Red Meat And Ketchup

Special Counsel Robert Hur exonerated President Joe Biden yesterday reporting that criminal charges were not merited but at the same time, added commentary that gave red meat to the Trump Campaign.

In his report, Hur claimed the president couldn’t remember when his vice presidency ended or when his son, Beau Biden, died. Hur wrote that the president’s memory was “significantly limited” during their interviews and that he had “limited precision and recall.” One reason prosecutors concluded they would have trouble pursuing a case was that a jury might see Biden as an appealing — if forgetful — senior citizen.

Hur wrote, “At trial, 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.” The report also stated, “Based on our direct interactions with and observations of him, he is someone for whom many jurors will want to identify reasonable doubt. It would be difficult to convince a jury that they should convict him — by then a former president well into his eighties — of a serious felony that requires a mental state of willfulness.”

The reason Hur says Biden would be a former president by the time the case came to trial is because he wouldn’t be able to prosecute while Biden is in office. Note how Hur made sure to mention that Biden will be into his 80s, as to make sure voters could hear it. This was political.

Hur was appointed mostly to level the playing field to appease howling MAGAts and Republicans. Nobody seriously believed Joe Biden had broken any laws or intentionally stole classified documents the way Donald Trump had. While Biden had cooperated and turned over documents as soon as they were found, Trump willfully obstructed justice to keep the documents he had stolen. It was Biden’s team who reported that they had documents. Trump repeatedly lied.

But you don’t see Jack Smith issuing a report about Donald Trump’s “mental state of willfulness.” Republicans started using this report within minutes of its release in a manner that questions their memory, as they seem to forget that Donald Trump confused Nikki Haley for Nancy Pelosi and E. Jean Carroll for one of his ex-wives.

Republicans quickly crafted a talking point about Biden being mentally unfit to be president if he’s mentally unfit to be prosecuted for stealing classified documents, thus stating that their guy is mentally fit for stealing classified documents. Meanwhile, their guy is boasting about passing a cognitive test, describing it in a way that doesn’t exist. Donald Trump is bragging that he could pick out a whale from other animals. What is he going to brag about next, that he can wipe his own ass? Here comes the new talking point: “A person unfit to wipe his own ass is unfit for the presidency.”

Unfortunately, President Biden didn’t help himself last night. He held a rare press conference in the White House where he angrily told reporters, “I know what the hell I’m doing.” He was especially angry at Hur for using the death of his son, which he said he remembers every day. The president said, “I don’t need anyone to remind me of when he passed away.”

It is particularly distasteful and disgusting that Hur used the death of Beau Biden to score political points against the president. This needs to be pointed out repeatedly.

Biden was done and walking away from the podium, but then he returned to answer one more question about the war in Israel and confused the leader of Egypt with the leader of Mexico. It wasn’t pretty.

The day before the report was released, Biden twice misstated which German leader he had met with at an event in 2021, saying he spoke with Helmut Kohl, who left office in 1998 and died in 2017, rather than Angela Merkel. Several days earlier he confused the current French president, Emmanuel Macron, with a predecessor, Francois Mitterrand, who died in 1996. If you wanna whatabout this, you can bring up the time Trump called Tim Cook, the CEO of Apple, “Tim Apple.”

Hur’s job was to decide whether or not to prosecute Biden, not add commentary. Hur is a Republican who was appointed as a U.S. Attorney by Donald Trump.

Jim Messina, who ran President Obama’s 2012 campaign, said, “It’s a partisan document. You have got a Republican person here who can’t find anything to charge the president with, so he is taking a few partisan political shots.” Robert Hur successfully made himself the most partisan Special Counsel since Kenneth Starr.

This report is extremely irresponsible. Hur couldn’t settle for using the facts in his decision to not prosecute and felt he had to imply that the president is feeble-minded. Hur is not a doctor and isn’t qualified to diagnose the president’s mental fitness.

To my liberal friends, do not kid yourselves. This is bad. It’s so bad for the Biden Campaign that right after the president’s press conference, while CNN was talking about the memory issue, MSNBC was talking about the Supreme Court.

In regards to the investigation of possessing classified documents, President Biden said, “This matter is now closed.” But in the case of his mental fitness, Thanks to Robert Hur, it’s wide open.

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