Turley: The critics overlook what Trump’s investigation into the cover-up of Biden’s mental deterioration
By Jonathan Turley | Commentary, U.S. News & World Report
We need accountability and greater transparency on matters of presidential health and competence.
“Jackie, are you here? Where’s Jackie?”
When then-President Joe Biden asked in September 2022 if U.S. Rep. Jackie Walorski, an Indiana Republican who had died weeks earlier in a car accident, was in a meeting, observers were shocked. Biden had not only issued a statement of condolence, he had lowered the flags at the White House in her honor.
As Washington Post media critic Erik Wemple noted last week, that moment should have been a wake-up call. In Washington parlance, it left no room for “plausible deniability” about whether Biden was still fit to hold the office of president. And it wasn’t jus...