The truth about former President Joe Biden’s cognitive decline may be even worse than Americans could have imagined.
A Secret Service whistleblower claimed that former President Biden was so disoriented that he would sometimes “get lost in his closet,” Missouri Republican Sen. Josh Hawley said on Fox News on Friday.
“Am I overstating it when I say this is the biggest White House presidential scandal in history?” Fox News host Sean Hannity said to start the segment.
“No, I don’t think so, Sean, not — because listen, I’ll tell you something that I haven’t said before because it came from a Secret Service whistleblower this past year. I talked to so many of them after the attempted assassinations of President Trump. But this Secret Service whistleblower actually was assigned to Biden and he told me that Biden used to get lost in his closet in the mornings in the White House. I mean the guy literally stumbling around in the White House residence, couldn’t find his way out of his own closet, the president of the United States,” the senator said.
“I mean, this is outrageous. We were lied to and, Sean, you know as well as I do, the press has a huge role in this. I mean, the press actually is really important in America. They’re supposed to report the truth it’s what you do every night, it’s not what the liberal media did though. They sold this country out for years and they did it for power and they need to be held accountable as well,” he said.
Hannity asked if it was true that there was more “autopen activity in the last 100 days than there were in the first three and a half years” and that one of his staffers said “you know, we’ll — we’ll let him — we’ll put him in hiding and bring him out every once in a while to show proof of life?”
“Oh, absolutely. I mean, one of the worst constitutional crises of our country’s history, and we’ve just lived through it, I’d like to know. We need to find out who actually signed off, so to speak, on all of those autopen signatures, on all of those pardons, all of those clemencies,” Hawley said.
Joe Biden spent his years as President stumbling around in the White House
Americans were lied to—and the press was complicit in all of it
It was the liberal media that sold this country out for years & they need to be held accountable pic.twitter.com/GYRrXf2vSr
— Josh Hawley (@HawleyMO) May 31, 2025
“You remember, Sean, who he pardoned and who he granted clemency to in the final months of his presidency after they lost the election. I mean, it’s an unbelievable rogues gallery of crooks and criminals and terrible people, rapists and others. I mean, who actually was doing that?” the senator said.
“We know it wasn’t Biden. He didn’t know anything about it. So, yeah, we’ve got to figure out who was actually in charge because it sure as heck wasn’t Joe Biden, and I just come back to the fact that the media knew this. They knew it. They lied about it,” the Republican said.
“They betrayed us, Sean. They betrayed this country. They sold this country out for their own political power. These people can never be trusted again, and it’s — they need to be held accountable as much as anybody else,” he said.
Hannity asked if the pardons and executive orders were signed with an autopen would that make them void.
“Well, Article 2 gives the president and only the president the power to grant pardons, clemencies and so forth. So if someone other than the president was doing it, Sean, I don’t see how those things can stand. I mean, this is why we’ve got to figure out who was actually in charge here,” the senator said.
“I mean, it’s a huge, huge stain, a huge crisis for the country. It’s amazing we survived it, to be honest with you. You think how dangerous there was — this was. What if there had been a nuclear war? I mean that’s how dangerous it was,” Hawley added.