Bonus: Media’s Role in Biden’s Decline "Only Good Four Hours a Day"
In this episode of Verdict with Ted Cruz: Criticism of Jake Tapper and Mainstream Media: Cruz and Ferguson accuse Tapper and CNN of knowingly covering up Biden’s mental deterioration. They mock Tapper’s role in the book, likening it to an arsonist writing about fire prevention. Biden’s Cognitive Decline: The podcast discusses alleged incidents of Biden’s confusion, memory lapses, and diminished capacity. They reference reports from cabinet members and the Department of Justice suggesting Biden was mentally unfit. Media and Political Hypocrisy: The hosts argue that Democrats and media figures lied to the public about Biden’s condition. They cite examples of politicians like Chuck Schumer and Jake Sullivan allegedly dodging accountability. Autopen and Presidential Authority: Cruz raises concerns about the use of an autopen to sign official documents, questioning the legality and legitimacy of such actions. Obama’s Alleged Influence: The podcast speculates that Barack Obama and his former staffers were effectively running the Biden administration. Personal Anecdotes: Cruz shares a story about Biden swearing him into the Senate and a humorous moment involving his daughter. The hosts joke about Cruz’s wife and discuss podcasting habits. Please Hit Subscribe to this podcast Right Now. Also Please Subscribe to the 47 Morning Update with Ben Ferguson and the Ben Ferguson Show Podcast Wherever You get You're Podcasts. Thanks for Listening Be sure to follow and subscribe to Verdict with Ted Cruz wherever you get your podcasts. And don’t forget to follow the show on social media so you never miss a moment! YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@VerdictwithTedCruz/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/verdictwithtedcruz X: https://x.com/tedcruz X: https://x.com/benfergusonshow See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
It is Verdic with Senator Ted Cruz, Ben Ferguson with you.
And Senator, it is a very big week for putting out books that are full of crap.
It truly is stunning.
So Jake Tapper from CNN has a book along with Alex Thompson from Axios.
The book is entitled Original Sin: President Biden's Decline, Its Cover Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again.
And when you talk about full of crap, I really don't think you're being fair to crap.
Like, like this is this is like a book, Arsonist discovers a fire he started.
This is like a book, Tony Montana, the drug dealer, says cocaine is bad for you.
Like, yes, Jake, there was a cover-up.
An absolute, complete, total cover-up.
It was knowing, it was deliberate, and you did it.
You, Jake Tapper and CNN were 24-7 engaged in the cover-up.
You knew about his mental decline, and you refused to tell anybody.
It's shocking just how bad it was.
And by the way, we have the receipts just to remind people.
No, no, you're you're you're going to hear the proof momentarily.
Yeah, and we're gonna get to that because I want everyone, and this is why we do the show, this is why we do this podcast.
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All right, so let's go back to this lie that uh I I think the part that blows my mind the most is the fact that Tapper's actually probably gonna get a bestseller out of this.
Everyone in the media is praising him for this incredible reporting.
And this is the guy that literally helped cover up the cognitive decline and dismissed anyone who brought it up on his show.
So so look, the the book, as I understand it, was originally written by Alex Thompson.
Alex Thompson is not nearly as well known as Jake Tapper.
Yep.
And he had a contract with the book publishing company.
He wrote the book, and then the book publishing company decided to cancel it and said, No, we're not gonna publish this book after all.
In other words, the book publishing company engaged in yet another cover-up because they didn't want anyone to know.
And and so Thompson sought out Tapper and convinced Tapper, hey, join with me.
You're a big famous guy, they'll publish it if your name's on it.
And and Tapper said yes.
And and I gotta say, so there are lots of.
Never got a crisis good or waste, right?
That's exactly look, and particularly a chance to make some good money.
I mean, hey, what's what's journalism all about if if not monetizing your own hypocrisy and your own cover-up?
Look, Tapper, some of the facts that are coming out in this book.
In 2023 and 2024, Tapper and Thompson report.
Uh Biden's physical deterioration was so severe that his advisors discussed the possibility he would need to use a wheelchair if he won re-election.
That's that's how bad it was.
And and yet, every time anyone tried to bring up those facts, Jake Tap and the rest of the corporate media covered it up.
