BREAKING: Trump defends 'cognitively impaired' Biden, accuses Dems of taking advantage of him, Autopen

President Donald Trump on Tuesday defended former President Joe Biden, saying that he was "not for open borders" and that people around him who knew he was "cognitively impaired" were taking advantage of him.

Trump posted to Truth Social, "Joe Biden was not for Open Borders, he never talked about Open Borders, where criminals of all kinds, shapes, and sizes, can flow into our Country at will. It wasn’t his idea to Open the Border, and almost destroy our Country, and cost us Hundreds of Billions of Dollars to get criminals out of our Country, and go through the process we are going through now. It was the people that knew he was cognitively impaired, and that took over the Autopen."

"They stole the Presidency of the United States, and put us in Great Danger. This is TREASON at the Highest Level! They did it to destroy our Country. The Joe Biden that everybody knew would never allow drug dealers, gang members, and the mentally insane to come into our Country totally unchecked and unvetted. All anyone has to do is look up his record. Something very severe should happen to these Treasonous Thugs that wanted to destroy our Country, but couldn’t, because I came along. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!" Trump added.

The shocking statement from Trump comes after it was revealed that Biden has been diagnosed with stage four prostate cancer, and audio from an interview between him and special counsel Robert Hur showed that former president experiencing problems with memory as well as the ability to carry out a long conversation. The audio was recorded in October 2023, over a year before he stepped down as president. 

Statements from other politicians have also painted a picture of Biden's decline, with House Speaker Mike Johnson saying earlier this year that he met with the president at one point where Biden did not remember signing an executive order that he had passed just weeks beforehand on natural gas.  

Other Republicans in the Senate have said that they did not speak to Biden even once over the four years that he was president, which Texas Senator Ted Cruz said was "bizarre."