Hugh Hewitt Calls On Biden to Resign ‘Now’ In Wild Fox News Op-Ed Calling President ‘Erratic and Infirm’

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Conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt called on President Joe Biden to resign his office “now” in a bombastic op-ed published by Fox News digital on Tuesday.

Hewitt pulled no punches in his analysis of Biden’s physical and mental health and argued the president has become a national security threat.

“We have known for some time that the president is infirm, but infirmity goes to physical capacity. He moves stiffly. He tires. Public events are rare and always fraught,” Hewitt began his argument, adding:

The president is now also revealed as impaired. He cannot remember basic facts. He cannot deliver even the simplest line. Reports of his angry temper and his profanity are consistent, if not with dementia, then certainly with an ability to weigh and judge important matters with a calm and coherent mind.

Hewitt was referring to Biden’s reported use of expletives while describing both former President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in private conversations. Biden reportedly slammed Trump as a “sick fuck” over Trump’s laughing at Nancy Pelosi’s husband being hit in the head with a hammer during a home invasion.

Hewitt goes on to argue that Americans have “sympathy for the aging, the infirm and the impaired.” He notes that many jobs in public service can be capably conducted by those well into their eighties:

Senators Storm Thurmond [sic] and Dianne Feinstein, for example, stayed on in the Senate long past their ability to process information —a very different situation from that of, say, Senator Chuck Grassley who at 90 may not sprint down the marbled halls but knows exactly where he’s going and what he intends to get done.

While citing Grassley as an example of someone who should remain in their position of power despite his age, Hewitt argues that the presidency should be held to a different standard given the need to resolve immediate and pressing crises.

“And the president must have the capacity to decide and lead. President Biden does not have that capacity anymore,” Hewitt argues, adding:

And it is painfully clear that Biden can no longer do it. The most obvious deficiency? Part of this most critical job is in communicating with the American people. For the first time in my memory, the United States embarked on a significant military campaign—this one against Yemen—and the president did not address the country about why. He didn’t even do the softball Super Bowl interview. He is not trusted by himself or his staff to engage in any serious sit down with a journalist much less the many exchanges with journalists he ought to be having.

Hewitt goes on to cite some of Biden’s recent public gaffes and Special Counsel Robert Hur’s report detailing memory lapses from Biden during his interview for the investigation.

Hewitt concludes by arguing America is at a moment of crisis and needs new and decisive leadership.

“We have such a bad government now, with a crisis on the southern border, a failed splurge of trillions on Bidenomics which unleashed inflation that torments everyone who buys gas and groceries, and of course Americans under attack across the Middle East by Iran’s fanatics, fanatics who do not fear Biden,” Hewitt writes, concluding:

Israel has now begun to glimpse what an erratic and infirm president means and it’s a warning to us as well. Please, whomever the president listens to, speak candidly to him. It is time for him to go, before another crisis arrives, one which he is simply not capable of handling.

Notably, Netanyahu defended Biden over the weekend when asked about criticisms of his mental state, calling the president “very clear” and “very focused.”

Read the full op-ed here.