As President Donald Trump weighed whether to get involved with Israel’s war against Iran, Republican senators spent Wednesday morning airing their grievances about the last president’s performance.
A Senate Judiciary Committee hearing about former President Joe Biden’s mental acuity — officially intended to explore constitutional questions surrounding an aging president in decline — devolved into bitter recriminations and arguments among senators about what qualifies as a constitutional crisis.
“Who was running the country?” asked Sen. Eric Schmitt, a Missouri Republican, about Biden’s time in office. Schmitt kicked off the proceedings by alleging that Democrats’ handling of Biden’s aging and mental state in office was “the great deception.”