Donald Trump ordered an investigation into Joe Biden’s actions during his presidency, accusing aid of a “conspiracy” to “deceive the public on the mental state of Biden”.
In this last decision to discredit his predecessor, Trump has targeted the use of aid of an autopen – a device that reproduces signatures that the presidents, including Trump, have used for decades – to sign executive actions.
“This conspiracy marks one of the most dangerous and most of American scandals,” Trump said on Wednesday.
Biden criticized Trump’s decision as “ridiculous”, saying that his statements aim to distract the Americans while his administration is working to extend tax alleviation for the rich.
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Trump and his Republican allies have long questioned the mental acuity of Biden and tried to overthrow some of the presidential pardons and federal rules issued at the end of his mandate.
A panel led by the Republicans to the House of Representatives asked for testimonies from some of the closest employees of Biden, including his first chief of staff, on his “mental and physical faculties” while he was directing the country.
In a statement on Wednesday, Trump, 78, said that the American public had “deliberately projected to discover who exercised the executive power” while the signature of Biden was used to approve documents that Trump described as leading to “radical policy changes”.
Biden, now 82 and Fight advanced prostate cancerRipped Trump.
“Let me be clear: I made the decisions during my presidency. I made the decisions concerning the pardons, the decrees, the laws and the proclamations,” he said.
“Any suggestion that I did not do it is ridiculous and false,” said Biden in a statement on Wednesday evening.
A meticulous examination on the mental and physical capacity of Biden has intensified in recent weeks when a new book has accused an inner circle within the old administration of covering his “physical deterioration” During his unhappy re -election campaign last year.
Original Sin, written by Jake Tapper of CNN and Alex Thompson d’Axios, alleged that the state of Biden during the campaign would have been so poor that the aids discussed giving him a wheelchair.
Biden suddenly ended his re -election campaign last July shortly after weeks of pressure after his Disastrous debate performance against Trump.
Some Democrats, including the former president of the American House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi, publicly blamed Biden In order not to have left the race earlier, which would have given his group for more time to on -nursing a popular replacement.
At the beginning of last month, Biden gave his First interview since which left the White House to the BBCMaintain that he “(did not think) that it would have been important” if he had left the race earlier.
Shortly after, he announced that he had been diagnosed with an “aggressive” form of prostate cancer which spread to his bones – which led to more accusations of Trump’s White House than the closest to the former president, including his wife Jill, would have known his condition earlier.