“That is not the judgment of the press.” Those words from President Joe Biden were a telling moment after a reporter noted that there is widespread concern that he is mentally diminished. Biden’s cranky response was overshadowed by his confusion on other points during the press conference, including mixing up the presidents of Egypt and Mexico. However, it captured the sense of license and expectation of the Biden White House that the press is supposed to toe the line, as it has for three years.
In the disastrous press conference, CNN correspondent MJ Lee reminded Biden that he had urged Americans to “watch me” when he was confronted over his age: “Many [of the] American people have been watching, and they have expressed concerns about your age.”
The President angrily responded: “That is your judgment!. That is your judgment! That is not the judgment of the press.”
The next day, many in the media came to Biden’s defense and attacked the Special Counsel report which detailed his “diminished faculties.” Others cleaned up the remark about the press. Biden clearly stated “That is your judgment! That is your judgment. That is not the judgment of the press.”
NBC did not include the line in articles on the press conference despite showing it on the live coverage. Roll Call actually edited the President’s remarks to insert “for” in the key line: “That is not the judgment [for] the press.” That changed the line from questioning the right of the press to make such judgments to telling a reporter what the press view should be. Even if it was a Freudian slip, it was a telling slip. Other media inserted or suggested “public” rather than the press in the line.
The obvious exasperation of the President reflects years of a passive, enabling media that shielded Biden from difficult questions on various scandals, including the corruption scandal.
What was striking, however, was the degree to which President Biden and his staff spent this week putting out clearly false statements. In an administration that has pushed for the censorship of citizens accused of disinformation, misinformation, and malinformation, the President openly lied about his conduct and the report.
President Biden, for example, stated that the Special Counsel report found that he did not willfully retain material. It found the opposite . . . repeatedly.
He stated that he did not disclose classified material to his ghostwriter. Special Counsel Hur found precisely the opposite.
Biden stated that the material was not highly classified with “that red stuff…around the corners.” In fact, Hur found that the material was “highly sensitive,” including an Afghanistan-related memo from the National Security Adviser to President Barack Obama in 2009 marked “TOP SECRET/SCI” (Sensitive Compartmented Information).
Biden stated that all of the material was kept in locked or lockable filing cabinets. That was a lie. As the pictures vividly demonstrated, Hur found material in unlocked areas and virtually spilling out of torn boxes in his garage.
What is notable is that Biden works almost entirely off teleprompters, reading statements clearly crafted by his staff. That would indicate that some of these comments were promulgated by staff.
Even in the press conference on Friday, Ian Sams, spokesman for the White House Counsel’s Office ran into a skeptical reporter in the form of Jon Decker, the White House correspondent for Gray Television. Decker is the former head of the White House Correspondents Association and one of my former students. Decker is the gold standard for reporters and has always been objective, tough, and fair. His approach has not changed from the Trump to the Biden Administration.
Decker challenged Sam on coming to the podium to address the President’s statements and proceeding to make a false claim that this is the first Special Counsel to end his investigation without charges.
So why would the White House risk looking like it is going full “Baghdad Bob” in denying readily observable facts? Because this is no real risk.
The reason was evident the day after the report. While usually supportive outlets had to acknowledge the President’s false claims, media figures from MSNBC and CNN quickly fell into line and launched a full attack on Hur, often repeating identical words used by the White House about his observations being “gratuitous.” The problem is Hur, not a President who not only appeared confused in the press conference but openly lied about various established facts.
We have previously written how the level of advocacy and bias in the press has created a danger of a de facto state media in the United States. It is possible to have such a system by consent rather than coercion. The Biden White House has become more open in its marching orders to media, including a letter drafted by the Biden White House Legal Counsel’s Office calling for major media to “ramp up their scrutiny” of House Republicans.
The Decker-Sams exchange is key in this regard. I have previously noted that Sams is now actively managing a media campaign to blunt investigations into the President’s conduct and the alleged corruption by his family. As Decker noted, he is not a lawyer but has used that office to put an official imprimatur on these false statements. That could prove precarious in the weeks to come as the House explores impeachment allegations against the President. The use of White House staff for such purposes has been cited in past impeachment articles.
Let’s have a discussion about the possible/probable setting of the stage for a 25th Amendment case being brought against FJB thus elevating Kamala Harris to the presidency. Having thus established their street cred, first woman, first PoC, could they then maneuver her out because she is not electable in favor of a Michelle Obama candidacy thus giving 8 more years of BHO??
