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Senate hearing on who was ‘really running’ Biden White House kicks off Wednesday
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Senate Republicans are gearing up for the first full-scale congressional hearing into the alleged cover-up of former President Joe Biden’s cognitive decline.
Senators John Cornyn, R-Texas., and Eric Schmitt, R-Mo. will co-chair a Senate Judiciary Hearing Wednesday that delves into «what exactly went on» during Biden’s term and why the constitutional power to remove him from office wasn’t triggered.
Cornyn said on the Senate floor that one of the main goals of the hearing was to shine a light on what happened behind the scenes during landmark moments of Biden’s presidency, «from the Biden border crisis to the disastrous results from the withdrawal in Afghanistan.
EX-WHITE HOUSE OFFICIALS TO TESTIFY ON WHO ‘REALLY RAN THE COUNTRY’ DURING BIDEN ERA
Senators Eric Schmitt, left, and John Cornyn, launched a hearing into the alleged cover-up of former President Joe Biden’s health decline. (Getty)
«And it’s now clear that for many months — no one knows exactly how long — the president was simply not up to the task,» he said. «Whoever happened to be making those decisions and carrying out the duties of the Office of President was not somebody who was authorized by the Constitution or by a vote of the American people.»
Cornyn and Schmitt’s hearing, first announced late last month, will be held after the release of the book «Original Sin» by CNN host Jake Tapper and Axios reporter Alex Thompson, which alleges the Biden White House was trying to control the narrative about the former president’s health and that his allies worked to cover up his decline.
SENATE REPUBLICANS PLAN HEARING ON BIDEN’S ALLEGED COGNITIVE DECLINE COVER-UP
A new book described President Joe Biden’s Cabinet meetings as «scripted» and «uncomfortable.» (Paul Morigi/Getty Images for Care Can’t Wait Action)
The hearing, «Unfit to Serve: How the Biden Cover-Up Endangered America and Undermined the Constitution,» features a trio of witnesses called by the Senate Republican duo who served during President Donald Trump’s first term and during the Reagan and Bush years.
Among the Republicans’ witnesses are Theodore Wold, who formerly served as acting assistant attorney general in the Office of Legal Policy at the Justice Department and deputy assistant to the president for domestic policy during the Trump administration; Sean Spicer, former White House press secretary and communications director; and John Harrison, a legal scholar from the University of Virginia School of Law who previously served during former the Reagan and Bush administrations.
Wold and Harrison told Fox News Digital their testimony would focus on Biden’s alleged usage of an autopen, a device that is used to automatically mimic a person’s signature, typically used signing of numerous documents, and how the usage of the device may have acted as a smokescreen to prevent the triggering of the 25th Amendment.
SCOOP: GOP PUSH FOR NEW HOUSE COMMITTEE TO PROBE BIDEN DECLINE ‘COVER-UP’ GAINS STEAM
President Trump called on Attorney General Pam Bondi to launch an investigation into whether former President Joe Biden’s team used an autopen and covered up the former president’s cognitive decline. (Reuters; AP)
Biden has rejected assertions by lawmakers and Trump that he habitually used an autopen. Trump recently ordered Attorney General Pam Bondi to open an investigation into whether the former president’s aides «abused the power of Presidential signatures through the use of an autopen to conceal Biden’s cognitive decline.»
Spicer’s testimony will focus on the media’s treatment of Trump compared to Biden during their respective first terms and how some media outlets were allegedly «silent» when it came to signs of the ex-president’s decline.
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Democrats on the panel did not call any witnesses.
The top-ranking Democrat on the committee, Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., contended that Cornyn and Schmitt were wasting the panel’s time with their endeavor.
«We have so many important topics to consider, and this is a totally political undertaking by several of my colleagues,» he said. «It is a waste of the Senate Judiciary Committee’s time.»
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Jewish leader predicts violent future for NYC residents if Mamdani wins in November: ‘Real concern’
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A New York City Jewish leader is speaking out about the possibility of a Zohran Mamdani term as mayor of New York City, telling Fox News Digital he is concerned about the safety of Jewish residents, as well as all New Yorkers.
Scott Feltman, executive vice president of the One Israel Fund, told Fox News Digital that the Jewish community in the country’s largest city is «not against» a Muslim or any person of faith running for office, but what they do oppose is candidates that «align themselves with nefarious actors» like Hamas or Hezbollah.
«He was just recorded at a local mosque where the Imam of that mosque has basically called for the death of IDF soldiers and praised the efforts of Hamas,» Feltman said. «So that’s what we’re opposed to, and it’s a very, very real serious concern.»
Feltman pointed to the rise of antisemitic attacks in recent years, particularly in New York City, which he says has «created a certain trepidation in the Jewish community and having this particular candidate now making such inroads» is a «real concern.»
