices for Biden — using the autopen to hold out an agenda.
“He wasn’t for open borders, he wasn’t for transgender for everyone. He wasn’t for males taking part in in ladies’s sports activities. However he has no concept what the hell — he has no concept,” Trump claimed.