A nightmare of apocalyptic proportions!!!
The key questions right now are political.
This is about the democratic party – not Joe Biden.
What is the democratic party going to do ?
This is not about republicans.
Republicans have no control of this.
This election is moving towards disaster for the democratic party.
No amount of spin,
censorship,
or election fraud can cover this up.
Not only are democrats near certain to lose the WH to Trump in november, but the down ballot risks are enormous.
I would note that Hur did NOT find that Biden had just recently become incompetent.
But that Biden was showing significant signs of serious mental decline in 2017 – 3 years BEFORE the 2020 election.
This is damning not just to Biden, but to the entire democratic party. It is not possible that important leaders within the democratic party were not aware of this. Frankly it is not possible that the press has not been aware of this for a long time.
SC Hur just said that Biden’s mental incapacity was hidden from voters in 2020.
One of the problems that Democrats have is that all of their defenses and all of their attacks are intrisically intertwined in ways that undermining one undermines them all.
If VP Biden can mishandle classified documents president Trump certainty can posses them.
If voters were lied to about the Biden family corrution, and lied to about Biden’s competence, why are we to beleive they are not being lied to about election fraud ?
Democrats are the little boy who cried wolf.
We just witnessed the evisceration of this stupid 14th amendment legal nonsense at the supreme court.
The justices mercilously dismembered this in a dozen different ways.
Every single justice not merely treated this argument with contempt, but eviscertated it in a new and compelling way that had NOT been made public before. ALL the justices not only made fools of the CO attorneys, but every single legal scholar that tried to advance this garbage.
in two hours the justices brutally eviscerated days and days of garbage media erudition.
They exposed the incredible bias of the media and the left – the fact that shallow claims that do not hold up to scrutiny get presented as truth and protected from criticism collapse when confronted with obvious criticism.
The effect of all of this is damning.
Why should we beleive those who have lied about Biden’s competence form nearly a decade ?
Why should we beleive those who have lied about J6 ?
Why should we beleive those who have lied about the Biden clan corruption ?
Why should we beleive those who have lied about the collusion delusion ?
Why should we beleive those who have lied about the Border ?
Why should we beleive those who have lied about the 14th amendment ?
Why should we beleive those who have lied about Covid ?
Why should these people be beleive these people about
Trump, Democracy, election fraud, energy policy, Global Warming, china, ukraine, russia, the mideast.
Yesterday Tucker Carlson’s interview of Putin was aired.
You can hate Putin, But it is clear that Putin is willing to make peace in Ukraine, and that he has been willing to do so for 2 years.
That hundreds of thousands or people are dying in Ukraine because Joe Biden does not want peace.
Well said.
The Carlson interview was very interesting.
I have only seen parts of it. Regardless, it is something that should not have required Tucker to have happen.
We should always give world leaders – even ones we oppose the oportunity to tell us their thoughts – whatever they are.
My impression of Putin is very negative – I still want to know what he says. how he thinks.
I do not think getting a peace deal with Putin will be nearly as easy as Putin presented.
But it is inarguably possible, and we should all know what the alternative to spending a 100 billion more to prop up Ukraine might be.
Ukraine can not win the war. But Russia is a failing state and It is likely that Ukraine will get everything it wants eventually.
Regardless. it is self evident that the impediment to peace negotiations has been Biden and Borris Johson
John Say ended an excellent summary of life under the Soviet Democrats’ version of reality with this:
But it is clear that Putin is willing to make peace in Ukraine:
Never mind Americans believing Putin just wants peace: why should the Ukrainians believes Putin just wants peace?
They should believe Putin wants peace after TWO invasions any more than they should have believed American assurances that it was in our national interest to come to their defense if they would just surrender their deterrent nukes against Russia to satisfy that American national interest.
You can argue that Ukraine political corruption is almost as bad as American political corruption – and some of that corruption is both Ukrainian and American – but it’s a long stretch to make a case that Ukraine should trust Putin claims he wants peace. Any more than they’ll ever trust another American politician wanting something in exchange for a promise to defend, to protect, etc.
After the desertion of Afghanistan, the funding and empowerment of Iran as it slaughters Americans for years, and then the desertion of Ukraine – TWICE – after we got them to give up those deterrent nukes (and fought beside us every day we were in Afghanistan and Iraq), it would appear that promises from Putin are no more trustworthy than promises from America when they have something we want.
