Democrats developing defenses to damning Robert Hur report on Biden’s mental state

[mystery-ak]

Democrats developing defenses to damning Robert Hur report on Biden’s mental state
By
Emily Jacobs
and
Cami Mondeaux
February 9, 2024 2:50 pm

Congressional Democrats are being forced to reckon with revived concerns about President Joe Biden’s age and acuity after being accused of severe memory lapses in special counsel Robert Hur’s report on his handling of classified materials.

Hur’s report included examples of the president’s memory lapses during his interview with investigators, which were featured while explaining the rationale for not prosecuting Biden. The report stated that the president could not remember, “even within several years,” when his son Beau Biden died, among other important dates.

“Biden’s memory was significantly limited, both during his recorded interview with the ghostwriter in 2017 and in his interview with our officer in 2023,” Hur wrote.

Democrats have tried various ways to defend Biden in the aftermath of the report, challenging Hur’s ability to assess a president’s mental state and questioning his political motivations.

“I suspect that that comment was a gratuitous and unnecessary remark, perhaps going to the question of intent,” Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) told reporters on Thursday of Hur’s comments on Biden’s mental state. “I don’t know what they meant by it, but it’s certainly no crime being a well-meaning, elderly man.”

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[bigheadfred]

I don’t know where they are claiming their medical expertise is, but the American people can judge pretty clearly that Joe Biden has no issues with memory,” he said.   

These people can talk all they want. The American people are absolutely ripping Biden up right now on X.

[PeteS in CA]

I have no problem with fact-checking the Hur report's claim about Biden's mental state. It would be easy ... just release the recordings of Biden's interview. If the/some Dems oppose the release, that tells what they think or know the recordings will prove.

[rustynail]

Let those who never tried to recall a word or phrase cast the first,.. you know,  that thing.

[Timber Rattler]

I've seen that word "gratuitous" at least three dozen times today from Democrat politicos and mouthpieces.  Pretty obvious that it's their talking point on this.  The problem is that Hur was pretty clever with his report, which left Biden with a dilemma.  He's either too old and senile to stand trial, much less get convicted, and thus not fit to be President, OR the report is totally wrong, and so Biden is fit to be President and also fit enough to get charged and go to trial.

Pick your poison, Joe!

[bigheadfred]

I've seen that word "gratuitous" at least three dozen times today from Democrat politicos and mouthpieces.  Pretty obvious that it's their talking point on this.  The problem is that Hur was pretty clever with his report, which left Biden with a dilemma.  He's either too old and senile to stand trial, much less get convicted, and thus not fit to be President, OR the report is totally wrong, and so Biden is fit to be President and also fit enough to get charged and go to trial.

Pick your poison, Joe!

They might have a point if Joe hadn't gone out there last night and proved what Hur said.

[libertybele]

I have no problem with fact-checking the Hur report's claim about Biden's mental state. It would be easy ... just release the recordings of Biden's interview. If the/some Dems oppose the release, that tells what they think or know the recordings will prove.

Perhaps they'd use AI to make him sound cognitive?

[LMAO]

They might have a point if Joe hadn't gone out there last night and proved what Hur said.

I would love to been a fly in the room when he made the decision to have that presser over, what I’m assuming, the protests of his staff

I picture something like a staff member holding onto the bottom cuffs of his pants, trying to hold him back while they’re being dragged across the floor just before he got out before the press