Former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley reiterated her call for President Joe Biden to take a mental competency test in the wake of a bombshell report from special counsel Robert Hur on the president’s mishandling of classified documents.
Although Hur wrote that Biden’s actions risked serious damage to America’s national security, he would not bring criminal charges against Biden. But his 345-page report detailed startling insights into the president’s mental acuity, prompting alarm from Republicans, including Haley.
In the report, Hur wrote that Biden’s “memory was significantly limited, both during his recorded interviews with the ghostwriter in 2017, and in his interview with our office in 2023″ and that Biden was unable to remember “even within several years,” when his son Beau died.
The special counsel also noted that to a jury, the president would appear “as he did during our interview of him, as a sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory.”
Haley, a presidential candidate aiming to take Biden on in November, slammed Biden over the allegations.
“Joe Biden can’t remember major events in his life, like when he was vice president or when his son died,” Haley said on Thursday mere hours after the report was released. “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. Joe Biden should take a mental competency test immediately, and it should be shared with the public.”
The former South Carolina governor launched her presidential campaign one year ago by calling for term limits for lawmakers and mental competency tests for politicians over the age of 75, which includes the 81-year-old Biden and former President Donald Trump, the 77-year-old GOP presidential front-runner.
She has continued to hammer the two men over their seniority on the campaign trail as she battles Trump to become the GOP’s next standard-bearer.
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Biden in a statement released on Thursday said he was “pleased to see they reached the conclusion I believed all along they would reach – that there would be no charges brought in this case and the matter is now closed.”
“Over my career in public service, I have always worked to protect America’s security,” he added. “I take these issues seriously and no one has ever questioned that. “