Biden vowed to treat government officials with ‘dignity and respect’ but slams DOJ for Hur report
“Mr. Biden would likely present himself to a jury, as he did during our interview of him, as a sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory,” Hur wrote. The White House responded by calling the report “politically motivated.”
https://justthenews.com/government/white-house/holdbiden-promised-restore-faith-american-institutions-turned-doj-after-hur
What if Hur, being a typical inside guy, thought that he would absolve Biden of any criminal exposure but then add in the lines about Biden’s mental state as cover for himself. Then Hur thought that Garland would redact his lines about Biden’s mental state therefore protecting him from the Dem and media machine that are attacking him now. Of course this being the Biden team Garland, through incompetence, didn’t redact the lines and here we are.
So Hur gets to let Biden off the legal hook while covering himself by saying that Biden is a mental wreck etc etc. Then when Garland redacts the lines they don’t get to the public until after the election…if ever.
We sometimes think that the Biden team is playing 3D chess, but they are more likely just being incompetent as they are with the economy, the border, foreign policy and Biden’s PR.
hullbobby, this was just too good to pass up in response to your 3D comment. Below is a Trump quote…allegedly:
“No one is more badehkefkehr than me,” Trump said, according to court documents. “It’s because I’m the prime minister of [inadaudible mumbling] and the Dunk Twins. You know, I met them in Egypt when I was looking for a good taco. Not a joke, believe me. Everyone says so, Jack. End of quote. Repeat the line.”
https://babylonbee.com/news/4d-chess-trump-forces-judge-to-grant-full-immunity-after-he-speaks-gibberish-and-shakes-hands-with-air
I am attaching two links to reports/coverage on Biden’s attorneys having retrieved nine boxes of documents from the Penn State office. Read media site “factcheck.org” first and pay close attention to the timelines, especially starting at “Nov. 2.”
Then, read the cbs summary, and pay particular attention to paragraph 3?, starting with “Debra Steidel Wall….”
hmm.
https://www.factcheck.org/2023/01/timeline-of-bidens-classified-documents/
thankshttps://www.cbsnews.com/news/national-archives-retrieved-nine-boxes-biden-records-patrick-moore-boston-office/
(^^^remove the word, “thanks” from beginning of link. sorry)
should be:
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/national-archives-retrieved-nine-boxes-biden-records-patrick-moore-boston-office/
Politicians play word games so often it is difficult to distinguish between what they say is misinformation, deflection, distraction or simply a lie.
Well, the cat is out of the bag. The jig is up. The quiet part has been said out loud.
Now we watch the Biden admin try to spin this one away. Something we all knew prior to, but now the DOJ has confirmed it.
This is going to hang over Biden’s campaign no matter how hard MSM and in this case Alternative Reality Media really applies, h/t GEB.
Say it loud, say it proud, Joe Biden is mentally incompetent to be president. Everytime one of our leftist friends try to deflect, say it again.
And that Joe Biden sees dead people.
Margot and HullBobby asked the elephant in the room question: Who is actually running the WH and the country?
Based off my past interactions with the government, they tend to rule by committee. No one ever is then truly held accountable. It just was a, we just came to a decision. And generally it is a train wreck.
In short, no one is really in charge. They are just bumbling along. Makes a lot of sense to me and explains why the country is such a mess.
I know, it’s like even Putin is asking the same question and the answer is obvious: the Politburo (a.k.a. the Deep State, a k.a. the Swamp, a.k.a. Obama the puppetmaster) is running the country.
I’m actually glad that Turley picked up, and chose to comment, on this. It would seem Biden not only believes he wholly owns the media charged with dispensing the official state narrative, but also that this reporter had willfully disregarded, violated, the rules of the game to go rogue. And in choosing to voice his displeasure so vociferously, I am left to wonder, must we now concern ourselves with her safety? Or her continued employment? This is stuff, in my opinion, right out of the communist playbook. Who do these people believe they are, that they can bully hundreds of freedom-loving millions? Seriously, in America?
How corrupt is the MSM? How deep is the ocean? How high is the sky?
Even the ocean has a bottom, the media corruption has no limit.
And the plot sickens as if we were watching the denouement of a very bad soap opera. It couldn’t get much tackier and all the while 250+ years of American presence in the world is diminished as the assiduous work of so many fellow travelers have come to fruition before our eyes. I ask; Is there anything within the bonds of our constitution to be done to reverse this? Are there true Americans willing to pledge their fortunes and their sacred honors to achieve this???
