A Republican congresswoman has demanded Attorney General Merrick Garland use the 25th Amendment to remove Joe Biden from office after Justice Department special counsel Robert Hur exonerated the president over his handling of classified documents but claimed he has a bad memory.
In a letter sent to Garland on Thursday, GOP representative Claudia Tenney said she had “grave concerns” about the details of Hur’s report, writing that the special counsel’s decision not to prosecute the president was “alarming.” In the report, Hur explained that “no criminal charges are warranted” because “the evidence does not establish Mr. Biden’s guilt beyond a reasonable doubt,” i.e., something the law requires. Hur also wrote that “Mr. Biden would likely present himself to a jury, as he did during our interview of him, as a sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory,” a claim that Democrats have assailed as politically motivated. (Speaking to reporters on Friday, Senator John Fetterman said the report was “a smear” job full of “cheap shots and just taking things out of context, or even just inventing,” adding “clearly there was an agenda there.”)
Tenney wrote in her letter to Garland: “We don’t prosecute or decline to prosecute people based on their personalities, or on the public’s anticipated perception of them. If Special Counsel finds that the evidence forms a reasonable basis to bring charges, he must do so.… President Biden needs to be charged, or he needs to be removed. There is no middle ground.” She insisted that it was “incumbent” upon the attorney general to begin the process of removing Biden from office via the 25th Amendment, a section of which gives the vice president and a majority of Cabinet members—or a majority of a body designated by Congress—the power to do so in certain situations.
It’s worth noting that Tenney does not appear to have called for invoking the 25th Amendment back in 2021 after the president of the United States incited a violent riot that left multiple people dead. Which some might argue was a bigger deal!
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