In what comes as a devastating blow to his bid for re-election, Special Counsel Robert Hur effectively told President Joe Biden he won’t be charged for keeping classified documents because he’s too old and senile.
In his shocking report, Hur writes that Biden “willfully retained and disclosed classified materials,” but that a jury would be sensitive to an “elderly man with a poor memory.” The president “did not remember when he was vice president,” Hur writes, and could not remember “even within several years, when his son Beau died.” What is more, “his memory appeared hazy when describing the Afghanistan debate that was once so important to him.”
Coming on the heels of Biden talking about meeting with dead European leaders, this development is, shall we say, less than ideal.