A better discussion from someone who’s read the entire report: https://www.emptywheel.net/2024/02/09/robert-hurs-box-checking/
Is Biden devious/duplicitous enough to feign exaggerated “addled” memory and thoughts/speech during questioning (so as to lead Hur to conclude that any charges would be a waste of time because fact-finders would be sympathetic to the elderly gentleman)– –and also to avoid honest answers to Hur’s questions?
I don’t trust Biden farther than I could throw him.
(note my adjective, “exaggerated”)
That is my husband’s opinion all along but I do think they have over-played this if that is what they are about. I doubt it because obama wouldn’t have let it get this far as just a tool to manipulate the vox populi. I don’t doubt that joe’s nasty ability to achieve his goals through whatever means possible was the method of his becoming president but his deterioration, as an act, has shown far more problems than being found out as a lying thief and thug. I do believe they are stuck with a mean-spirited, doddering old coot with his finger on the buttons of our lives.
Lin, maybe Biden’s handlers didn’t give him his meds on purpose so that he wouldn’t remember material facts.
Here’s what Professor Turley calls bias in the media after the release of Hur’s special counsel report:
CNN: “Questions about Biden’s age are getting louder; Biden’s allies can’t agree how to combat questions about his age & memory.”
“Fact check: Biden makes three false claims about his handling of classified information”
“David Axelrod: Why the Special Counsel report was so damaging for Biden.”
Washington Post lead article: “Democratic worries grow over claims about Biden’s memory lapses”
Op-ed: “Forget about a second term. Is Biden fit to be president right now?”
Let’s be honest, Professor. Biden & Trump are both showing mental decline. Trump’s reaction to the Supreme Court’s hearing on the 14th amendment disqualification?
“I think it was an insurrection caused by Nancy Pelosi.” (Well, at least he didn’t say it was Nikki Haley)
Trump on the 2024 election:
“We have to win in November or we’re not going to have Pennsylvania. They’ll change the name. They’re going to change the name of Pennsylvania.”
The American public overwhelmingly doesn’t want their choices to be Biden & Trump when they go to the polls in November, JT.
All the press ass covering yesterday is only evidence of ass covering.
Trump gave a presser after SCOTUS arguments. Split screen that with Biden’s surprise presser. Play them together with no sound.
That’s what the voters are seeing
Play them with sound, and you’ll find that Biden’s much more informed than Trump is.
Play them with the sound and it is clear Biden is mentally incompetent to be president.
Nonsense.
Play them with the sound and it is clear Biden is mentally incompetent to be president.
Another cowardly Anonymous Soviet Democrat posted as he was told:
Play them with sound, and you’ll find that Biden’s much more informed than Trump is.
When the Soviet Democrats and their Marxist Useful Idiots have nothing else to defend The Big Guy with, there’s always the “Please don’t believe your lying eyes” line to throw against the wall and see if it sticks.
Binden? The Biden that talks to dead world leaders? and keeps repeating the his Son Beu, retrurned to the United States in a flag drapped coffin? That well informed Biden?
Another Cowardly Anonymous Soviet Democrat apparatchik posted: Let’s be honest, Professor. Biden & Trump are both showing mental decline.
Let’s be honest… this cowardly anonymous Soviet Democrat is screaming “Don’t believe your lying eyes about Bribery Biden, The Big Guy!” because the only reason the coward was dispatched here to post his schtick is to desperately attempt to convince people The Big Guy hasn’t been clearly demented for several years now. Trump was eager to submit to a mental cognition test when the Soviet Democrats and their Marxist Mainstream Media claimed he was in mental decline. While they were howling for his removal under the 24th Amendment at the same time.
Trump passed – easily. And now we watch the Anonymous cowards, the Soviet Democrats, and their Mainstream Media lackies suddenly forget about demanding presidents undergo mental fitness testing. And they now have no further interest in demanding the removal of presidents under the 24th Amendment.
No demands from the Marxist Media and their cowardly anonymous shills for cognitive testing for Biden? No, instead they send lackeys here to claim that Trump’s speech patterns prove he’s demented. Because, that’s all they have.
Scrabbling through his meager collection of quotes, he forgot to include Obama telling the media he had visited 53 states… and had a few more to go. The question is: why did this anonymous Soviet Democrat coward attempt to present as though The Magical Marxist Brown Clown never racked up his own record of inarticulate and nonsensical statements?
Did I missed the TV segment of Nancy Pelosi’s rant in front of the Press that “no one is above the law” speach?
