Professor John Yoo Calls for Special Counsel to Investigate Biden Decline
“Here I say, let’s have Robert Hur come back and do it right, a special counsel who conducts it like a prosecutor.”
Professor John Yoo served in the George W. Bush administration and teaches law at UC-Berkeley. You may know him from his frequent appearances in media. This week, he was on FOX News with Kayleigh McEnany who was filling in for Jesse Watters.
Yoo suggested that there should be a special counsel, and a special congressional committee to investigate Biden’s mental decline. Yoo stressed that this is about more than Biden, saying it is about the office of the president no matter who is serving.
Partial transcript via Real Clear Politics:
KAYLEIGH MCENANY, GUEST HOST: Immigration, releasing prisoners from Guantanamo Bay — these are serious issues, and yet Democrats, elected Democrats, questioned whether Biden’s acuity affected those issues that affected you. And this is just the tip of the iceberg. What happened in the Situation Room? How about the Oval Office when just a few people were in the room?
My next guest says the way to get the answers is indeed a special counsel. Professor John Yoo worked on the Whitewater Congressional Committee and was also former Deputy Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Legal Counsel…
JOHN YOO, FORMER DEPUTY ASSISTANT ATTORNEY GENERAL DURING THE GEORGE W. BUSH ADMINISTRATION: I think the first thing it does is 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, and 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.
And 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 right, a special counsel who conducts it like a prosecutor.
And if those Biden aides, Biden family members refuse to cooperate, then you have the Justice Department can go in and force those subpoenas and throw people in jail for refusing to answer Congress’ questions.
MCENANY: So that is a fantastic idea. The special counsel. You were the first one I ever heard float that idea, and I’ve since picked up on it. I believe in it very much…
YOO: We’ve got two special counsels. One is you can 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. She could just appoint Robert Hur special counsel, just like he was before.
Watch it all below:
🚨 Professor John Yoo — who has called for a special congressional committee and special counsel into Biden's mental decline — said:
"It's not to settle scores… It's to fix the presidency going forward."
"I don't think the Founders, who put all this power in the… pic.twitter.com/JvmYpmigft
— Kayleigh McEnany (@kayleighmcenany) May 24, 2025
This scandal just got worse with Biden’s cancer diagnosis. Now we need to know when they really found that out and who knew about it before now.
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“I think the first thing it does is it would get people under oath. These people could then not lie, obfuscate, tell the American people things that are not true”
So cute, To think that people under oath never lie.
That aside, sure, why not a special prosecutor. Go for it. We all want to know who was the man or woman behind the curtain.
I’m still not sure what laws were broken by hiding Biden’s senility, signing things he didn’t know about or understand or refusing to remove him from office.
Hiding his senility was not a crime. Nor was failing to remove him; no one had any duty to do so. But if someone used the autopen to sign a bill without the president’s authority, or issued an order or pardon without the president’s authority, that would surely be a crime. And of course the bill, order, or pardon would be invalid. The problem is proving it. Just because he doesn’t remember authorizing a signature doesn’t mean he didn’t do so.
Biden and the dem machine lied and covered up biden’s medical condition for 4 years.
He will be dead within 6 months, and there will be state funeral with wall to wall coverage from friendly media outlets framing a sympathetic narrative.
The left is hoping he’ll die sooner than later.
It would be a hoot if he lived another 25 years from all the dope he has been shot up with, but we all know his death will occur at a convenient moment.
Dr Kill stands ready, pillow in hand!!
Surprised it hasn’t already happened. Guess that if Joe were to leave office and immediately die it would be a little too obvious what happened.
If your counting on Bondi
Your going to be disappointed
If you’re counting on republicans you’re going to be disappointed. All talk and no action.
I work in state government. If a supervisor is going to be absent and wants a subordinate to make decisions in his absence, the super most provide the subordinate with a written delegation of authority. This goes all the way up the chain of command. The only person in the executive branch of a state government who does not exercise authority with a delegation is the governor, who receives his authority directly from the state constitution, as the POTUS receives his authority from the Article II of the federal Constitution.
If anyone at the White House was, let’s say, operating the autopen without a written delegation of authority to do so, that person was illegally exercising the authority of the POTUS. Those who exercised federal executive authority without written delegations of authority need to be identified, charged, and prosecuted. It’s a true “constitutional crisis” when persons exercise Article II powers without the necessary authority.
“If anyone at the White House was, let’s say, operating the autopen without a written delegation of authority to do so, that person was illegally exercising the authority of the POTUS.”
Point out the law that say’s that? If you can I’m all on board with throwing the entire lot of them into prison. Actually, I ‘d like to do it anyways but we need an actual basis for it and not an investigation that lasts years until whatever the statute of limitations is runs out
There’s no requirement for written authority, but there must certainly be authority. The president must personally authorize each use of the autopen to sign on his behalf; he can’t just delegate the authority to someone in advance, as you describe it. He must personally make the decision to sign; then he can have someone else do it for him. Traditionally the rule was always that he had to actually be in the room. 0bama was the first president to break that rule, ordering a bill to be signed while he was traveling, and the validity of that signature was never challenged but it was likely invalid. However he did consciously and knowingly authorize it, which is likely more than Biden did, if only it could be proved.
How about a Special Counsel to investigate Comey’s sea shells?
There’s no possible crime there. Even if he had actually written “Kill Trump” it would have been protected speech.
Wonder if anyone could/would point me to those federal laws that were broken by having others “exercise the power of the office of the presidency without authorization”. Because I’ve looked and come up empty handed so far.
So some Puppeteer gets to pardon crimes against humanity and its fine as long as it’s in the President’s name?
Just to start.
As long as it’s in the Puppet’s name.