Colleagues worry Dianne Feinstein is mentally unfit to serve: Report
Colleagues of US Democratic Dianne Feinstein have anonymously raised concerns about her memory and questioned if she is mentally fit to serve in the Senate, according to a report.
The San Francisco Chronicle on Thursday -- citing four senators, three of whom are Democrats, as well as three former Feinstein staffers and a House Democrat from California – reported that Feinstein’s memory is deteriorating and questioned if she could still do her job without significant staff assistance.
The report cited a California Democrat in Congress who recently engaged in an extended conversation with Feinstein, a member of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, they prepared for a rigorous policy discussion.
Instead, the lawmaker claimed, they had to reintroduce themselves to Feinstein, who is the oldest sitting US senator, several times during an interaction that lasted several hours.
The lawmaker said Feinstein, 88, repeated the same small-talk questions, instead of delving into policy, with no apparent recognition the two had already had a similar conversation.
The member of Congress, who spoke to the newspaper on condition, raised concerns with colleagues to see if some kind of intervention to persuade Feinstein to retire was possible.
'Biden is in the same state'
Commenting on the report, American journalist and political commentator Don DeBar, said, “Biden is in the same state - and I don't mean California.”
“And he has the so-called ‘nuclear football,’ along with a completely free hand in war-making, thanks to a Congress full of members who are either as demented as he and Feinstein, or are making outright psychotic calls for war with Russia,” he added.
Feinstein defends record
In response to the report, Feinstein on Friday pushed back and attempted to defend her record.
In a statement, she said that the “real question is whether I’m still an effective representative for 40 million Californians, and the record shows that I am.”
“I remain committed to do what I said I would when I was reelected in 2018: fight for Californians, especially on the economy and the key issues for California of water and fire. While I have focused for much of the past year on my husband’s health and ultimate passing, I have remained committed to achieving results and I’d put my record up against anyone’s,” Feinstein added.
Feinstein’s husband, Richard Blum, died earlier this year after a fight with cancer.
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