The White House handlers big mistake was NOT putting Jo-Jo back in the basement.
So because the president is addled now he is excused from all his offenses previous to becoming addled. Seems to me the real question legally would become “when did the president become addled” and when did everyone around hm know that.
Was it when he was first starting his senate career (my position) or when he conducted the senate hearings on Justice Thomas (his performance there was intermittently addled), when he was VP ( seemed to be 3/4 addled) or when he became president (most objective individuals knew he was totally addled at that time)
Trump flaunted his neuro-psych exams publicly which were normal but we have never seen Biden’s. I firmly believe he could not do serial sevens backword. And he would fail “who is the President”.
The major legal question is all those who have perpetrated this fraud on the American people and what should be their punishment. That man cannot even give a coherent sentence much less wright executive orders that deconstructs the American economy or betrays Israel and fostered the growth in power of IRAN with billions of American Dollars. Those objectives come straight from the Obama VIRTUAL White House.
Time to bring out the pitchforks or at least start to sharpen them. The power structure that protects this president is truly going to have to be pried out of power. It might not be pretty.
“The major legal question is all those who have perpetrated this fraud “
Someone needs to be punished. Put Biden in a Medicaid nursing home and charge his wife. 🙂
If there were a ‘Joseph Goebels Award for Propaganda’, Ian Sams could never be challenged. Not even ‘The Binder’ comes close, and she must be his protege.
The left keeps puking up the same talking points.
Trump is worse because he refused to cooperate.
I’ll take off the table the fact Trump declassified all the documents. Stay with just the facts.
If thats the difference, the only thing the leftist cabal has is obstruction of Justice.
So now explain why there are 3 dozen charges instead of one.
It’s not a fact that Trump declassified all the documents. On the contrary, all of his lawyers’ and Judge Cannon’s statements/actions with respect to the classified material indicate that it’s still classified.
Trump refused to return all of the documents after being asked. He refused to return all of the documents after being subpoenaed. He had Nauta move the documents after being subpoenaed. The FBI had to get a warrant to search for the missing docs. Trump had Nauta and de Oliveira attempt to erase security tapes. He engaged in obstruction. He wasn’t willing to be interviewed about it.
Biden returned the documents he was aware of, let the FBI search all premises without a warrant, everything was returned, he sat for a voluntary interview. He cooperated, no obstruction.
In my opinion, the biggest difference is that the documents retained by President Biden date back to when was a senator. Has anyone asked why he had those? How did he remove them? No one noticed a senator leaving with secret/sensitive documents he had no right to posses outside a secure area?
Another Anonymous Soviet Democrat Coward was sent here to desperately attempt to deflect with a “BBBBUUUTTTT… MUH TRUMP!” moment:
Biden returned the documents he was aware of, let the FBI search all premises without a warrant, everything was returned, he sat for a voluntary interview. He cooperated, no obstruction.
These are the same anonymous Soviet Democrat cowards that spent four years assuring us that the Clinton/Obama/Biden “Russia Dossier” was actually verified US intelligence agency evidence Trump was a Russian stooge. Same cowardly anonymous liars that assured us the laptop belonging to The Bagman Formerly Known As The Crackhead Kid was merely ‘Russian election disinformation’.
Biden didn’t cooperate with the FBI. What happened is the FBI bent the knee and once again did what the Soviet Democrats told them to do.
No, just like they did with Clinton, the FBI cooperated with The Big Guy. The highest level of secure documents were allowed to sit unsecured in Joe’s Garage, the Chicom/Biden shared offices, etc while they gave The Big Guy time to try and sort things out, to hide and destroy evidence.
The DoJ was bugling about Trump having classified documents right before that election – while carefully hiding the fact they knew Bribery Biden had classified documents scattered all over the place. Once the election was safely over, THEN they announced Biden had documents. Oh…. and they were going to appoint a safe and reliable special prosecutor. One of those “no reasonable prosecutor would indict Hillary Clinton” prosecutors of the James Comey type.
How magnanimous that the FBI cooperated with Biden by not getting a warrant as they did with Trump. Repeatedly coming up with more classified information after The Big Guy claimed he had turned over everything – and still no warrant? Just keep voluntarily cooperating with The Big Guy and his teams of lawyers running around trying to clean up his mess. Just like the same FBI cleaned up Biden’s laptop mess by hiding it and telling social media to censor news about it?
