Rep. Seth Moulton (D-MA) battled Fox News host Martha MacCallum for focusing on former President Joe Biden's mental fitness while ignoring President Donald Trump's incompetence.
During a Wednesday interview on Fox News, MacCallum suggested Moulton should have called on Biden to step down while he was president because of the military's withdrawal from Afghanistan.
"I was a critic of the Afghanistan withdrawal, but Trump was the one who made the deal with the Taliban, negotiating with terrorists to actually put us on an accelerated timeline to do that," Moulton said. "The evidence is that he would have pulled out even sooner than Biden."
"What I do know is that Trump's cabinet, several members of his cabinet, had very real discussions about whether he was qualified to be president, about invoking the amendment to say we should take the presidential powers away from him when he was doing the shenanigans around January 6th," the lawmaker continued.
"But doesn't that seem kind of laughable at this point?" MacCallum asserted, steering the conversation back to Biden's health.
"I think it's a good question why Trump's cabinet convened those discussions," Moulton said. "The people who saw [Biden] on a much more regular basis, his own cabinet officials never had that discussion, and yet Trump's cabinet did."
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"So I don't understand why you're defending Trump when his cabinet was literally having a discussion about taking the presidential powers away from him, and yet Biden's cabinet, who had, who saw him every day, didn't have that discussion," he added. "Well, actually, if you don't follow the Constitution, you're pretty incapable because you're supposed to actually uphold the oath that you swore to protect and defend the Constitution."
"So if you're going to defend January 6th, go ahead, go to the grave defending January 6th."
"That's your opinion," MacCallum quipped.
"So look, I was honest about what I thought about Biden," Moulton remarked. "So I'm willing to have this debate with you. But if you can't be honest about what Trump's own cabinet was saying about him, then we can't have an honest debate."
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