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Rep. Jasmine Crockett, D-Texas, defended erstwhile President Joe Biden's intelligence acuity connected Katie Couric's "Next Question" podcast connected Thursday amid a House Oversight Committee probe into the alleged cover-up of the erstwhile president's intelligence decline.
Crockett claimed that she "never saw anything" from Biden that would person made her wonderment astir his intelligence sharpness, and argued that his intelligence acuity was "supreme" to President Donald Trump's.
The House Oversight Committee, led by Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., is starring an investigation into an alleged cover-up of Biden’s intelligence decline.
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The investigation, specifically, is into whether those successful Biden’s interior ellipse colluded to fell the erstwhile president’s declining intelligence acuity and utilized methods to circumvent the erstwhile president erstwhile it came to the issuance of important orders, specified arsenic done the usage of an autopen instrumentality utilized to mimic the president’s signature.
Crockett told Couric that she "never saw anything" that made her question Biden's intelligence acuity portion helium was successful office.
The Texas congresswoman, wide seen arsenic a rising prima successful the Democratic Party, told Couric that adjacent arsenic reports proceed to travel retired successful the property detailing the former president's intelligence decline, she doesn't person a azygous regret astir lasting with Biden.
"The mean idiosyncratic has not been fixed the level of entree that the mean subordinate of Congress has to the president," she told Couric. "I ne'er saw thing successful Joe Biden that made maine wonderment whatsoever, and it's not that I was with Joe Biden each azygous day, that's for sure. But arsenic I talked astir my grandparents — the mode that I would picture Joe is like, I mean, he's a granddaddy, right?"
She went connected to comparison Biden to her grandmother, describing however adjacent though she began to dilatory down arsenic she got older, "mentally she was inactive there."
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There is an ongoing probe into whether those wrong Biden’s inner-circle knowingly colluded to fell the erstwhile president’s declining intelligence acuity. (Celal Gunes/Anadolu via Getty Images)
"Her cognition astir definite things — similar whether oregon not she was looking to beryllium arsenic polished, oregon cared to beryllium polished, oregon adjacent if she moved arsenic accelerated — it conscionable wasn't there. We each dilatory down. But I volition archer you that I volition instrumentality a breached — oregon nevertheless they privation to picture Joe Biden — implicit Donald Trump immoderate fixed day, because, fig one, I cognize Joe Biden's heart," Crockett said.
She continued, arguing that Biden's authorities wasn't astir "him and his affluent friends," but alternatively focused connected "the bully of the American people."
"Even if you're saying that determination was a mentally deficient Joe Biden, I cognize that helium perfectly had a intelligence acuity that is ultimate erstwhile it comes to comparing him to Donald Trump, due to the fact that astatine slightest helium kept bully radical astir him," Crockett said. "He kept radical that would support america harmless successful this country."
She contended that adjacent idiosyncratic "with his level of intelligence acuity" was capable to recognize who the country's allies were and didn't get the U.S. into a planetary commercialized war.
U.S. Rep. Jasmine Crockett, D-Texas, speaks connected signifier during Day 3 of Revolt World 2024 astatine Pangaea Studios connected September 22, 2024, successful Atlanta, Georgia. ((Photo by Julia Beverly/Getty Images))
"Even if we privation to accidental — which I garbage to judge — that Joe Biden was mentally deficient, fto maine archer you something. His intelligence deficiency is inactive a 1000 times amended than what we presently have," she argued. "I conscionable privation that, ultimately, this state would justice each of our leaders with the aforesaid measuring stick."
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Fox News' Brooke Singman contributed to this report.
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