But don't take my word for it.
Listen to Jake Tapper in his own words.
This is a collection of Tper over the years.
And this goes back to 2020.
The very beginning is him talking to one of the Trump family members, Laura Trump, and he actually like ends the interview.
Like you can't even say this on my show.
So so this the this montage starts in 2020, then goes to 21, 22, 23, and then 24, all throughout.
Listen, Tapper for five years covered this up aggressively.
Give a listen.
How do you think it makes little kids with stutters feel when they see you make a comment like that?
It's very clearly a cognitive decline.
And that's what I'm referring to.
It makes me uncomfortable.
You are no above.
And try and figure out an answer.
A cognitive decline.
President Biden embraces his stutter talking about it while Trump mocks it, exaggerates it, belittles it.
He's sharp physically.
I mean, uh uh mentally.
Yeah.
I think the question is physically, right?
Right.
And the guy who's his chief uh opponent is only three or four years younger than him.
I mean, you have questioned President Biden's age, mental fitness, ability to lead of those supporting Biden.
You said, quote, shame on all of you, pretending everything is okay, you're leading us and him into a disaster.
Do you worry that you damaged him at all?
I don't doubt that that you got hugs and and and handshakes behind closed doors today, and maybe maybe even publicly, some of them because they like you personally.
But uh I've heard a lot of really nasty stuff about you from your democratic colleagues.
I mean, just like what is he thinking, uh exercise in narcissism, I mean false claims to the Wall Street Journal about President Biden's mental fitness and acuity.
He's eighty-one, and his memory, you know, it doesn't seem great, it's not horrible, but I I don't understand the outrage.
Quote behind closed doors, Biden's shows signs of slipping.
Unquote.
The Wall Street Journal was owned by News Corps, which is run by the Murdochs.
Beyond the headline, there is some critical nuance here.
The article is mostly based on observations of Republicans, with former Speaker Kevin McCarthy the only one going on the record.
They do note in the article that most of the criticism comes from Republicans.
Have you heard any concerns from anyone who has met with President Biden about him seeing seeming a little slower?
No.
The Russians are trying to do to make us and the public not trust the R election integrity.
Joe Biden has dementia and all this stuff.
Let's just stop there and give the title of the book again, Senator, so people understand what they just heard and now what he's writing.
Because if you just look at the title of the book, you understand the the the debauchery of journalistic scumbaggery.
The title of the book is Original Sin.
President Biden's decline, its cover-up, and his disastrous choice to run again.
And understand Jake Tap, when he was saying that, he was lying.
He knew he was lying.
Everyone else on CNN knew he was lying.
They knew they were lying.
Everyone on MSNBC knew they were lying.
Everyone on ABC NBC CBS knew they were lying.
Everyone at the New York Times knew they were lying.
Everyone at the Washington Post knew they were lying.
Everyone knew this.
Look, one of the facts in his book, he says that at a fundraiser in June of 2024, Joe Biden didn't recognize George Clooney, who he's known for decades.
He had no idea.
Just Clooney, by the way.
He had to be introduced.
Like Ocean's Eleven.
What is there?
A casino you're robbing?
I don't understand.
Like Biden had no idea.
This is the same fundraiser you remember where Barack Obama had to lead Biden off the stage because he was just confused and staring out in space.
And Tapper and the rest of them just lied to us and said, A okay, no problems here.
You go back, Senator, to what you just said a moment ago, and it's a great point here.
Uh and it's one about the the fact that they were at this fundraiser, and the president didn't know like who George Clooney was.
You have Barack Obama having to walk him off stage.
Like that was when everyone and in his in his realm that they were even trying to, I think, until they protect him from.
They all knew then, like this is a disaster, and yet they still went full speed ahead with it.
No, that's exactly right.
Uh you know, the Babylon B had a great headline that that that summed up this book.
So the Babylon B's headline was quote Jake Tapper uncovers startling evidence that Biden's decline was covered up by Jake Tapper.
And that's exactly what his book is.
And listen, listen to this week, Chuck Schumer, because it wasn't just Jake Tapper that was lying.
Every Democrat was lying, every Democrat senator, every Democrat governor, every Democrat House member.
