The findings of Special Counsel Robert Hur back in February regarding Joe Biden’s age and memory issues marked the official beginning of the unraveling of the facade carefully painted by Biden’s apologists in the White House and media regarding his mental acuity.
Hur, as Legal Insurrection readers will recall, had been appointed by Dept. of Justice Attorney Gen. Merrick Garland in January 2023 to investigate the Biden classified documents case to see if there was any “there” there to the allegations of Biden improperly retaining and carelessly storing classified documents.
When his report was released earlier this year, a firestorm erupted over the conclusions he drew about Biden’s recollection of events. Among Hur’s observations:
We have also considered that, 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.[…]Mr. Biden’s memory also appeared to have significant limitations-both at the time he spoke to Zwonitzer in 2017, as evidenced by their recorded conversations, and today, as evidenced by his recorded interview with our office. Mr. Biden’s recorded conversations with Zwonitzer from 2017 are often painfully slow, with Mr. Biden struggling to remember events and straining at times to read and relay his own notebook entries.[…]In his interview with our office, Mr. Biden’s memory was worse. 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.
That same day, a visibly angry Biden held an impromptu press conference to attempt to refute the claims made by Hur — and instead ended up proving his point:
Democrats and the media pounced and seized on Hur, attacking his credibility and claiming he went too far in his role with his descriptive terms of Biden’s decline.
Vice President Kamala Harris wasted no time in trying to save her boss’s bacon, attacking Hur’s integrity and declaring without evidence that Hur’s comments were “politically motivated”:
“Listen, I have been privileged and proud to serve as vice president of the United States with Joe Biden as president of the United States. And what I saw [in] that report last night, I believe, as a former prosecutor, the comments that were made by that prosecutor [were] gratuitous, inaccurate and inappropriate.”[…]”So the way that the president’s demeanor in that report was characterized could not be more wrong on the facts and clearly politically motivated, gratuitous. And so I will say that when it comes to the role and responsibility of a prosecutor in a situation like that, we should expect that there would be a higher level of integrity than what we saw.”
Harris attacking someone else’s integrity considering her history of going the extra mile to get ahead in politics going back to the early days of her time on the California political scene was something else, but I digress.
A Congressional hearing was held a month later, during which Republicans grilled Hur for not recommending charges against Biden. Democrats tried to spin his report as an “exoneration” of Biden and cast Hur as a bad-faith actor who wanted a job in a future Trump administration.
Biden’s nightmarish performance at Thursday night’s presidential debate, where he was hoarse, was forgetful at times, and was often seen standing there with his mouth partially open was, in the eyes of many, a vindication of sorts for Hur:
The alarming visuals of Biden from the debate also prompted renewed calls for the DOJ to once and for all release the Hur/Biden tapes:
The transcripts are readily available, but Biden has asserted executive privilege over the tapes. And now the American people know exactly why.
— Stacey Matthews has also written under the pseudonym “Sister Toldjah” and can be reached via Twitter. —
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