Jasmyn Jordan 18 Jun 2025
Senate Republicans on Wednesday opened a high-profile Judiciary Committee hearing by playing two videos aimed at exposing what they called a coordinated effort to mislead the public about President Biden’s mental fitness.
The first, introduced by Senator Eric Schmitt, was what he called on X “the best witness they’ve had in YEARS — receipts of the lies they peddled.” The second, shared by Senator Josh Hawley, showed what he described as proof that “Dems don’t want to answer for the four years of lies and hypocrisy they fed the American people about how Biden was ‘fit for office.’” Republicans said the footage supports their claim that the White House and its allies deceived Americans about the president’s cognitive decline.
Senator Eric Schmitt of Missouri, who chaired the hearing, criticized his Democrat colleagues for not attending.
“They have chosen to ignore the hearing as they chose to ignore President Biden’s mental decline,” Schmitt said. “But we do have a short video of some previous statements from Biden administration officials and Democratic Party officials telling us not to believe our lying eyes.”
The phrase quickly became a central theme of the hearing, echoed by multiple Republicans who criticized the media’s coverage of Biden’s apparent struggles compared to the treatment of former President Donald Trump.
Schmitt pressed former White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer on the double standard:
The media, so desperate to make sure President Trump never got back into office…this narrative that Joe Biden was fine… they couldn’t deny it anymore based on the debate. Could you just kind of compare that to your experience when you were, you know, press secretary for President Trump, to sort of the inquiries that were made daily about his mental acuity versus the inability to do that during the four years under Joe Biden?
“Senator, in many cases, there was no inquiry. I think the difference was they would seize on the simplest thing with President Trump, whereas in President Biden’s case, there was multiple issues of physical, mental, confusion, him going in the wrong direction, him falling down, him misunderstanding an event, or not being able to finish the sentence,” Spicer responded. “That was never the case with President Trump. They were almost manufacturing instances in his case, without actually trying to get to the bottom of a story or inquire within the press office to get our response. They would go with the story. Then we would push back. With Biden, my understanding from the conversations that I would have with the media is they would never ask. They just literally were basically afraid to go there.”
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