GOP says Dems admit ‘guilt’ in Biden health cover-up by boycotting Senate hearing on ‘constitutional scandal’

Republican lawmakers connected the Senate Judiciary Committee admonished Democratic colleagues for boycotting and walking retired of a Wednesday greeting proceeding examining erstwhile President Joe Biden's wellness diminution portion helium was successful the Oval Office.

"I volition enactment that fewer of my Democratic colleagues are present today," Republican Texas Sen. John Cornyn said Wednesday. "Thank you to Sen. Welch from Vermont for being here, leaving america with nary different enactment than to instrumentality the boycott of this proceeding arsenic an admittance of guilt for their relation successful this crisis.

"We indispensable not crook distant from the hunt for answers, and it is not an overstatement to accidental that the aboriginal of our state could 1 time hinge connected however we take to enactment oregon not enactment connected this precise issue," Cornyn continued.

The Senate committee held a proceeding Wednesday greeting dubbed, "Unfit to Serve: How the Biden Cover-up Endangered America and Undermined the Constitution." 

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Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, railed against Democrats for skipping a Senate proceeding connected erstwhile President Biden's wellness decline. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

Vermont Democrat Sen. Peter Welch and Illinois Democrat Sen. Dick Durbin did be the commencement of the hearing, with Durbin abruptly walking retired aft describing the proceeding arsenic a distraction and accusing Republican colleagues of being "asleep astatine the wheel" with different ineligible issues wrong the Trump medication owed to their absorption connected Biden. 

"In the past week alone, respective events person demanded this committee's contiguous attention," Durbin said Wednesday. "The horrific assassination successful Minnesota, the attraction of our workfellow Sen. Padilla by national agents successful Los Angeles, and President Trump's unprecedented deployment of the U.S. subject successful Los Angeles.

"We should perceive without hold from Attorney General Bondi and FBI Director Patel astir what they are doing to code the unacceptable governmental unit successful our country, including threats to Article III judges and justices, arsenic good arsenic members of Congress," Durbin said. "And we request to perceive from the Homeland Security Secretary Noem astir the attraction of our colleague, Sen. Padilla, and this administration's wide deportation run against immigrants." 

Welch besides near the proceeding aft declaring it would not payment his constituents. 

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There are 10 Democrats connected the Senate Judiciary Committee, including lawmakers specified arsenic Sens. Klobuchar of Minnesota, Cory Booker of New Jersey, and Adam Schiff of California. The property caput for Senate Judiciary Committee Democrats directed Fox Digital to Durbin's archetypal information successful the proceeding and his remarks erstwhile asked astir GOP lawmakers arguing Democrats' boycott of the proceeding was an admittance of guilt. 

Republican Texas Sen. Ted Cruz seethed that Democrats and the media "lied" and covered up Biden's wellness decline, portion slamming Democrats for their deficiency of participation. 

Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, slammed Democrats for boycotting a Senate Judiciary proceeding connected President Biden's wellness decline.  (Ben Curtis/The Associated Press)

"Not a azygous Democrat is present contiguous due to the fact that not a azygous 1 of them gives a d--- astir the information that they lied to the American radical for 4 years," Cruz said astatine the hearing. "They knew. Every 1 of them knew that Joe Biden was mentally not competent to bash the job. The White House property secretary, she knew, erstwhile she stood successful beforehand of the American radical and lied implicit and implicit and implicit again. And they're not present due to the fact that they can't support themselves. It wasn't a surprise, for 4 years, the White House hid President Biden from Republican senators. Would not fto him conscionable with us." 

Other Republicans railed against Democratic counterparts for skipping the hearing, specified arsenic Missouri Republican Sen. Eric Schmidt. 

"Today, arsenic we question to reply this question, it is profoundly disappointing, but not surprising, that astir Democrats connected this committee person chosen each but boycott the proceeding and failed to telephone a azygous witness," Schmidt said astatine the hearing. "They person chosen to disregard this contented similar they ignored President Biden's decline. Their lack speaks volumes, an implicit admittance that the information is excessively inconvenient to face. By refusing to prosecute successful this captious examination, they abdicate their work to the American people. This de facto boycott is not conscionable a refusal to participate. It's a refusal to service the American radical who merit answers astir who was genuinely starring their government.

"The rubric of the hearing, ‘Unfit to Serve,’ captures a sobering and undeniable truth," Schmidt added. "President Biden was mentally unfit to transportation retired the responsibilities of the astir almighty bureau successful the world. Given his intelligence incapacity, the American radical merit to cognize who was moving the state the past 4 years."

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The proceeding included grounds from 3 experts, including University of Virginia instrumentality prof John Harrison, blimpish deliberation vessel Heritage Foundation chap Theodore Wold, and a erstwhile White House property caput from the archetypal Trump administration, Sean Spicer. 

Concern implicit Biden's intelligence acuity deed a fever transportation successful 2024 arsenic the predetermination rhythm heated up, erstwhile the then-president delivered a dismal statement show against now-President Donald Trump successful June. The statement opened the floodgates of criticism, including accepted Democrat allies calling for Biden to driblet retired of the statesmanlike contention aft conservatives had already agelong argued that Biden's intelligence acuity was slipping and helium was unfit to service arsenic commandant successful chief.

Former President Biden's statement against Donald Trump successful 2024 opened the floodgates to criticisms implicit his intelligence acuity.  (Getty Images )

Concerns implicit his wellness person continued aft his statesmanlike tenure ended, including with the revelation that the Biden admin often utilized an autopen to motion authoritative statesmanlike documents, the merchandise of Biden's interrogation with erstwhile Special Counsel Robert Hur, and Biden's daze announcement successful May that helium had precocious prostate cancer.

The blimpish Heritage Foundation's Oversight Project archetypal investigated the Biden administration's usage of an autopen earlier successful 2025 and recovered that the aforesaid signature was connected a bevvy of enforcement orders and different authoritative documents, portion Biden’s signature connected the papers announcing his departure from the 2024 contention varied from the evident machine-produced signature.

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Heritage chap Wold testified earlier the committee and described the alleged cover-up of Biden's declining wellness a "constitutional crisis."

An illustration of an autopen successful operation. 

"I volition accidental the 25th Amendment. It's a modern contrivance, but it inactive is accordant with the American Constitution, which assumes that officers of the United States volition enactment virtuously and morally," Wold said. "And the thought that members of the Cabinet would spell to the magnitude of avoiding the Oval Office truthful arsenic to abdicate their work to verify the appropriateness of the president's acuity oregon the quality to authenticate actions taken by the president. If that's not a law scandal, I honestly, I don't cognize what would what would represent such.

"There could beryllium the imaginable for crimes," helium said. "But moreover, the 25th Amendment tin lone relation successful its sole mechanisms if radical are really consenting to telephone a spade a spade." 

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Concerns implicit President Biden's wellness deed a fever transportation successful 2024 amid the run rhythm aft conservatives had agelong sounded the alarm connected the president's health.  (Evan Vucci/The Associated Press)

The U.S. Constitution’s 25th Amendment states that "whenever the Vice President and a bulk of either the main officers of the enforcement departments oregon of specified different assemblage arsenic Congress whitethorn by instrumentality provide, transmit to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is incapable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall instantly presume the powers and duties of the bureau arsenic Acting President." 

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Biden's Cabinet, different medication officials and Democrat lawmakers fiercely defended his wellness amid outcry from Republicans and others that Biden's wellness had cratered and that helium was apt unfit to service arsenic president.