Rick Scott calls for 25th Amendment after Biden special counsel report, lapse-filled response

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Florida Republican Sen. Rick Scott called on the U.S. Cabinet to invoke the 25th Amendment against President Joe Biden over a new special counsel report throwing shade on his metal competency and fitness, specifically his “poor memory.”

“It’s time. The cabinet should invoke the 25th Amendment,” Scott said on social media, as Biden delivered a gaffe-filled speech Thursday night, mixing up the names of the leaders of Mexico and Egypt and deriding the investigators’ questioning of his mental fitness.

“We all know @JoeBiden can’t do the job,” Scott said.

“In defending his mental sharpness, Biden just mixed up the presidents of Mexico and Egypt,” Scott also said. “This train wreck of a press conference confirms the need for the 25th Amendment.”

The report noted charges were not filed in regard to Biden’s handling of classified documents after he left the vice presidency, but the reason for no formal charges related to Biden’s likely perceived mental acuity in front of a jury.

“We have also considered that, at trial, Mr. Biden would likely present himself to a jury, as he did during our interview of him, as a sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory,” the report said.

It concluded that Biden did willfully retain, and share, classified information as a private citizen.

The special counsel’s report also said that Biden could not remember, within “years,” of when is son, Beau passed, and had a difficult time recalling when he was and was not vice president.

Under the 25th Amendment, the vice president and majority of Cabinet officers can declare to Congress that the president cannot exercise his office’s powers. Once the vice president and Cabinet approve, the vice president becomes acting president.

The president can then issue a declaration that he can still exercise his duties, but the Cabinet and vice president can bring the issue back to Congress to make the ultimate decision with two-thirds votes.

Gov. Ron DeSantis press secretary Jeremy Redfern said if the current president were a Republican, “there’d be multiple Republicans in Congress calling for him to step down.”

“Democrats don’t play those games, though,” he said. “They’ll stay in lock-step until told otherwise.”

A recent NBC News poll from January already signified a worrying trend for Biden, with of the 1,000 registered voters included, only 23% found him mentally and physically fit to be president, while 46% said the same about Trump. The shift represented an 18-point swing against Biden.