Joe Holleman | Post-Dispatch
Political correspondent/columnist
U.S. Sen. Eric Schmitt listens as members of the press ask him questions following the Missouri GOP Get Out to Vote tour stop on Monday, Nov. 4, 2024, at Spirit of 51ºÚÁÏ Airport in Chesterfield.
One hot topic among conservative political pundits — the state of former President Joe Biden’s health during the last part of his one term — will be the new topic for the U.S. Senate.
Eric Schmitt, Missouri’s junior GOP senator, and U.S. Sen. John Cornyn, a Texas Republican, announced Thursday they will co-chair a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing to investigate who was running the country during Biden’s apparent cognitive decline.
Schmitt said that during Biden’s term, “the American people ... saw someone who was clearly not capable of making major decisions for the nation. Yet those closest to the President and the mainstream media did everything they could to hide this truth.â€
The hearing is set to begin on July 18 and will be the first full congressional committee hearing on the subject.
Questions surrounding Biden’s health, and mainstream media’s reluctance to report on it, is undergoing new scrutiny in part due to a new book by CNN anchor Jake Tapper.
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Once a staunch defender of Biden against those who questioned the former president’s mental health, Tapper and co-author Alex Thompson now claim that those closest to Biden orchestrated a cover-up of his decline.
Republican Attorney General Eric Schmitt won his bid for the U.S. Senate on Tuesday, Nov. 8, 2022, defeating Democrat Trudy Busch Valentine.