They all knew Biden was seriously declining mentally, and they all covered it up.
Schumer was one of the most shameless because he he gave his own personal guarantee about how quick Biden was.
And listen this week when when finally the media confronts him about his lies, listen to what Chuck Schumer says.
I found the command impressive and yielded influence between Congress on key priorities.
But in that same month, Biden apparently did not even recognize George Wood being a fundraiser.
Were you being straight with the American public thing?
We're just looking forward to it.
I mean, it's the best answer I've ever heard from a politician We're just looking forward.
Hey, we're we gotta go.
We're just looking forward, and I'm walking off stage.
Like we're just looking forward.
I I I mean so Governor, t tell me about the dead body that we found in your house.
We're just looking at the city.
So Governor, tell me about the the cocaine in the White House.
Let's just use that.
We're just looking forward to it.
We're just moving forward, guys.
Schumer not the tiniest bit of accountability, not the Oh, yeah, it's not just we're moving forward of forward.
The Democrats in 2025.
You know, it reminded me back uh if you remember when Mitt Romney ran for president against Barack Obama.
Yes.
And Harry Reed went and and lied and claimed that Mitt Romney hadn't paid income taxes.
And he just flat out lied.
And he did it on the Senate floor.
You know why I did it on the Senate floor?
Because you can't argue back with him, right?
Well, that's true, but there's another reason he did it on the Senate floor, because the Constitution has a provision called the speech and debate clause that that that immunizes members of Congress for speech and debate on the Senate floor.
He did it so no one could sue him.
So Mitt Romney couldn't sue him for for defamation because he was lying.
And he didn't say it on TV.
Interesting.
And after the election, they asked Carrie Reid about, wait, you you were lying, you had no evidence.
And and and Harry Reid, who was then the Democrat Senate Majority Leader, he said, Well, Romney didn't win, did he?
Like it's the same thing as Chuck Schumer.
We're just looking forward.
All right, listen to now Biden's national security advisor, Jake Sullivan, who who worked with Biden every day in the White House and so knew to an absolute certainty that that Biden was severely mentally declining.
But listen to what what Jake Sullivan said.
What happened in that debate was a shock to me.
I think it was a shock to everybody.
And I've I've made that point before.
Um, just finally, do you think in retrospect, given everything that's happened, everything we've talked about today, it was a mistake for President Biden to try to run again.
One of the things about being national security advisor is um that you're mercifully insulated from politics and political decision making.
I was insulated from it to the point where while I was national security advisor, uh my spouse was running for Congress, and I had strict rules about what I could even do to support my spouse, let alone be involved in political decision making, political calls in the White House.
So I have not weighed in on those issues and would not weigh in on those issues.
Let's let's just be clear.
I've known National Security Advisors.
That is the biggest load of crap I've ever heard.
I'm just gonna point out something really funny.
There's something about Democrat men that makes them weenies.
Yeah.
So he says, My spouse was running for Congress.
So he is actually married to a woman.
Yep.
Ben, can you imagine any circumstance in which you refer to your wife as my spouse?
I mean, isn't like I don't know a man who refers to his wife as my spouse who's running for Congress, my wife who was running for Congress.
Like that for the love of my life.
Like the way like normal human beings would communicate, but but not Democrat apparatus.
You better believe that.
Do I know you well or do I know you well?
Any any chance to praise Praise your wife, not your spouse.
Yes, my my smoking hot wife is exactly uh exactly the way to put it.
I set you up for success there.
I just want to know if there's anything we're gonna you should clip from this pod and send to your wife, be like, go to this minute mark in the pod, honey, you made the podcast.
Actually, look, as you know, Heidi lists to the podcast.
So that'll be she'll she'll be listening.
Let's see.
See, this is a litmus test.
I one day I said something about my wife in my show, and I wanted to see if she heard it.
And like her friends text her, like, Ben said something about you.
And she's like, What'd you say about me, Dad?
I was like, Well, if you listen to the show, you would have known.
It was like a great, you know.
That was a mistake.
Don't do that.
I told you so.
You will only put it on.
Yeah, I'm just saying.
I'm just saying.
Uh I I I want to ask you uh on a on a very serious note here.
