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.
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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 going to hear the proof momentarily.
Yeah, and we're going to get to that because I want everyone, and this is why we do this show.
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So let's go back to this lie that I think the part that blows my mind the most is the fact that Taft River is actually probably going to get a bestseller out of this.
Everyone, 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 look, 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 going to 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 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 Tapper said yes.
And I got to say, so there are lots of crisis going to waste, right?
Look, and particularly a chance to make some good money.
I mean, hey, what's journalism all about 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, 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 how bad it was.
And yet, every time anyone tried to bring up those facts, Jake Tapper 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 Tapper 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 ends the interview.
Like, you can't even say this on my show.
So 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.
That's what I'm referring to.
It makes me uncomfortable.
You have no absolutely short.
And try and figure out an answer to that.
President Biden embraces his stutter talking about it while Trump mocks it, exaggerates it, belittles it.
He's sharp physically.
I mean, mentally.
Yeah, I think the question is physically, right?
Right.
More so?
Right.
Right.
And the guy who's his chief 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 you got hugs and handshakes behind closed doors today, and maybe even publicly, some of them because they like you personally.
But I've heard a lot of really nasty stuff about you from your Democratic colleagues.
I mean, just like, what is he thinking?
Exercise and narcissism.
I mean, false claims to the Wall Street Journal about President Biden's mental fitness and acuity.
He's 81, and his memory, you know, it doesn't seem great.
It's not horrible, but I don't understand the outrage.
Quote, behind closed doors, Biden shows signs of slipping, unquote.
The Wall Street Journal is 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 seeming a little slower?
No.
The Russians are trying to do, to make us and the public not trust our 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 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 Tapper, 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 at a fundraiser in June of 2024, Joe Biden didn't recognize George Clooney, who he's known for decades.
George Clooney, by the way.
He had to be introduced like Ocean's 11.
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.
And it's one about the fact that they were at this fundraiser, and the president didn't know who George Clooney was.
You have Barack Obama having to walk him offstage.
Like, that was when everyone in his realm that they were even trying to, I think, insulate 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.
You know, the Babylon B had a great headline 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 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 gave his own personal guarantee about how quick Biden was.
And listen this week when finally the media confronts him about his lies.
Listen to what Chuck Schumer says.
You said in June of last year, in my meetings with President Biden, I found the command and impressive and yielded influence to make progress on key priorities.
But in that same month, Biden apparently did not even recognize George was going to get a fundraiser.
Will you beat us right with the American public?
We're just looking forward to it.
I mean, it's the best answer I've ever heard from a politician senator.
We're just looking forward.
Hey, we've got to go.
We're just looking forward, and I'm walking off stage.
Like, we're just looking forward.
So, Governor, tell me about the dead body that we found in your house.
We're just looking forward to it.
We're just looking straight.
Governor, tell me about the cocaine in the White House.
This is just that.
The cocaine in the White House.
We're just looking forward.
We're just moving forward, guys.
Schumer, not the tiniest bit of accountability.
Oh, yeah.
We're moving forward.
We're moving forward affordable.
Forward moving.
The Democrats in 2025.
You know, it reminded me back, if you remember when Mitt Romney ran for president against Barack Obama.
Yes.
And Harry Reid went 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 he 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 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 defamation because he was lying.
And he didn't say it on TV.
Interesting.
And after the election, they asked Harry Reid about, wait, you were lying.
You had no evidence.
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 worked with Biden every day in the White House and so knew to an absolute certainty that Biden was severely mentally declining.
But listen to 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 made that point before.
Just finally, do you think in retrospect, given everything that's happened and 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 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, 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 just be clear.
I've known national security advisors.
That is the biggest load of crap I've ever heard.
I'm just going to 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?
No, I mean, isn't like, I don't know a man who refers to his wife as my spouse.
My spouse, who's running for Congress, my wife, who's running for Congress.
Like that person, the love of my life.
Like the way mother or most human beings would communicate, but not Democrat apparatus.
Here's what me my smoking hot wife who's running for Congress.
You better, by the way.
Do I know you well or do I know you well?
Any chance to praise your wife, not your spouse.
Yes, my smoking hot wife is exactly the way to put it.
I set you up for success there.
I just want to know if there's anything 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 pod.
Actually, look, as you know, she listens to the podcast.
So that'll be, she'll be listening.
See, this is a litmus test.
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 did you say about me?
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 praise.
Pause.
Yeah, I'm just saying.
I'm just saying.
I want to ask you 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 axius reporting is that the cabinet members worried about his capacity specifically in a crisis.
Now, there's been interesting reporting, and I 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 25th.
Not because they were afraid.
I go back to the, 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 this Jake Tapper comedy book includes the revelation that multiple cabinet members were worried that he could not be relied on in a time of crisis because his mental diminution was 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 rare meeting during the time, that cabinet secretary was, quote, shocked by how the president was acting.
He 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 look, I don't know that I'd trust him to operate the remote control on the television set.
By the way, are they going to put this under fiction or non-fiction?
That's what I want to know when you go to the store, right?
If you go look for it.
Well, sadly, I think they'll put it under nonfiction, which they should, because it is true that Joe Biden 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 Tapper has written or said in the last year.
