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Serious calls for Biden to be yanked under 25th Amend. after special counsel finds him too senile to be charged with his crimes

February 9, 2024 | | Print Article

The results of the special counsel probe into President Joe Biden’s handling of classified materials were finally released and it was a mixed bag for the geriatric Democrat who predictably got off scot-free but for a reason that only confirms the belief of critics that he’s senile to the point where he’s unfit for office.

As if any more evidence of the two-tiered system of justice that now exists in the United States was needed, Biden’s Justice Department found that while he “willfully retained and disclosed classified materials,” that “no criminal charges are warranted” and unlike GOP frontrunner Donald J. Trump who is being prosecuted for the same thing, Biden won’t get so much as a limp slap on the wrist.

If Biden’s supporters were high-fiving after the findings of Special Counsel Robert Hur came out on Thursday, the report described the 81-year-old’s mental state as a confused old man in such bad shape that a jury would find him to be a “sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory” who would likely present himself that way in court as “he did during our interview of him.”

“Based on our direct interactions with and observations of him, he is someone from whom many jurors will want to identify reasonable doubt,” according to the report. “It would be difficult to convince a jury that they should convict him—by then a former president well into his eighties—of a serious felony that requires a mental state of willfulness.”

Some Republicans reacted to Hur’s report by calling for the 25th Amendment to be invoked and for Biden, now confirmed to be senile by his own DOJ, to be ousted from office, an ironic flipping of the script on Democrats who repeatedly called for then-President Donald Trump to be yanked for the same reason.

“This report labels Biden as a ‘well meaning, elderly man with a poor memory,’” Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.) wrote on X. “That does not describe someone who should be the Commander in Chief of our armed forces and the defender of American freedoms. It’s time for his cabinet to invoke the 25th Amendment.”

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“The Special Counsel’s report exposing that Joe Biden’s mental decline is so severe that he can not stand trial means he is unfit for office,” Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) wrote. “We must demand either the 25th amendment be invoked or impeachment.”

Other calls for the 25th Amendment option:

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Already in defensive mode over the elderly leader’s senior moments with the latest being that he’d spoken to two long-dead European leaders in separate speeches this week, Team Biden vehemently rejected Hur’s findings.

“We do not believe that the report’s treatment of President Biden’s memory is accurate or appropriate,” wrote Biden’s personal counsel Bob Bauer, and White House special counsel Robert Sauber in a statement.

“I’m well-meaning and I’m an elderly man and I know what the hell I’m doing,” Biden angrily said during a news conference after the report. “I’ve been president. I put this country back on its feet. I don’t need his recommendation.”

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“The Special Counsel’s finding that President Biden ‘willfully retained and disclosed classified materials’ and engaged in practices that ‘present serious risks to national security’ is deeply disturbing,” said Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) in a statement from the top three House Republicans. “Not only does it demonstrate the President’s recklessness, but exposes a two-tiered system of justice that is indicting one President with politically motivated charges while carrying water for another amid similar allegations.”

“Among the most disturbing parts of this report is the Special Counsel’s justification for not recommending charges: namely that the President’s memory had such ‘significant limitations’ that he could not convince a jury that the President held a ‘mental state of willfulness’ that a serious felony requires. A man too incapable of being held accountable for mishandling classified information is certainly unfit for the Oval Office,” read the statement from Johnson, GOP Majority Whip Rep. Steve Scalise (R-La.), and House Republican Conference Chair Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.)

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