You look at the hypocrisy, but the most disturbing thing for me coming out of this book and out of the Axios reporting is that the cabinet members worried about his capacity specifically in a crisis.
Now, there's been interesting reporting, and I'm just want to put it in perspective.
He has the bad debate.
There was real conversations we were told, and there's reporting on this about the possibility of invoking the twenty-fifth.
Not because they were afraid, I go back to the i i you know, worried about the capacity in a crisis.
They just didn't want to lose the election.
It was all politics.
They were perfectly fine having someone with dementia who was not capable of decision making as president as commander in chief.
So so this this Jake Tapper comedy book uh includes the revelation that multiple cabinet members were worried that he could not uh be relied on in a time of crisis because his mental diminution was so so great.
One cabinet secretary said Biden's top aides, quote, shielded him in every meeting from October 2023 on, quote, the cabinet was kept at bay.
Another quote, for months we didn't have access to him.
There was clearly a deliberate strategy by the White House to have him meet with as few people as necessary.
Another cabinet secretary says at one w rare meeting during the time, uh that cabinet secretary was quote shocked by how the president was acting.
He was seemed disoriented and out of it, his mouth agape.
They knew they were worried, and you know what?
If our enemies attacked us, this was the commander in chief that the Democrats and CNN and the lying corporate media was telling us could protect us, and and look, I don't know that I'd trust him to operate the remote control on the television set.
By the way, are they gonna put this under fiction or nonfiction?
That's what I want to know when you go to the store, right?
If you go look for it, like well, sadly, I think they'll put it on under nonfiction, which they should, because it is true that Joe Biden's has had a massive mental deterioration.
What they should put under fiction is what Jake says on TV every day.
That's the fiction part.
The irony is this may be the one true thing Jake J Jake Tapper has has written or said in the last couple of years.
That's actually true.
It was someone else who wrote it and Tapper put his name on it.
Name on it, yeah.
But but by accident, he he told the truth, except for the fact that he didn't admit that he's been lying to the country the entire time Biden was in the White House.
So let's go back to the cabinet members, because this is the big question.
I I was doing Fox and I Waters World, Kelly McKinney was filling in for White House press secretary, and she was talking about then when when some of this was starting to break.
And I and I said, Look, the headlines are amazing, but I said the real question that I think we should all be asking, and I want your take on this is if all this is true, and I have no reason to believe it's not, who the hell was the president of the United States of America?
Who was running the country?
Was it 30 people that were elected by no one?
I don't think it was one person.
I think there's a very good chance that the FBI was the president of the FBI and the DOD was the president.
I mean, who the hell was running the country?
I don't think so, actually.
That's what I'm gonna ask.
I I've been asked that question probably a thousand times.
And I'm gonna give you the most terrifying answer you could imagine.
I don't know.
Okay.
I genuinely don't know.
I think it was Barack Obama.
I think it was Barack Obama, Barack Obama.
Certainly his minions is the only president in modern times who at the end of his presidency stayed in DC, bought a big house in Kalorama every night their cars in the driveway, and all of his little apparatchic minions are in the White House, and I think it was a combination of the city.
When when Joe Biden's White House was filled with staffers, I want people to understand this.
This is well reported, but this is really important right now for this story.
It was well reported on that Biden and his team were the one that placed everyone in the positions of power in the Biden.
I mean, Obama, I should say, excuse me.
Obama and his team placed everyone basically in position of powers in the Biden administration.
So look, in In in four years of the Biden presidency, I'm in the Senate the whole time.
How many times do you think I spoke with Joe Biden while he was president?
I would say one to three.
Zero.
And I was saying one to three because I thought they were protecting him.
So you're saying as a senator, and that's not normal.
People need to understand that.
Not a single time, and that is bizarre.
How many times with Obama, for example?
Lots of times.
I mean, I mean, I spoke I spoke with Obama regularly with Trump.
I speak with him often every week, sometimes multiple times a week.
Uh it is part of the job of being a senator to to to work with the president, to talk with the president.
Even the president of the opposing party.
Were there ever big laws with Obama, for example?
I'm trying to really paint a picture here of how insane it is you didn't talk to him for four years.
