“Chaos” is the inevitable result of our country’s adversaries witnessing a United States president whose “own party has declared mentally unfit,” according to Florida Republican Rep. Mike Waltz. He argued Joe Biden’s weakness has “emboldened our enemies” and led to a series of international humiliations and increased threats, with the “wide-open” southern border serving as a “recipe for disaster for America.”
In an exclusive statement to Breitbart News on Wednesday, Waltz, a member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, House Armed Services Committee, and House Foreign Affairs Committee, warned that “weakness invites aggression” as he insisted that the president’s current standing is leading the country to mayhem.
“When our adversaries see a United States president that even his own party has declared mentally unfit, it signals to them that they can act with impunity, and chaos is the inevitable result,” he stated.
Grab your popcorn! White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre sparred with reporters on Monday while dodging specifics about President Joe Biden's health.
“It’s a very basic, direct question!” one reporter yelled. pic.twitter.com/yokmdGKaQ4
— Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) July 8, 2024
According to Waltz, who is a colonel in the National Guard as well as a former White House and Pentagon policy adviser and the first Green Beret to be elected to Congress, Biden’s weakness has “already emboldened our enemies.”
“Since he took office, we have been humiliated in Afghanistan, Putin has invaded Ukraine, Hamas and Iran have attacked Israel, and China has ramped up its aggression in the Pacific,” he noted. “And all of this occurred before Democrats were forced to acknowledge his cognitive decline.”
“Now that it’s known that the president is only active for six hours a day, what do you think [our adversaries] will do next?” he asked.
DOOCY: Biden says he's best before 8p, but say the Pentagon picks up an incoming nuke at 11pm — who do you call? Nurse Jill?
KARINE JEAN-PIERRE: "He has a team." pic.twitter.com/qVf4zHmaNB
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) July 9, 2024
The Florida congressman, who served as a Special Forces commander in Afghanistan, also highlighted the fact that “we have unknown numbers of people pouring through Biden’s wide-open border, some of whom are coming in through ISIS-affiliated smuggling networks,” which he described as a “recipe for disaster for America.”
This needs to be shouted from the rooftops: The FBI literally DOES NOT KNOW the location of dozens of potential terrorists that have come across our Southern Border. pic.twitter.com/nSVYe4pKsi
— Rep. Mike Waltz (@michaelgwaltz) July 2, 2024
The matter comes as the GOP-led House Oversight Committee subpoenaed three “very influential” aides to President Biden over his mental fitness in an effort to increase scrutiny on the administration.
Following his lackluster debate performance against Trump in Atlanta last month, a handful of congressional Democrats have called on Biden to step down, with widespread panic leading to chatter of replacing the 81-year-old in a last-ditch effort to win the election.
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Rep. Michael Waltz (R-FL) questions the panel while Rep. Mike Johnson (R-LA) holds a map of the Middle East during an House Armed Services Committee hearing on ending the U.S. Military Mission in Afghanistan on September 29, 2021 in Washington, DC. (Rod Lamkey-Pool/Getty Images)
On Tuesday, Rep. Wesley Hunt called for “investigations” into the circumstances surrounding President Biden’s evident cognitive decline, warning that if White House staffers were aware of the president’s “debilitating” medical condition and intentionally hid it from the public, it would be “the biggest scandal in American political history.”
.@WesleyHuntTX: “Now that we know [Biden's] day begins at 10 a.m. and ends at 4 p.m., who is taking the 3 a.m. phone call if a national security crisis pops off? Will it be de facto President Dr. Jill? Or will it be the convicted felon and former drug addict Hunter?” pic.twitter.com/kVqvaRpAxM
— Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) July 10, 2024
In February, Rep. Waltz accused President Biden of “deliberately” sabotaging any element of surprise in his planned response to the killing of three U.S. troops in an attack by Iran-backed militias, as he called for both a “strong military response” and a “complete policy shift” to return to former President Donald Trump’s “maximum” economic pressure on the Iranian regime.
Joshua Klein is a reporter for Breitbart News. Email him at jklein@breitbart.com. Follow him on Twitter @JoshuaKlein.
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