Nikki Haley asks Biden to take a mental competency test

Describing the special counsel report on President Joe Biden’s handling of classified documents “unbelievably disturbing,” Indian American Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley has reiterated her calls to Biden to take a mental competency test.

“It is unbelievably disturbing that they are showing that they see Biden to not have a good memory, that they see him as diminished, that they see that it’s a problem, and they point-blank say that,” she said in the interview on Fox News.

“I mean, this is actually dangerous. … Look, people make fun of the fact that I say we need to have mental competency tests. There’s a reason 70% of Americans don’t wanna see a Biden-Trump rematch,” Haley said, referring to former President Donald Trump, the current Republican frontrunner.

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“The party that gets rid of their 80-year-old candidate is gonna be the party that wins.”

“Joe Biden should take a mental competency test immediately, and it should be shared with the public,” Haley stated earlier after Special Counsel Robert Hur announced he wouldn’t prosecute 81-year-old Biden, despite finding that the president “willfully” retained classified information, posing “serious risks to national security.”

“Joe Biden can’t remember major events in his life, like when he was vice president or when his son died,” Haley emphasized in her statement. “That is sad, but it will be even sadder if we have a person in the White House who is not mentally up to the most important job in the world.

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“People make fun when I say we need mental competency tests for politicians. But this isn’t a joke. It’s a matter of national security. And Americans agree,” she reiterated in a post on X.

As she launched her presidential campaign a year ago, Haley called for mandatory mental competency tests for politicians over 75 years of age.

Such tests would include both Biden and the 77-year-old Trump. And Haley and her campaign in recent weeks have spotlighted a number of verbal gaffes made by the former president.

Hur’s report was loaded with potentially more damaging material, as it noted that Biden couldn’t recall major milestones in his own life.

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“He did not remember when he was vice president, forgetting on the first day of the interview when his term ended (‘if it was 2013 — when did I stop being Vice President?’), and forgetting on the second day of the interview when his term began (‘in 2009, am I still Vice President?’),” the report stated.

“He did not remember, even within several years, when his son Beau died.”

An angry and defiant Biden, taking questions from reporters at the White House, declared that “I did not share classified information” and said “my memory’s fine. …Take a look at what I’ve done since I became president. … How did that happen? I guess I just forgot what was going on,” he said.

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And pointing to the Hur report’s comment that the president had trouble remembering his son Beau’s death, Biden fired back, saying “how in the hell dare he raise that.”

Biden during the press conference did confuse the leaders of Mexico and Egypt. Asked about the humanitarian situation in Gaza, Biden mistakenly referred to Egyptian leader Abdel Fattah al-Sisi as the “president of Mexico.”

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