Efe Washington
Washington
Updated Friday, February 9, 2024-18:32
USA Biden's alleged loss of mental faculties causes a political storm in the US
Several Republican lawmakers are urging members of US President
Joe Biden
's cabinet to invoke an amendment to the Constitution to
disqualify him from office
, after a prosecutor's report called into question the president's poor memory.
"Merrick Garland (
the attorney general
) has
the duty to invoke the 25th amendment
before his cabinet colleagues.
Or prosecute Biden
. If he is not going to prosecute him, then he should invoke the 25th now," the X social network said. Senator
Josh Hawley
.
The 25th Amendment to the United States Constitution provides that members of the cabinet can
remove the president from his duties
if they
consider him incapable
of carrying out the powers and duties of the office.
If that were to happen, the current Vice President,
Kamala Harris
, would be the one who
would assume the Presidency
until the next November elections.
Republican Rep.
Claudia Tenney,
for her part, also sent a letter Thursday to Garland requesting that he invoke the 25th Amendment in the Cabinet.
Republican lawmakers made these requests after special prosecutor Robert Hur presented his report on Biden's handling of classified documents this Thursday.
Hur concluded that
Biden intentionally withheld classified documents
from his time as vice president, but decided
not to press charges
against him.
What caught the most attention about the report, however, was that Hur claimed that Biden showed
a "significantly limited memory"
during the interrogations carried out in 2023.
The special counsel revealed that Biden
did not remember the dates on which he held the Vice Presidency
and that he had difficulty
remembering the date of his son Beau's death in 2015
.
In an appearance Thursday night at the White House, Biden
defended that his memory is in good condition
, but at one point
he referred to the president of Egypt
, Abdel Fattah al Sisi,
as the "president of Mexico
. "
The lapses of Biden, who at 81 is the oldest president to have ever occupied the White House, are increasingly frequent, something that could be a problem in the middle of the electoral campaign for his re-election.