An astonishing new accusation has been leveled by a senator from the Republican party concerning the purported cognitive impairment that occurred under the presidency of Joe Biden.

The senator claims that during his time as president, Biden would sometimes lock himself in a room within the White House because he was confused, The Daily Mail reported.

This comes after four solid years of concern by those on the right that Biden was simply being used as a figure head, and others were running the country from inside the White House.

From the Senator

Republican Senator Josh Hawley of Missouri made his surprising assertion on Friday's "Hannity" program, referencing an anonymous Secret Service informant whom Hawley said was working for Biden.

"He [Secret Service member] told me that Biden used to get lost in his closet in the mornings in the White House," Hawley said.

"I mean, the guy literally stumbling around in the White House residence couldn't find his way out of his own closet. The president of the United States. I mean, this is outrageous. We were lied to."

Hawley says he was informed of the allegations while conducting an investigation into the July attempted assassination of Trump at a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.

The Butler incident

Corey Comperatore was shot and killed, and a bullet made a near miss, hitting then-candidate Trump's ear.

According to Hawley at the time, "one of the worst constitutional crises of our country's history" is unfolding around the Biden administration's use of an autopen to sign executive orders.

"We need to find out who actually signed off, so to speak, on all those autopen signatures and all of those pardons and all of those clemencies."

"It’s a rogue’s gallery of crooks and criminals and terrible people, rapists and others, I mean who actually was doing that, we know it wasn’t Biden, he didn’t know anything about it. "we’ve got to figure out who was actually in charge cos it sure as heck wasn’t Joe Biden."

Media at fault

Meanwhile, Hawley accused the left-wing media of ignoring Biden's public displays of mental and physical instability and of not doing enough to hold the president or his administration accountable.

The announcement follows the release of a book detailing the apparent efforts made by Biden's inner circle to conceal his shortcomings during his presidency, written by CNN’s Jake Tapper and Axios reporter Alex Thompson.

"The press has a huge role in this… They're supposed to report the truth," Hawley said. "It's what you do every night. It is not what the liberal media did though.

"They sold this country out for years and they did it for power and they need to be held accountable as well."