By Steve Neavling
Former President Donald Trump has directed Attorney General Pam Bondi to investigate whether the Biden administration tried to conceal President Joe Biden’s mental state while he was in office.
The order, announced by the White House this week, calls on the Justice Department and White House counsel to examine Biden’s role in issuing executive orders, proclamations, and pardons during the final years of his presidency, ABC News reports.
“This is nothing more than a distraction by Donald Trump and Congressional Republicans,” Biden said in a statement. He called the investigation politically motivated and defended his decision-making, adding, “Any suggestion that I didn’t [make the decisions] is ridiculous and false.”
The directive marks a significant escalation, moving beyond earlier reviews of Biden’s last-minute pardons and into broader questions about his capacity in office.
Biden accused Trump of deflecting attention from policy proposals.
“This is nothing more than a distraction by Donald Trump and Congressional Republicans who are working to push disastrous legislation that would cut essential programs like Medicaid and raise costs on American families, all to pay for tax breaks for the ultra-wealthy and big corporations,” Biden said in a statement sent to ABC News.