It's bizarre.
And the thing to understand is we all know Joe Biden.
He was in the Senate for 40 years.
He was a man of the Senate.
When I was first elected the Senate in 2012, Joe Biden swore me in.
In fact, I'll tell you Without the cognitive decline.
And he was fine.
No, when he was vice president, uh, thirteen years ago, he did not have cognitive decline.
And and in fact, it w it was funny.
So my my girls, you know my daughters, they're the they're 14 and 17.
When I was sworn in, they were two and four.
They were they were little bitty.
And and my two-year-old Catherine, uh, Biden leaned over to pick her up.
And she screamed.
She screamed really loudly, and Biden said, It's okay, it's okay.
It's a Democrat, but it's okay.
And that was actually quite funny, and I laughed.
And you know how Time Magazine does little quotes of like the quotes of the week?
Yeah.
That next week, the quote of the week was it's okay, it's okay.
It's a Democrat, but it's okay, Vice President Joe Biden to Catherine Cruz, age two.
And and I've said, you know, when Catherine is married, hopefully a long, long time from now, I intend to read that quote at her wedding and say, even at age two, Catherine knew if a Democrat tries to pick you up, scream loudly.
I like that one.
So where do we go from and and by the way, when I say I didn't speak with him for four years, that was true of virtually every Republican senator.
So we would say that many Democrat centers are talking to him.
I mean, they're little more.
The Democrats talked to him.
Early on because they were insulating him from what the book's saying from like everyone.
So they they talked to him a little more.
When when the Senate's in session, Republican senators have lunch together every Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday.
So we talk at lunch.
It's a they're working lunches, and they're very productive.
We would sit in lunch and talk about how weird it was that none of us had spoken to Biden, had been to the White House to see him, and we all knew him.
They were clearly hiding him.
I actually remember one of my colleagues, John Kennedy, a good friend, Senator from Louisiana, he was one of the few who had seen Biden one time.
And he actually told us all the story.
We're sitting at the the table and he said, Look, he had passed a bill, he said it was a fairly minor bill, but it was a bipartisan bill that had passed.
And and Biden did a bill signing.
And so they brought him over.
Traditionally go to the White House, yeah.
Yeah, they brought him over because they wanted to say say, look how bipartisan were.
So Kennedy was in the Oval and Biden was there, and and Kennedy started striking up a conversation with Biden, and then John knew him like we all did.
And Biden asked, uh, so John, you ever seen the cabinet room?
And John Kennedy being John Kennedy, he said, I lied and said no.
And he said, Come on, let's go.
Yeah.
You knew where that was going.
You say no to that question.
Yeah.
And so he takes him in there and he said, Biden begins telling stories from like 40 or 50 years ago.
And and Kennedy said the White House staff comes in freaking out, Mr. President, you gotta go, you gotta go.
And Biden yells at him, Shut up, I'm telling stories.
And he said he went on for like 30, 40 minutes.
And it was like listening to your grandfather who's tell the same stories over and over again.
Same stories like fifty years ago they can remember, but but don't ask them what's happening today.
And and and that was and he was literally at m at my lunch table, I remember he was the only one of us who had seen Biden since he's been president, and and and that was his one experience with him.
Will there be anything now that the means accept this as fact, the reporting on it as fact?
Cabinet members were worried about his capacity in a crisis.
That's what they've said.
Is there going to be any oversight slash investigation?
Should there be from Congress?
And I know that's a weird question because there's some people like, look, we won, let's move on.
But like I do actually, as an American citizen, want to know who was running the United States of America that was elected by no one.
I want to know who was calling the shots.
It was elected by no one, because whether I win or lose an election, my vote should not be canceled out by by some sort of dictator or tyrant within an administration that no one knows who's running a government.
And by the way, there's a related question to that, Ben, which is we've seen the stories that apparently a substantial number of official things that Biden signed were signed by the autopen.
So was he even making the decision to sign them, right?
And he didn't even seem to know like some of the pardons, and I actually think you'll have this litigated.
Uh I don't I don't not aware of any court that's ever decided is is a pardon does a pardon have to actually be signed by the president.
So look, every elected official has an auto pen.
I have an auto pen.
