Legal Scholar Floats Familiar Name To Lead Potential Special Committee On Biden’s Health

Legal scholar and former Department of Justice (DOJ) official John Yoo said Friday on “Jesse Watters Primetime” that he would suggest having former Special Counsel Robert Hur lead a potential special committee — one he has advised Congress to create — on former President Joe Biden’s mental health.

Since the release of “Original Sin,” CNN’s Jake Tapper and Axios’ Alex Thompson’s book on Biden’s mental decline during his time as president, calls for an investigation into how the cover-up was conducted have been requested. Questioning Yoo on his proposal for Congress to create a special committee for the investigation, guest host Kayleigh McEnany asked how it would compare to House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer beginning his probe into the issue.

“I think the first thing it does is that it would get people under oath. These people could then not lie, obfuscate, tell the American people things that are not true in order to cover up President Biden’s health. Also, I think, to conceal whether they themselves abused power, broke federal laws by exercising the power of the Office of the Presidency without his authorization,” Yoo said.

“That kind of investigation usually has a single person, a special counsel. Here, I say, let’s have Robert Hur come back and do it, a special counsel who conducts it like a prosecutor,” Yoo added. “If those Biden aides, Biden family members refuse to cooperate, then you have the Justice Department [who] can go in and force those subpoenas and throw people in jail for refusing to answer Congress’s questions.”

On Thursday, Comer told Fox News host Jesse Watters that the Oversight Committee had sent letters to four former Biden staffers as well as former White House physician Kevin O’Connor, calling them in for questioning. (RELATED: Victor Davis Hanson Says Tapper’s Biden Flip-Flop Proves It Was Always About Politics)

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Comer noted that if the five denied the request for questioning, the committee would then begin to issue subpoenas.

McEnany went on to ask Yoo how appointing Hur to the potential investigation would function, noting that Hur could not reasonably be considered biased given his role in pursuing a case against the Trump administration.

“We’ve got two special counsels. One is you could have one created by Congress. Congress can just put someone in charge of their own investigation, like you mentioned, Watergate, Iran-Contra, January 6. Or the Justice Department can trigger those regulations that you mentioned earlier. That would be up to Attorney General Pam Bondi,” Yoo responded. “She could just appoint Robert Hur special counsel, just like he was before.”

“In fact, you could almost say he has unfinished business. We only got a glimpse of it from Robert Hur’s first investigation when he said, ‘Joe Biden could not actually be put on criminal trial because he’s a well-meaning man who has memory issues,’” Yoo said. “Robert Hur’s already halfway deep into the case. Why not get the guy who’s already the expert on this? Pam Bondi just has to ask, and he has to accept, and then they can get started right away.”

Despite concerns from Republicans prior to Biden’s time as president, Biden’s health as president became so severe that aides discussed putting him in a wheelchair, according to Tapper and Thompson’s book.

In January 2023, former Attorney General Merrick Garland tapped Hur to be the special counsel investigating the case of Biden mishandling classified documents. By February 2024, Hur released his report notably labeling Biden as an “elderly man with a poor memory” and declining to pursue criminal charges.

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