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Republican Congressman Guy Reschenthaler has called for President Biden’s immediate resignation following a report suggesting Biden’s mental fitness is inadequate for handling classified documents and nuclear codes.
The report, conducted by Special Counsel Robert Hur, described Biden as an “elderly man with a poor memory.”
Reschenthaler also criticized Biden’s handling of international affairs and military decisions, particularly in Afghanistan and Ukraine.
Despite defense from Biden’s allies and personal attorney, calls for Biden’s resignation persist, with Reschenthaler and others highlighting concerns about his competency as commander in chief.
“Biden should step down immediately. The fact that you have a special counsel report that came out that said that he’s not mentally fit to handle classified documents. This is the guy that has the nuclear codes,” Reschenthaler said.
“Joe Biden lacks the mental fitness to be President of the United States,” Reschenthaler wrote on X. “He doesn’t know when he was Vice President. He has no idea about key events in his personal life. And he has access to our nuclear codes?”
“Biden must resign,” he said.
“This is the guy that is supposed to address all these issues on the international stage, whether it’s the war in Gaza, Houthi rebels firing rockets [at] ships in the Red Sea, an aggressive China, an aggressive Russia, you name it. And we’re supposed to have this guy … that can’t be prosecuted for mishandling classified documents because he’s not mentally fit. I’m sorry, it’s time for him to step down. And the members of the Cabinet should be ashamed of themselves for not bringing forward the 25th Amendment and having the Cabinet remove him from office,” he said.
“We conclude that no criminal charges are warranted in this matter,” the report noted. “We would reach the same conclusion even if the Department of Justice policy did not foreclose criminal charges against a sitting president.”
“President Biden has been a disaster as a commander in chief,” Reschenthaler said. “One of the first things he did was abandon and surrender Afghanistan to the Taliban after 20 years of us being there. And the way he did it was was so naive and so foolish: giving up the Bagram Airbase, giving up air superiority, giving up our ability to have intel. He’s been a disaster.”
“Then you look at what happened in Ukraine. It’s not a coincidence that Russia moved into Ukraine originally under the Obama administration, waited four years, and then had Biden come in and then moved in to take more of Ukraine. It’s because they sense weakness with Joe Biden. Then you have the Iranians sowing discord all over the Middle East … backing Houthi rebels to threaten shipping lanes with the Red Sea. And let’s not forget about China, our No. 1 adversary. Biden is way too friendly toward China. I mean, his son has a $1 billion hedge fund that he got when he came back from China,” Reschenthaler said.
“This is not the man you want in the Oval Office when you’re dealing with all these adversaries.”
“President Biden’s experience, character, and drive have made him the most successful president in modern history, getting the country back on its feet after inheriting a nation in crisis and going on to achieve goals that eluded his predecessors for decades,” a White House memo read.
“He’s smart. He’s on his game,” Biden campaign co-chair Mitch Landrieu said. “And as Secretary Mayorkas said a minute ago, when you go in to brief the president, you better have your big-boy pants on. And this kind of sense that he’s not ready for this job, it’s just a bucket of BS that’s so deep your boots will get stuck.”
“The investigation could have been concluded in two or three months. It went on for over 15 months. And so, along with the legal conclusion comes this flood of characterizations, factual misstatements, pejorative comments about the president that are inconsistent with DOJ policy and norms. And that, as you see over the last 48 hours, have been widely criticized by legal experts. This is not what prosecutors do. It is shoddy work product,” Biden attorney Robert Bauer said.
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