{"id":665459,"date":"2021-08-20T11:50:27","date_gmt":"2021-08-20T15:50:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=665459"},"modified":"2021-08-20T11:50:31","modified_gmt":"2021-08-20T15:50:31","slug":"republicans-question-bidens-mental-state-call-on-him-to-resign-over-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/republicans-question-bidens-mental-state-call-on-him-to-resign-over-afghanistan\/","title":{"rendered":"Republicans Question Biden\u2019s Mental State, Call On Him To Resign Over Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Frepublicans-question-bidens-mental-state-call-on-him-to-resign-over-afghanistan%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=665459&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/joe-biden-scaled-e1629472153718.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Republicans in Congress are questioning President Joe Biden\u2019s mental state, and in some cases are calling for him to resign over the United States\u2019 chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>At least seven Republicans have argued that Biden should resign and have called into question his fitness for the presidency amid his repeated trips to Camp David and his home in Wilmington, Delaware. Biden has addressed the crisis in Afghanistan only twice since Kabul fell to the Taliban, reading a prepared <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/08\/16\/joe-biden-address-nation-afghanistan-taliban\/\">statement<\/a> on Monday, Aug. 16, and sitting for an exclusive <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/08\/19\/biden-military-advisers-leaders-intel-withdrawal-afghanistan-abc-stephanopoulos\/\">interview<\/a> with ABC\u2019s George Stephanopoulos on Wednesday, Aug. 18.<\/p>\n<p>During those appearances, Biden blamed Afghan and American military leaders, American intelligence officials, and former President Donald Trump for the chaotic withdrawal, <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/08\/18\/joe-biden-defiant-afghanistan-withdrawal-process-chaos\/\">asserting<\/a> that there was no \u201cway to have gotten out without chaos ensuing.\u201d Less than two months earlier, Biden <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/07\/08\/joe-biden-afghanistan-remarks-stay-out-region-trusts-afghan-military\/\">claimed<\/a> that the Ashraf Ghani-led Afghan government \u201cclearly ha[d] the capacity to sustain the government in place.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Amid Biden\u2019s low profile, Indiana Rep. Jim Banks, who deployed to Afghanistan in 2014, asserted that \u201cour troops \u2026 see this Commander in Chief is unfit to lead.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" readability=\"9.1818181818182\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Afghanistan veterans have wide array of sentiments about our continued presence there but make no mistake about it \u2026 Biden\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Afghanistan?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Afghanistan<\/a> blunder is demoralizing to veterans who served there who\u2019ve seen the cost and to our troops who see this Commander in Chief is unfit to lead.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jim Banks (@RepJimBanks) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RepJimBanks\/status\/1426857973570228225?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 15, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cBiden and Harris \u2026 are completely unfit to lead,\u201d Arizona Rep. Andy Biggs tweeted.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" readability=\"9.2021276595745\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">These past few days have proven what we\u2019ve already known about Biden and Harris.<\/p>\n<p>They are completely unfit to lead.<\/p>\n<p>They must resign!<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Rep Andy Biggs (@RepAndyBiggsAZ) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RepAndyBiggsAZ\/status\/1427674016391729154?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 17, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>New York Rep. Elise Stefanik described Biden\u2019s Monday address as \u201cweak,\u201d adding that his \u201clack of a plan, dereliction of duty, and deafening silence erodes our credibility to defend U.S. interests in the future.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" readability=\"9.174672489083\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">President Joe Biden\u2019s weak address to the American people shows he is unfit to serve as President of the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Full statement \ud83d\udc47 \ud83d\udc47 \ud83d\udc47<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/62QwNNTmHW\">https:\/\/t.co\/62QwNNTmHW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Rep. Elise Stefanik (@RepStefanik) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RepStefanik\/status\/1427367699089350663?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 16, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Florida Sen. Rick Scott <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/republican-senators-biden-fitness-afghanistan-debacle\">told<\/a> Fox News on Thursday that Americans \u201cmust ask the serious question of whether Joe Biden is fit to lead our nation as commander in chief \u2026 as he hides from the American public and the press.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Wisconsin Sen. Ron Johnson added that the \u201cunmitigated disaster we\u2019ve seen in Afghanistan\u201d confirms Biden\u2019s lack of fitness.<\/p>\n<p>Biden became the oldest person to win a presidential election in 2020 and became the oldest president on the day he was sworn into office. Questions about his mental fitness have <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2020\/03\/05\/joe-biden-mental-fitness-2020-presidential-election\/\">followed<\/a> Biden since the beginning of his presidential campaign, from Democratic rivals as well as Republicans. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2019\/09\/17\/trump-campaign-joe-biden-mental-fitness-video\/\">(RELATED: Trump Campaign Releases Video Hammering Biden\u2019s Mental Fitness)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Fourteen House Republicans <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/06\/17\/white-house-doctor-republican-lawmakers-request-biden-cognitive-test\/\">requested<\/a> in June that Biden take and publicize the results of a cognitive fitness test. The letter was spearheaded by Texas Rep. and former White House physician Ronny Jackson.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republicans in Congress are questioning President Joe Biden\u2019s mental state, and in some cases are calling for him to resign over the United States\u2019 chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan.At least seven &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-665459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=665459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665459\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=665459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=665459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=665459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}