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Fox News Digital spoke to One Israel Fund EVP about the rise of Zohran Mamdani in NYC. (Getty; Fox News Digital)
Two Israeli embassy staffers were killed in Washington, D.C., earlier this year by a man shouting «free Palestine» around the same time that an Egyptian man targeted a pro-Israel demonstration, killing one person and injuring several others, in Boulder, Colorado.
«I know that every single day I fear for my own staff knowing that our organization has been called out by this candidate, and we have no idea, you know, who’s following him and what their interests and what their actions may be. So it is a real serious concern.»
Mamdani, along with actress Cynthia Nixon, called out the One Israel Fund earlier this month in a post Feltman responded to with an article in American Thinker.
«When you go out and you align yourselves with terminology like globalize the intifada, which is basically a euphemism for kill Jews all over the world, that’s what it is, the intifada was basically a movement in Israel 25 years ago to destroy the state of Israel and didn’t discriminate against civilian or military personnel,» Feltman told Fox News Digital.
NYC COUNCILWOMAN WARNS MAMDANI VICTORY WILL DRIVE AWAY KEY VOTING BLOC: ‘AFRAID TO LIVE HERE’
Zohran Mamdani campaigns in New York City on April 16, 2025. (Angela Weiss/AFP via Getty Images)
«And when you want to globalize that, the messaging is very clear to the people who are listening and following and that has put many people in the Jewish community, if not all of us, on notice and has created the feeling of genuine concern. I’m concerned for New York City in general. It’s not just the Jewish community. His platform of defunding the police and basically offering all kinds of free things to people, which I don’t think he can even accomplish, even though he keeps doubling down on the rhetoric, but just defunding the police puts everyone here in jeopardy.»
Mamdani has been widely criticized for his initial failure to condemn the phrase «globalize the intifada», which many Jewish people view as a call for violence. Mamdani eventually walked back his initial reluctance by saying he discourages people from using the phrase and told business leaders he would not use it.
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Zohran Mamdani arrives for a news conference at Astoria Park in the Queens borough of New York, on June 24, 2025. (Christian Monterrosa/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
Feltman referred to Mamdani as a «social media darling» and complimented the way he has been able to mobilize voters but said, ultimately, while discussing his rise, that the education system has done a «tremendous injustice to our children, especially on the university level where we see antisemitism exploding exponentially.»
Fox News Digital reached out to Mamdani’s campaign for comment.
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UN court rules wealthy nations pay up for climate change damages in controversial global ruling
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The United Nations’ highest court on Wednesday ruled that wealthy countries must comply with their commitments to curb fossil fuels and pollution or risk being held financially liable by nations hit the hardest by climate change.
The 15-member U.N. International Court of Justice said that treaties compel rich nations to curb global warming and that the countries were also responsible for the actions of companies under their jurisdiction or control, Reuters reported.
«States must cooperate to achieve concrete emission reduction targets,» Judge Yuji Iwasawa said at The Hague. «Greenhouse gas emissions are unequivocally caused by human activities which are not territorially limited.»
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Climate activists and campaigners demonstrate outside the International Court of Justice (ICJ) ahead of Wednesday’s opinion that will likely determine the course of future climate change at The Hague, Netherlands, July 23, 2025. (REUTERS/Marta Fiorin)
Failure to do so could result in «full reparations to injured states in the form of restitution, compensation and satisfaction provided that the general conditions of the law of state responsibility are met,» the report states.
In response to the ruling, White House spokeswoman Taylor Rogers told Fox News Digital that «as always, President Trump and the entire Administration is committed to putting America first and prioritizing the interests of everyday Americans.»
U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said the court opinion affirms that Paris climate agreement goals need to be the basis of all climate policies.
SCOTUS RULES ON TRUMP’S BIRTHRIGHT CITIZENSHIP ORDER, TESTING LOWER COURT POWERS
Tuvalu delegation arrives for the United Nations’ top court International Court of Justice (ICJ)’s public hearings in an advisory opinion case, that may become a reference point in defining countries’ legal obligations to fight climate change, in The Hague, Netherlands, December 2 2024. (REUTERS/Piroschka van de Wouw/File Photo)
«This is a victory for our planet, for climate justice, and for the power of young people to make a difference,» he said. «The world must respond.»
Wednesday’s ruling was hailed by a number of small nation states.
«I didn’t expect it to be this good,» said Ralph Regenvanu, the climate minister for the Pacific island nation of Vanuatu.
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Many developing nations and small island states have said they are at great risk from rising sea levels. Some have sought clarification from the court after the 2015 Paris Agreement failure to curb the growth of global greenhouse gas emissions.
