‘I Simply Asked A Question’: Cornyn Tries To Clean Up Fuss Over Biden’s Normal Tweets

Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) looks on as he listens to Supreme Court nominee Judge Amy Coney Barrett testimony on the third day of her confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Capitol Hill on Octo... Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) looks on as he listens to Supreme Court nominee Judge Amy Coney Barrett testimony on the third day of her confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Capitol Hill on October 14, 2020 in Washington, DC. - After liberal icon Ruth Bader Ginsburg's death last month left the nine-member court with a vacancy, Trump has rushed to fill it at the height of his presidential election battle against Democrat Joe Biden. (Photo by Andrew Caballero-Reynolds / POOL / AFP) (Photo by ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS/POOL/AFP via Getty Images) MORE LESS
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Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) on Sunday claimed that he wasn’t questioning President Biden’s capabilities as commander in chief, following the Texas senator’s tweet last week that took issue with the President’s normal tweets.

Last week, Cornyn tweeted an excerpt from a Politico article on Biden’s modest media presence, before posting a follow-up tweet suggesting that the President’s restraint on Twitter usage “invites the question: is he really in charge?”

Asked about his tweet and whether it was “helpful” to question Biden’s mental faculties during an interview on “Fox News Sunday,” Cornyn insisted that his tweet was innocuous and that he was simply tweeting his thoughts aloud.

“I think there’s been a lot of confusion in the Twitterverse about that,” Cornyn said. “That actually was a quote from a Politico story that I pasted into a tweet and then I simply asked a question.”

Cornyn said he was supposedly trying to “reconcile” Biden’s posture when he entered office as the President in January, his previous term as a senator and his first legislative success in the passage of the $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief plan without Republican support.

“I’ve learned in Washington, you not only need to listen to what people say, you need to watch what they do,” Cornyn said. “And so far, there’s a conflict I’m trying to reconcile and I bet I’m not the only one.”

Pressed again on whether his tweet meant that he actually questions whether Biden is “really in charge,” Cornyn said that it was not meant to insinuate anything regarding the President’s competency.

“I know some people have suggested that and that certainly wasn’t my intention,” Cornyn said, appearing to refer to a gambit that former President Trump and his allies deployed throughout the 2020 presidential election cycle as a baseless way to attack Biden. “I simply tried to reconcile the rhetoric with the reality.”

Cornyn then made a rich assertion of calling for “the reality to match the rhetoric,” without acknowledging the Republican Party’s loyalty to Trump, who has called for GOP unity while attacking those in the party that dared to vote in favor of his impeachment after inciting the mob behind the deadly Capitol insurrection.

Watch Cornyn’s remarks below:

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  1. This bullshit, after Trump and his Press Sec didn’t do anything but Fox News for a fuckin’ year?!

    Seriously, Senator Dumbshit. Sit all the way down.

  2. Just wait until Biden’s infrastructure package gets passed, then maybe Cornyn will know who is in charge. Actually, he will probably continue to make stupid insinuations about Biden’s policies, which is all the GQP has these days.

    • Obstruct
    • Lie
    • Complain
    • Delay
    • Divide People
  3. That quote would be on FOX news’ headstone, if such a thing could happen.

  4. You forgot

    • Rinse and repeat

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