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in deciding not to charge him for his handling of classified documents, once again placing the president’s age at the center of partisan discourse. Hur noted that Biden appeared to forget key events from his vice presidency in a 2023 interview.
Biden defended himself in a Thursday night press conference, saying the interview took place while he was preoccupied with the onset of the war in Gaza. Biden took particular issue with Hur’s claim that he forgot the year his son died, saying, “I don’t need anyone, anyone, to remind me when he passed away.”Despite Biden’s insistence on his mental ability, many op-eds from conservative voices questioned whether Biden was mentally fit to be president.Jim Geraghty called Biden’s press conference “disastrous” and a “train wreck,” highlighting other pundits who raised concerns about his memory. Slate said, “the case that it’s bad for him is pretty obvious.” However, they wrote, low expectations “could also set Biden up to stride easily over a low bar.” Generally, commentators framed the issue of Biden’s age as an unavoidable political challenge.On the menu today: For the better part of three years now, those of us who follow politics have observed mounting evidence that Joe Biden’s advanced age was becoming a major obstacle to his ability to perform his duties as president. During that time, we’ve been accused of lying and smearing a competent, sharp-minded man with a stutter, and White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre assured us that Biden has so much energy she “can’t even keep up with him.” Yesterday, that happy-talk assessment of Biden’s health, memory, and mental...Well, right on the heels of President Joe Biden referring twice to 2021 interactions with world leaders who were deceased at the time, the Justice Department special prosecutor in charge of investigating Biden’s handling of classified materials went and wrote a report explaining that he is not recommending an indictment of the president because, among other things, Biden would come across to jurors as “a sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory” rather than someone who knowingly violated the law. When the news broke about the special counsel’s hit job — his snide, unwarranted, obviously politically motivated slurs about President Biden’s memory — I found myself thinking about my mother. What year did she die? It turned out that I didn’t know offhand; I knew that it was after I moved from Princeton to CUNY, because I was regularly commuting out to New Jersey to see her, but before the pandemic. I actually had to look into my records to confirm that she died in 2017. Conservatives Are One Chiefs Win Away From Claiming Taylor Swift Actually Is Joe Biden and That’s Why You’ve Never Seen Them in the Same Place
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