March 13, 2024
Joe Biden and the 'old man defense'
By Stephan Helgesen
No amount of Internet searching could shed any light on what is now being called, the old man defense.
We can all thank Mr. Robert Hur, the Special Counsel assigned to investigate President Joe Biden's retention of classified materials, for this latest addition to the long list of "get out of jail free" cards now being printed up in Washington to help our non compos mentis president stay in office.
As an old(er) man, I wholeheartedly welcome Hur's conclusion that, according to his report:
…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. 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.
That conclusion and reluctance to prosecute a man who kept classified documents from his time as vice president (and before that, senator) in his garage should qualify Hur to be in the running for an AARP "Defender of the Aged" award, and it now gives old guys that know stuff and don't throw away stuff a precedent to hang our feed caps on.
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