Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-MO) speculated that former first lady Jill Biden was actually leading the country while her husband was “incapacitated,” comparing the alleged situation to what happened during President Woodrow Wilson’s administration.
Congressional Republicans are investigating the cover-up of former President Joe Biden’s cognitive decline, of which Schmitt said the voting public “deserve to know” who was leading the country during the Biden presidency. He explained that the president is “the one person that’s actually elected by the whole country,” but that Biden’s inability to serve the public was “on full display,” with whistleblowers even saying the former president could not find the Oval Office’s bathroom.
“So this was, I think, in my view, a scandal bigger than Watergate,” Schmitt explained on Fox News’s The Ingraham Angle. “And so, in addition to just looking backwards and trying to figure out who was actually running the country, these left-wing radicals who opened up our borders and caused inflation and had a wandering foreign policy, what do we do about it moving forward? How can you have a mechanism, actually, that would address this? And I’ve said often that Joe Biden is the worst president this side of Woodrow Wilson. Ironically, you had the same problem 100 years ago with Woodrow Wilson, where he was incapacitated and his wife was running the government. That’s probably what was happening here, too.”
Schmitt’s comparison was in reference to the stroke that Wilson suffered in October 1919. The then-first lady Edith Wilson downplayed the extent of her husband’s illness as he recovered.
Previewing the next steps in the Biden investigation, Schmitt said that Senate Republicans will seek documents from an archivist, who is supposed to keep “a paper trail” of the president’s use of the autopen. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) has speculated that a “real argument” could be made that some laws signed with Biden’s autopen may not be laws if the former president was unaware of his signature.
The Missouri senator also criticized the press’s lack of coverage on Biden’s cognitive decline, claiming they prioritized preventing President Donald Trump from ever returning to the White House. However, he argued the public saw Biden’s struggles for themselves through video footage and urged the investigation into the cover-up to continue.
“We gotta make sure people are held accountable and this never happens again,” Schmitt said.
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Like Schmitt, Rep. Ronnie Jackson (R-TX) has compared Biden’s cognitive decline to Wilson’s stroke, saying that Edith Wilson kept his condition “hidden” from the press. He also speculated that Biden’s doctor, Kevin O’Connor, likely played a role in the former president’s cover-up since he was “part of the Biden family.”
Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) has demanded that Biden release internal records showing whether he authorized the use of his autopen to sign pardons and clemency grants. Theodore Wold testified in a Senate hearing on Wednesday that there “should be a record of what documents are presented to the president,” including when he consented to sign them.