Special Counsel Robert Hur predictably concluded that President Joe Biden’s handling of classified documents when he was a senator and vice president do not warrant criminal charges.
But unfortunately for the White House, Hur’s recommendations to the Justice Department quickly became background noise. Instead, his unsparing descriptions of the commander-in-chief took center stage.
None of Hur’s characterizations should surprise anyone who has watched Joe Biden for more than forty-five seconds over the last three and a half years. It’s not like the American people have had only one opportunity to catch Biden seeing dead people. There was a second and third showing.
But it isn’t the reporting of Joe’s decline that comes as a surprise, so much as that Hur had the temerity to do so.
The line that first caught the attention of the media was the special counsel’s description of Joe as “a sympathetic, well meaning, elderly man with a poor memory.” Upon further reading, that isn’t even the worst of it.
At one point, the report excuses Biden’s disclosure of national defense information to Mark Zwonitzer, the ghostwriter of his memoir, because of his “diminished faculties and faulty memory.” Zwonitzer’s interviews with Biden from 2017 reportedly highlighted that Biden’s memory was “significantly limited.”
It stands to reason that six years later in his meeting with Hur, the president’s memory had diminished even further.
“He did not remember when he was vice president, forgetting on the first day of the interview when his term ended (‘if it was 2013 — when did I stop being Vice President?’), and forgetting on the second day of the interview when his term began (‘in 2009, am I still Vice President?’),” the report states.
Biden’s leal servants in the press often describe these uncomfortable moments as “gaffes” or “mix-ups” — but Hur does not sugarcoat the severity of Joe’s decline.
In what might be the saddest line, Hur notes that the president “did not remember, even within several years, when his son Beau died.”
The Hur report lists several other examples of Joe’s poor memory, but no sane person should need more proof. In fact, the Democrats by continuing to ignore the fact that Joe Biden is no longer fit to serve are showcasing their own cruelty.
The special counsel is using Joe Biden’s faulty memory and cognitive decline as his “get-out-of-jail-free” card. The Democratic Party and American voters should use it as Biden’s “get-out-of-office” card.