How about staging a public raid on Biden’s multiple classified document locations with heavily armed FBI SWAT teams after new classified information kept turning up? Nah – that’s for Republican presidents, congressmen, their lawyers, etc.
(BTW, why 30 agents armed to the teeth to publicly raid Mar-a-lago? They expected a pitched gun battle with the Secret Service close protection detail that was at Mar-a-lago 24/7? Or maybe it was more police state fascism public political theater.)
“Trust The Big Guy” was the word… just like the FBI trusted Clinton to secure the materials covered by the subpoena.
Just like the FBI trusted Clinton to have her lawyers go through her material and decide for themselves what was classified and what was not – rather than the FBI doing that to ensure Clinton didn’t destroy classified material they didn’t want anybody to know she kept. Which she promptly did.
Bribery Biden, The Big Guy, had classified documents he wasn’t allowed to lawfully have for FORTY years. Is this anonymous coward going to claim The Big Guy’s dementia extends that far back. Never noticed them not even once while moving around things?
How many times did did Biden’s FBI allow his staff – who DIDN’T have security clearances – return to clean up, hide, destroy, move classified material he wasn’t supposed to have? Three times? Four?
And we’re supposed to pretend we haven’t seen this from the FBI and prosecutors repeatedly over the last eight years… Not just who gets raided, but who gets a pass on prosecution with the “No reasonable ” excuse.
This country regularly puts criminals well into their senior years and into mental decline on trail for sex crimes, violent crimes, etc that they committed years previously when they were mentally competent. But the Big Guy is supposedly so mentally incompetent that he can’t stand trial once he leaves office – but he’s mentally competent to remain president with control of the nuclear football.
So I took that declassification subject out, specifially to not get bogged down by a a back and forth.
You of course focus on that, rather than debate the why there is more that just an obstruction charge.
Because a Senator or VP has no power to posses the documents Biden Possessed.
Heel dogies. Heel.
Many “baby boomers” today have aging parents with declining cognitive faculties. One of the ironic symptoms of this is that the affected person is unable to recognize her or his own disability and may aggressively object to anyone suggesting a diminished mental state. As David Axelrod, a former strategist for the Obama-Biden campaign, told Anderson Cooper the other night, “[T]he central meme that is hurting the president is this issue of age. It’s a big barrier.” If there is a silver lining in this dark cloud, it’s that Biden’s mental illness seems to be bringing the electorate together in a way that will return power to the people who, hopefully, will rectify this sad situation for our nation. This week, at the same time that President Putin of Russia was telling Tucker Carlson that Joe Biden was not really in charge of the United States, we, the people of the United States, were learning the truth of this statement by the Russian president. We still may love our aging parents despite their infirmities and harsh outbursts but, realistically, we can no longer give them the keys to the family car or the nuclear football.
Many “baby boomers” today have aging parents with declining cognitive faculties.
^^^This^^^
I experienced this with my mother and MIL
The both had the Vocabulary of a BooK Editor. But we watched as they struggled to find the word ‘ball’ in their inventory of words.
Mom was talking a coach. What coach I asked?. The one for. . . the game with the. . . ah and the guys is shorts, the floor.(then disgust and anger.
This from a person that did the NYT crossword in ink. At least for my entire life that is all I ever saw.
What the left is forced to do, as they always do, is respond as if facts, are somehow political dirty tricks.
Either Jill and Left are evil and literally committing elder abuse. Or they are terrified of taking Dad’s car keys from him. But if they don’t is life, and the lives of lots others will suffer.
This is not a political debate
“…is this issue of age. It’s a big barrier….”
This is one of the most irritating bits of deflection I face in this college town. People cannot say that he suffers dementia because then I would ask when it became apparent to them. It was pretty obvious in February 2020 I would say, based on experience with family members who had the car battery removed.
This despiccable talk about suddenly he is too “old” is the worst mis-, dis-, malinformation of the past four years.
It’s not age. My best friend died with dementia at age 60. I’m 88 and can still argue cases in court. Some have it. Some don’t. Obviously, Joe has it. When he first developed it is open to debate. I’m with GEB that it started early in his career.
With respect to Hur’s decision whether to file criminal charges against Biden, there was only one issue on the plate: ” . . . *knowingly* removes such documents or materials without authority and with the *intent* to retain such documents or materials . . .” (from the U.S. Code)
Hur concluded that because Biden is probably addled, Hur could not prove “knowingly” or “intent.” Therefore, Biden is excluded from prosecution.
And from being president.