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Complicaciones para Trump: aseguran que aparece en los archivos del caso Epstein en «múltiples ocasiones»
El presidente de Estados Unidos, Donald Trump, fue informado en mayo pasado por funcionarios del Departamento de Justicia que su nombre aparece en “múltiples ocasiones” en los archivos del polémico caso contra el pederasta Jeffrey Epstein. Lo reportó este miércoles The Wall Street Journal.
En tanto, una subcomisión de la Cámara de Representantes votó a favor de requerir a ese mismo Departamento de Justicia los archivos de la investigación a Epstein por tráfico sexual, después de que los demócratas convencieran a legisladores republicanos de desafiar a Trump y al liderazgo republicano para apoyar la medida.
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El diario, en base a funcionarios de la Administración del magnate republicano, afirmó que la fiscal general, Pam Bondi, y su número dos, Todd Blanche, comunicaron al mandatario que su nombre figuraba en los documentos junto a otras figuras conocidas.
Caso Epstein: hay cientos de nombres
El presidente negó la semana pasada que Bondi le hubiera informado si su nombre figuraba en los archivos.
En una “sesión informativa de rutina”, Bondi y su equipo habrían informado a Trump que los archivos contenían lo que consideraron como “rumores no verificados sobre muchas personas, incluido Trump, que habían tenido contacto con Epstein en el pasado”. Jeffrey Epstein se suicidó en prisión en 2019 (Foto: Reuters)
Según The Wall Street Journal, una de las fuentes con conocimiento de los documentos afirmó que estos “incluyen cientos de nombres más”.
Los directivos del Departamento de Justicia también habrían informado a Trump que no planeaban publicar más detalles sobre el caso, después de que confirmaran a inicios de julio que no había evidencias sobre la existencia de una “lista de clientes” a los que el magnate chantajeaba por su rol en fiestas sexuales que involucraban a menores de edad.
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El pederasta se suicidó en una prisión federal en 2019.
Trump está en guerra contra el periódico norteamericano. El viernes presentó una demanda por 10 millones de dólares contra Dow Jones, empresa matriz del diario, y su propietario, el multimillonario Rupert Murdoch.
El mandatario estadounidense afirma que el periódico lo calumnió cuando publicó un artículo que alega que una felicitación de cumpleaños con el nombre de Trump y un dibujo obsceno fue enviada a Epstein en 2003, antes de que el financista fuera acusado de delitos sexuales. Trump dijo que la versión es “falsa”.
El Capitolio pide informes sobre el caso Epstein
Mientras tanto, una subcomisión de la Cámara de Representantes votó este miércoles a favor de requerir al Departamento de Justicia los archivos de la investigación a Epstein por tráfico sexual, después de que los demócratas convencieran a legisladores republicanos de desafiar a Trump y al liderazgo republicano para apoyar la medida.
Los demócratas de una subcomisión de la poderosa Comisión de Supervisión de la cámara alta presentaron una moción en ese sentido, pocas horas antes de que la Cámara de Representantes finalice su periodo de sesiones de julio y tome un receso de un mes. Tres republicanos del panel votaron con los demócratas a favor del requerimiento. La medida fue aprobada por 8 votos a favor y 2 en contra.
El presidente de la subcomisión, el representante republicano Clay Higgins, dijo que se estaba comenzando a redactar la citación, pero que tomaría algún tiempo para que ambas partes acordaran la redacción final. Donald Trump, presidente de los Estados Unidos (Foto: REUTERS/Kent Nishimura)
“Si el Partido Republicano, si nuestros colegas de esta comisión no se unen a nosotros en esta votación, entonces lo que están haciendo esencialmente es unirse al presidente Donald Trump en complicidad”, dijo a los periodistas la representante demócrata Summer Lee, que presentó la moción.
Los líderes demócratas esperan hacer del tema algo mucho más que solo Epstein, quien murió en su celda de Nueva York hace seis años mientras esperaba juicio por cargos de tráfico sexual.
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”¿Por qué los republicanos no han liberado los archivos de Epstein al pueblo estadounidense? Es razonable concluir que continúan protegiendo los estilos de vida de los ricos y desvergonzados, aun si eso incluye a pedófilos”, dijo el líder demócrata de la Cámara de Representantes, Hakeem Jeffries, en una conferencia de prensa.
El Departamento de Justicia de Trump pidió la liberación de testimonios de procedimientos secretos del jurado investigador en el caso Epstein, aunque es poco probable que esto produzca nuevas revelaciones.
La Comisión de Supervisión de la Cámara de Representantes, con el apoyo de los republicanos, también impulsó el martes una citación para la exnovia de Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell, con el objetivo de que rinda testimonio.
(Con información de EFE y AP)
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