Story of The Year: White House Coverup of President Biden’s Mental and Physical Decline

The Wall Street Journal….

   The story of the week, and really of the year, is the unraveling of the White House coverup of President Biden’s mental and physical decline. The truth was obvious to most Americans, as reflected in the opinion polls, but Mr. Biden’s advisers went to enormous lengths to hide the reality, as our colleagues on the Journal’s news staff have reported. The media and Democrats in Congress were complicit. Jason Riley writes about what he calls this “epic scandal” and how it will damage the Biden legacy.

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Biden’s Legacy Will Be His Mental Decline

When does partisan allegiance become elder abuse?

By: Jason L. Reilly, Wall Street Journal, December 30, 2024:

Justice Department Special Counsel Robert Hur listens during a House Judiciary Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, March 12. Photo: Jacquelyn Martin/Associated Press

Remember when Robert Hur took pity on President Biden and caught hell for it?

For anyone who’s forgotten, Mr. Hur was the special counsel tapped by Attorney General Merrick Garland to investigate Mr. Biden’s pre-presidential handling of classified documents, some of which had been stored in the garage and basement of the president’s Wilmington, Del., home.

Following an inquiry that included more than five hours of interviews with Mr. Biden over two days, Mr. Hur released a 345-page report of his investigation in February. It concluded that Mr. Biden “willfully retained and disclosed classified materials after his vice presidency when he was a private citizen.” Nevertheless, Mr. Hur determined that “no criminal charges are warranted.” Why? In part because a jury would be unlikely to convict “a sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory” and “diminished faculties in advancing age.”

Democrats and their media pals were relieved that Mr. Biden wouldn’t face charges, but they bristled at Mr. Hur’s descriptions of the president’s declining mental state. “In his interview with our office, Mr. Biden’s memory was worse” than in his recorded conversations with his ghostwriter in 2017, Mr. Hur reported. “He did not remember when he was vice president, forgetting on the first day of the interview when his term ended (‘if it was 2013—when did I stop being Vice President?’), and forgetting on the second day of the interview when his term began (‘in 2009, am I still Vice President?’). He did not remember, even within several years, when his son Beau died.”

Vice President Kamala Harris said the revelations were “politically motivated,” and Sen. John Fetterman of Pennsylvania called them a “big nothing burger.” The press should know better than to blame the messenger, but that didn’t stop Washington Post columnist Ruth Marcus from accusing Mr. Hur of overstepping his bounds—“Excuse me. Is Hur a lawyer or a geriatrician? What’s his expertise in making this damaging assessment?”—and insisting that his “portrayal of Biden as a doddering old man is inconsistent with what I hear from those who have frequent interactions with him.”

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