And so for things like constituent correspondence, if you write in to your senator, you'll you'll get a response back, and we try to respond substantively, and the auto pen pen will sign it.
And I get millions of those letters, so I couldn't physically sign them all.
All I'm thinking about right now is how where that autopin is and how much fun I could have, but keep going.
But look, it's fine for if something like correspondence.
A birthday wish.
But the question is for something that has legal force of law, and I actually want to know did they use the autopen to sign any legislation?
Because it's not clear to me legislation that the president didn't sign has legal force.
the auto pen is not the commander in chief and the chief executive.
What about judges, for example?
If he did an auto pen, which means I'm truly convinced that he didn't know what was going on He didn't know who was appointing, he probably didn't know who was pardoning.
And if it's happening, then's aware it'll be litigated.
Okay.
And and that will because look, it it's interesting, like a pardon on under the Constitution, all you have to have is a document from the president that said, you know, I I I pardoned Ben Ferguson and and and suddenly actually only if it's a federal offense.
So you can't do that.
Only if it's a federal offense, yeah.
The appears I take.
The abuse I take.
But it literally, there's no pomp and circumstance.
It doesn't have to have gold leaf on the paper.
It doesn't have to be an official, it just a piece of paper with a signature with those words in his signature.
That is legally a pardon.
But if you don't actually have a signature, listen, I've been in the oval dozens of times, probably more when when President Trump is signing things.
Who pulls out he actually so do you have you seen the president signing pen?
Oh, yeah, I've got I've got one of the big Sharpies with Sharpie.
Like most presidents use like a Sharpie to have a signing pen, but but President Trump's it's a marker that's probably what, ten inches long and maybe.
And it's gold, it has like gold, it's signature in the game.
And like an inch in diameter.
Like it's it it is massive.
But he signs one after the other after the other after the other, because that's what gives it legal force of law.
If you have a president that's mentally incompetent and you have staffers running thing, it it makes you wonder Dr. Fauci's pardon.
Is Biden sign it?
I don't know.
Yeah.
Or and if it's the autopen, which I'm sure they can figure that out.
I i i it it will be i it it's an interesting question.
You know, I'll say a few more of these quotes from from the cabinet members.
Um the cabinet members in this book uh described, said, one said, quote, the staff did him wrong.
If you were with them every day and you knew this was going to be a problem, why didn't you go to him and say something?
Another said, quote, access dropped off considerably in 2024, and I didn't interact with him as much.
Uh a third said, quote, yes, the president is making the decisions, but if the inner circle is shaking them, shaping them in such a way, is it really a decision?
And here was another cabinet secretary.
I don't think he has dementia, but the thing is he's an old man.
The president can give you four to six good hours a day when he got tired, sloppy isn't the right word, but his guard was down.
That would be the commander in chief of the United States.
Now that it's over, now that everybody knows the cognitive decline, now that the books are being written, they're telling you they may have only gotten four hours a day out of the president of the United States.
That is maybe one of the most shocking statements I've ever heard about any president.
Yeah, look, it it's he was not mentally capable to do the job.
They knew it and they lied about it.
And by the way, Jake Tapper's whole premise that, gosh, little old me, Jake was deceived.
They just didn't tell me the truth.
I just didn't know.
Well, Jake, if you listened to verdict, we were telling you the facts, and we were telling you the facts early on.
Here, I want you to go back to January of 2024.
I want you to listen to a segment of of Ben and me in the podcast back in January of twenty four talking about Biden's uh deterioration.
Give a listen.
You and I and and kind of anyone with eyes and common sense have been observing for a long time that Joe Biden's cognitive decline is massive.
But it's easy for some observers to dismiss that and say, you know, these these guys are biased, they're partisans, they don't like Biden, so what they're saying's not true.
In this instance, the people speaking are the Biden Department of Justice, and not any Department of Justice.
This is a Department of Justice that has proven itself the most politicized and partisan Department of Justice in history.
And they have argued, so for example, I'm going to read you a paragraph from the report.
In his interview with our office, Mr. Biden's memory was worse.
He did not remember when he was vice president.
Forgetting on the first day of the interview when his term ended, quote, if it was 2013, when did I stop being vice president?
