What Trump ordering an investigation into Biden’s actions might mean legally and politically
President Donald Trump has ordered an investigation into pardons and other executive actions issued by his predecessor, Joe Biden — launching an unprecedented effort to show that the Democrat hid his cognitive decline and was otherwise too mentally impaired to do the job. Trump, who turns 79 this month, has long questioned the mental acuity and physical stamina of Biden, and his now directing his administration to use governmental investigative powers to try and back up those assertions. Biden, 82, and now undergoing treatments for prostate cancer, dismissed Trump’s actions as “ridiculous.” Legal experts say a president’s right to issue pardons is absolute and expect that the legal consequences of Trump’s order are unlikely to be greater than the political impact.