He didn't really write it.
Hold on.
The guy from Axis writing it.
That's actually true.
It was someone else who wrote it, and Tapper put his name in it.
But by accident, 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 cabinet members because this is the big question.
I was doing Fox and I Waters World.
Kelly McEney was filling in former White House Press Secretary, and she was talking about when some of this was starting to break.
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 asking.
I'm going to ask you.
I've been asked that question probably a thousand times.
And I'm going to 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 is the only president in modern times who, at the end of his presidency, stayed in D.C., bought a big house in Calorama 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 staffers.
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 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, 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 spoke with Obama regularly with Trump.
I speak with him often every week, sometimes multiple times a week.
It is part of the job of being a senator 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 four years.
He was a man of the Senate.
When I was first elected to 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, 13 years ago, he did not have cognitive decline.
And in fact, it was funny.
So my girls, you know, my daughters, they're 14 and 17.
When I was sworn in, they were two and four.
They were little bitty.
And my two-year-old, Catherine, 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 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 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.
Were there that many Democrat senators are talking to him?
I mean, they're a 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 talked to him a little more.
When the Senate's in session, Republican senators have lunch together every Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday.
So we talk at lunch.
They're working lunches.
It's very productive.
We would sit at 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 table.
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 Biden did a bill signing.
And so they brought him over.
So he goes to the White House.
Yeah, they brought him over because they wanted to say, look how bipartisan we're.
So Kennedy was in the Oval and Biden was there.
And Kennedy started striking up a conversation with Biden.
And John knew him like we all did.
And Biden asked, 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.
You knew where that was going.
You say no to that question.
And so he takes him in there and he said, Biden begins telling stories from like 40 or 50 years ago.
And Kennedy said, the White House staff comes in freaking out.
Mr. President, you got to go.
You got to 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 tell the same stories over and over again.
Tell the same stories like 50 years ago they can remember, but don't ask them what's happening today.
And that was, and he was literally at my lunch table.
I remember he was the only one of us who had seen Biden since he's been president.
And that was his one experience with him.
Will there be anything now that the media accept this as fact?
They're 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 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 Auto Pen.
So was he even making the decision to sign them?
And he didn't even seem to know, like some of the pardons, and I actually think you'll have this litigated.
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 get a response back that we try to respond substantively and the auto 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 where that auto pen is and how much fun I could have.
But keep going.
But look, it's fine for something like correspondence.
A birthday wish.
But the question is for something that has legal force of law.
And I actually want to know, do they use the auto pen 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.
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 he was appointing.
He probably didn't know who he was pardoning.
And if that's happening, things are where it'll be litigated.
Okay.
And that will.
And why is that so different?
Because, look, it's interesting.
Like a pardon under the Constitution, all you have to have is a document from the president that said, you know, I pardoned Ben Ferguson, and suddenly, actually, only if it's a federal offense.
So he can't.
Only if it's a federal offense, yeah.
The abuse.
The abuse 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's just a piece of paper with those words and his signature.
That is legally a pardon.
But if you don't actually have his signature, listen, I've been in the Oval dozens of times, probably more, when President Trump is signing things and he pulls out.
He actually, so have you seen the president's signing pen?
Oh, yeah, I've got one of the big Sharpies with his massive Sharpie.
Like most presidents use like a Sharpie to have a signing pen, but President Trump's, it's a marker that's probably, what, 10 inches long and maybe it has like gold, his signature in the past.
And like an inch in diameter.
Like it's 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 makes you wonder Dr. Fauci's pardon.
I don't know.
Yeah.
And if it's the auto pen, which I'm sure they can figure that out, it will be, it's an interesting question.
You know, I'll say a few more of these quotes from the cabinet members.
The cabinet members in this book described, said, one said, quote, the staff did him wrong.
If you were with him 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.
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 America.
That is maybe one of the most shocking statements I've ever heard about any president.
Yeah, look, 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 Ben and Me and the podcast back in January of 24 talking about Biden's deterioration.
Give a listen.
You and I, 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 guys are biased.
They're partisans.
They don't like Biden.
So what they're saying is 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 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 refused 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 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?
Do you remember the timeframe on that?
That was early 24.
Yeah, so we covered it a lot.
And that was 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 legal standard is you have to form what's called mensrea, which is intent.
And they said, well, he's so old and senile, 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 car.
Not a joke.
That's real.
And they said he was guilty of that, but they couldn't charge him because he was incompetent to stand trial.
I want you to listen in 2023 to me laying out 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, hold on, hold on, hold on.
He has such a point.
Yes.
His mental faculties are so diminished that he passed more bipartisan, signed more bipartisan legislation.
I didn't even know he was doing it last year than any than any president since LBJ.
My God, if he were as cogent as he had been in 2011, he could have been like, you could have gone back to FDR.
What else he did without apparently realizing what he was doing?
Held NATO together to fight Russian aggression in Ukraine.
And my God, I know he only increased 800-mile border 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.
Ted Cruz, go back and read Reagan.
Eugene Robertson, David Ignatius.
Go back and read Reagan.
He says, by golly.
I mean, I love this.
And by the way, we do know who was doing it now.
It was either Aon Otto Penn or a bunch of old staffers.
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