Democratic Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin spent a minute of a Wednesday hearing airing a montage of President Donald Trump to paint him as mentally unfit.
The Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, titled, “Unfit to Serve: How the Biden Cover-Up Endangered America and Undermined the Constitution,” revolves around the alleged cover-up of former President Joe Biden’s declining health while in office. But rather than engage on the issue, Durbin decided to play a video of out-of-context Trump statements to insinuate the current president is also in a state of cognitive decline.
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“I think we should consider what happened in Alberta, Canada, just this week where President Trump was at a press conference with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer and said the following: ‘You all know the great PM of the UK. And we just signed a document.’ President Trump continued: ‘We just signed it, so we have our trade agreement with the EU.’ Britain has not been a party to the EU for five years, but President Trump made a statement, which clearly was wrong,” Durbin said.
“Now I’d like to see a short video that includes some other examples of cognitive ability,” he continued.
The video included prominent remarks by Trump on topics such as the Constitution, windmills, Haitian migrants, magnets and COVID-19.
“Do any of these statements raise a question of cognitive ability? You be the judge,” the senator said after playing the clip.
This was not the first time Durbin derailed a hearing from its intended purpose.
In March, he used a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on on the “censorship industrial complex” as a platform to launch into a three- minute tirade about his fear that the history of the Jan. 6, 2021 Capitol riot was being rewritten.
Special counsel Robert Hur issued a February 2024 report finding that Biden mishandled classified documents, but he chose not to charge him due to the potential that a jury may perceive him as “a sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory.” A transcript of the interview showed memory lapses, like Biden seeming to forget when he began and ended his vice presidency, and the date of his late son Beau’s death.
Yet corporate media outlets defended Biden’s lucidity and attacked Hur as partisan and deceptive following the release of the transcript.
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