And forgetting on the second day of the interview when his term began, quote, in 2009, am I still vice president?
He did not remember, even within several years when his son Bo died.
And his memory appeared hazy when describing the Afghanistan debate that was once so important to him.
Among other things, he mistakenly said he quote had a real difference of opinion with General Carl Eitkenberry, when in fact Eitkenberry was an ally whom Mr. Biden cited approvingly in his Thanksgiving memo to President Obama.
All of that was authored by the Biden Department of Justice, and when they are describing the sitting president as a well-meaning elderly man with a poor memory, the natural question for anyone to say is holy crap, if he's not competent to stand trial, why is he the commander in chief with the authority to send our sons and daughters into harm's way?
Why does he have access to the nuclear codes?
Understand the description here, they say you couldn't charge him with a crime because he's he's not aware of enough to have the requisite mental intent, and yet Joe Biden tonight, if he so desired, could literally exterminate humanity from the face of the planet.
As commander in chief, if he gave the order, launch the nuclear weapons now, unless the military refuse to obey the commander in chief.
Joe Biden could exterminate every life on this planet, and if he's not mentally competent to stand trial, that is terrifying.
So that was a year and a half ago.
Yeah.
A year and a half ago on this podcast.
And understand the entire basis of Tapper's book is he couldn't possibly know about, known about this mental decline.
The Department of Justice, and this would be the Biden Department of Justice, went into court.
So the Robert Herr report, remember they did not prosecute Biden.
And when was that?
I wonder do you remember the time frame on that?
That was early 24.
Yeah, early covered up.
We covered it a lot.
And that would them interviewing him in 23.
Right.
So in 23, when they were interviewing Joe Biden, they then in 24 told America, he's so bad off, we can't even charge him with anything.
So they concluded if they charged him, he would be found not competent to be convicted.
That is a stunning.
Look, there's a standard.
There are people that are not competent to be tried.
If you have dementia, if you're like mentally ill, that you're not able, the the legal standard is you have to form what's called mensrea, which is intent.
And they said, Well, he's so old and senile, you we can't charge him, so that's why they said, Oh, yeah, he clearly violated the law.
He committed a felony.
Remember, he kept classified materials everywhere, including his garage next to his antique uh car.
Not a joke.
That's real.
And they said he he was guilty of that, but they couldn't charge him because he was incompetent to stand trial.
I want you to listen in in 2023 to me laying out that his mental decline and MSNBC, Morning Joe, making fun of me for it.
This is like one of their big intros, May 4th, 2023.
2011.
When Republicans in the House stood strong on the debt ceiling again because Democrats had had majority of the Congress for two years, had passed trillions in irresponsible spending, And Republicans stood strong and said we will not raise the debt ceiling without serious fiscal reform.
What happened?
Then Vice President Joe Biden came and negotiated a deal, a deal called the Budget Control Act.
Vice President Biden sat down with House Republicans and reached a meaningful compromise.
President Joe Biden needs to do the same thing.
And I'll say, sadly, the reason he hasn't so far, I believe, is because his mental faculties are too diminished right now.
You know, you know.
Oh, hold on, hold on, hold on.
What?
He has such a point.
Yes.
His mental faculties are so diminished.
Yeah.
That he passed more bipartisan signed more bipartisan legislation.
year than any president since LBJ might My God, if he were as cogent as he had been in 2011.
He could have been like he could have gone back to FDR.
What else he did without without apparently realizing what he was doing?
He like uh held NATO together to fight Russian aggression in Ukraine.
Uh and it's just amazing.
And my God, I know he only increased uh 800 mile border in NATO with Russia.
Exactly.
But I guess he, you know, he thought he was I hate it when that happens.
You know, it reminds me of Ronald Reagan when he was speaking at Harvard, a Eureka college grad, and he's sitting there talking to the grads, and he's making fun of his education at the end.
He goes, you know, sometimes I just sit here with a presidential seal in front of him, and I wonder what I could have been with a good education.
Tim Cruz, go back and read Reagan.
Go back and read Reagan, he says, by golly.
I I mean, I love this.
And by the way, we do know who was doing it now.
It was either Aon Auto Penn or a bunch of old staffers.
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