If Joe Biden is not fit to stand trial, he is not fit to be president.
Special Counsel Robert Hur’s nearly 400-page report is filled with damning evidence of Biden’s carelessness with critical national security secrets.
And Mr. Biden’s defense is that the man is simply too old and forgetful to take responsibility for his actions.
Consider the Afghanistan war secrets Biden kept in his Delaware home. It also includes a confidential handwritten memo he wrote to President Barack Obama in 2009, which Biden kept because he thought it would justify his opposition to the surge. .
The memo and its confidential attachments state: “A fallen dog crate, a dog bed, a Zappos box, an empty bucket, a broken lamp wrapped in duct tape, and potting soil near a badly damaged box in the garage. , was found near synthetic firewood.”
Hoare suggested it was so reckless that Biden’s lawyers might convince jurors it was accidental. Rather, it looks like a place to store sensitive documents that people have forgotten about or are unaware of. ”
Well, that’s a relief.
Perhaps Mr. Herr should have taken into account Mr. Obama’s infamous assessment: “Never underestimate Joe’s ability to mess things up.”
Hoar concluded that it would be difficult to indict Biden on a manslaughter charge because jurors might think that Biden doesn’t remember where he put things.
When he sat down with ghostwriter Mark Zwonitzer for his book in 2017, Biden shared a secret, admitting that he had just found classified material in his rented Virginia home. Mr. Hoa found “Mr.” The conversations between Mr. Biden and Mr. Zwonitzer, recorded in 2017, are often painfully slow, with Mr. Biden having a hard time remembering events and at times struggling to read and communicate his notes. Ta. ”
One wonders if it could have been worse, given that Zvonitzer destroyed other interview tapes.
In a 2023 interview, Mr. Xu himself said, “Mr. To the jury, Biden may appear to be a “sympathetic, well-meaning elderly man with a poor memory.”
Mr. Hsu asked who would convict a former president, who would be at least well into his 80s by then, of a serious felony requiring a deliberate state of mind.
But Old Joe is still supposed to be the leader of the free world. He still deals with secrets every day, and sometimes has to make critical national security decisions on short notice based on what he’s told.
He is also the nation’s top law enforcement officer. The president, and the president alone, is mandated by the Constitution to “see that the laws are faithfully executed.”
It starts with some memorization of what the law is.
These are difficult tasks. He will be 82 years old by the end of his term, and if re-elected he will be 86 years old by the end of his next term, which is not suitable for a dim-witted person. You may feel bad for Biden, but we’d all be safer if he was eating ice cream on a Delaware beach and enjoying his retirement.
A recent ABC News poll found that 86% of Americans think Biden is too old to serve another term. Try to get that many Americans to agree on anything these days.
But, as Abraham Lincoln is said to have said, “You cannot fool all the people all the time.”
