Donald Trump targets Biden's mental health: GOP demands probe into autopen use, Presidential fitness under microscope
Now, the United States House of Representatives is launching its own investigation into Joe Biden, specifically taking aim at allegations surrounding the former president's cognitive decline and the Democratic party's coverup of it.
Additional investigations are underway in the United States Senate, with the White House also conducting its own investigation into Joe Biden's alleged autopen use, which is a talking point Trump has leaned into quite often recently.
This political strategy has drawn considerable scrutiny, giving that the mid-term elections are due next year.
Donald Trump continues to bring up Biden health issues
Joe Biden was infamously in the headlines for his reported cognitive decline. While Biden's political opponents had been accusing him of being out of it as far back as his 2020 election campaign, matters really came to a head during the 2024 election cycle's first Presidential debate.
Joe Biden's performance during the June 27 debate hosted by CNN was widely panned by political pundits as being among the worst debate performances in modern American history.
This resulted in accusations of the Democratic party covering up Biden's cognitive decline to skyrocket.
As evidenced by the Republican party's current investigations, this is not a scandal Donald Trump or his operatives are willing to let die anytime soon.
Trump urges reporters to cover Biden's autopen and not Epstein pic.twitter.com/g2rb2he0f9
The House Oversight Committee investigation into Biden's alleged use of an autopen is being led by Representative Derrick Van Orden, who claimed that using an autopen was a violation of the United States Constitution's Article II, which vests executive authority solely with the President. As Van Ord said,
'It doesn't say chief of staff. It doesn't say an auto pen.'
CNN's debate moderator has also made accusations of a coverup
Donald Trump and the GOP aren't the only ones who've raised questions about Joe Biden's cognitive decline.
On May 2025, Jake Tapper, who was one of the debate moderators, published a book detailing Biden's decline called Original Sin: President Biden's Decline, Its Cover-up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again.
Tapper did, however, court controversy for promoting his book instead of focusing on Donald Trump's own scandals.
Still can't get over that Jake Tapper, the top guy at CNN, wrote a book about how everyone knew about Biden's mental decline but covered it up. He's the guiltiest of them all. In a sane world, he'd be fired for journalistic malpractice. But still top guy at CNN
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