House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA), Conference Chairwoman Elise Stefanik (R-NY), Majority Leader Tom Emmer (R-MN), and House Majority Whip Steve Scalise (R-LA) released a statement calling for President Joe Biden to resign following a report from Special Counsel Robert Hur’s office detailing Biden’s cognitive problems.
“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,” the Republicans wrote.
“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,” they continued.
“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.”
The Republican leaders noted that a “man too incapable of being held accountable for mishandling classified information is certainly unfit for the Oval Office.”
After Hur’s report found that Biden’s “memory was significantly limited,” the president held a press conference to address the findings.
As a reporter said, “American people have been watching and they have expressed concerns about your age…” Biden interjected and said, “That is your judgment!”
“That is not the judgment of the press!”
Biden added that he is the “most qualified person in this country to be President of the United States and finish the job I started.”
