The evidence and the president himself put his memory squarely at issue. We asked him about his recorded statement, “I just found all the classified stuff downstairs.” He told us that he didn’t remember saying that to his ghostwriter, finding any classified material in his home after his vice presidency, and how classified documents about Afghanistan made their way into his garage.
Robert Hur (under oath)
If you watched Democrats on the House Oversight Committee cross-examine Special Counsel Robert Hur, then you know why Donald Trump locked up the GOP nomination in less than eight weeks. The vast majority of Republicans believe a Democrat alliance has been hiding “an elderly man with a poor memory” from we the people since Joe Biden first ran for president. Seriously, why would Democrats try to discredit a report that exempts their 2024 candidate from criminal prosecution?
Because 86% of Americans think Biden’s “too old to serve a second term” (source: ABC News). Because the electorate sees an “elderly man with a poor memory” every day. Because Dems’ve been running a fit for office scam since 2020; when Biden’s campaign used COVID to limit public appearances, and 51 deep state cronies papered over the very real dirt the New York Post retrieved from Hunter’s laptop. Because he’s roadkill in the polls.
ABC News/Ipsos found Biden’s favorability at only 33%, Rasmussen has him 8 points behind Trump, and Gallup found only 38% of Whites, 47% of Latinos, and 66% of Blacks now lean Democrat. Biden’s dropped 3 points with Whites, 18 points with Latinos, and 21 points with Blacks since 2020 because voters are frightened by his failing memory – and not too keen on his positions on crime, energy and immigration.
Trump is a flawed candidate in his own right, but his behavior angers voters (not the same as fear). Democrats know this and that they’re stuck with Biden. However, because their cover-up worked in 2020, they’re willing to defend their senile incumbent. This year’s fit for office campaign began at the White House.
Three days before Hur’s report went public, White House attorneys wrote Hur: “We request that you revisit your descriptions of President Biden’s memory and revise them so that they are stated in a manner that is within the bounds of your expertise and remit” (source: New York Post). That’s legalese for cover up the President’s most embarrassing moments and let’s just call it professionalism. Hur stood his ground, and AG Garland released the report as written.
The White House then had the President react to the “elderly man with a poor memory” damage by blaming his high office (“My memory is fine, I was in the middle of handling an international crisis”) and defend not not knowing the year of son Beau’s death with faux outrage (“How in the hell dare he raise that? Frankly, when I was asked the question, I thought to myself it wasn’t any of their damn business”). He doubled down later at a Democrat retreat: “You think I would f- -king forget the day my son died?” (Yes, I do)
The transcript of Hur’s report shows the President himself brought up Beau’s death, when his confusion forced his lawyers to provide the date (May 30, 2015). That moment was highlighted in the report as an example of Biden’s memory lapses, which led the Special Counsel to conclude prosecuting “an elderly man with a poor memory” was a fool’s errand – a conclusion most DOJ targets would welcome.
But President Biden is not most of us. He wants to eliminate fossil fuels and open the US-Mexican border with the stroke of a pen. This is why Adam Schiff (D-CA) impugned Hur’s intent in person and later on CNN: “This was deliberate. It was as if Hur decided, ‘There’s not enough evidence to prosecute him. So, I’m going to politically slime him instead’ (in) a subjective, generalized — essentially political — assessment that is fodder during a campaign year.”
Too bad for Schiff, CNN’s Jake Tapper was in a fact-checking mood: “The basic argument you’re making is, by calling President Biden [an] elderly man with a poor memory, that’s political. What part of that construct is inaccurate? I just think [Hur] felt a special obligation to explain why he wasn’t going to prosecute somebody that had actually broken the law.”
Exactly what Rep. Darrel Issa (R-CA) concluded: “You did not reach an idea that he had committed no wrong, you reached a conclusion that you would not prevail at trial and therefore did not take it forward.” Hur replied, “Correct, congressman.” And Hur also corrected Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-CA), “We did not exonerate the President.” Case closed – which should thrill Dems, because…
“Our investigation uncovered evidence that President Biden willfully retained and disclosed classified materials after his vice presidency when he was a private citizen. These materials included (1) marked classified documents about military and foreign policy in Afghanistan, and (2) notebooks containing Mr. Biden’s handwritten entries about issues of national security and foreign policy implicating sensitive intelligence sources and methods” (source: Special Counsel’s Report).
Even worse, Biden disclosed “classified” and “sensitive intelligence” to his ghostwriter on three separate occasions “for posterity’s sake” and because “they were mine” (source: Town Hall). Got that? Joe Biden thinks he’s so historically consequential that he’s above the law, meaning in 2024’s character debate, he’s just as bad as the rival he smears ad nauseam.