How can a man deemed too senile to stand trial be deemed fit to run this country?
President Biden broke the law “willfully,” presenting “serious risks to national security” — but he’s too senile to put on the stand: That’s the bottom line of special counsel Robert Hur’s report on the prez’s mishandling of classified documents.
In a time when “shame” still meant anything, that’d be enough to end Biden’s re-election run — and his presidency.
Instead, he immediately took a victory lap, taking to the cameras to brag about how he’d “cooperated completely, threw up no roadblocks and sought no delays.”
Oy: The prosecutor interviewed the prez last October, and found his memory “significantly limited” then.
From the report:
“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?’).”
And: “He did not remember, even within several years, when his son Beau died.”
He presents as a “well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory.”
And he’s the leader of the free world . . . at least officially.
Whoever’s really calling the shots in the White House, it’s not anyone Americans elected.
Biden’s lawyers, Richard Sauber and Bob Bauer, claim they “do not believe that the report’s treatment of President Biden’s memory is accurate or appropriate”: We guess they feel saying that is their duty to their client.
But three times in the last week, Biden has publicly identified long-dead men as leaders he spoke to recently.
As we wrote before Hur’s report broke, his decline is obvious.
His staff won’t let him do a Super Bowl interview, plainly for fear he’ll poop the bed trying to answer a few softball questions before the largest TV audience of this election year.
It’s simply unconscionable for Democrats to nominate this guy for re-election: If he was too far gone to put on the stand last October, how can he possibly function for the next five years?
We’d be calling on the Cabinet to invoke the 25th Amendment and declare him unfit, except that’d put Kamala Harris in the hot seat.
For the record, the evidence Biden knowingly broke the law seems indisputable: In a recorded conversation with his ghostwriter in February 2017, for example, Biden said he “just found all this classified stuff downstairs,” apparently documents about the 2009 Afghanistan troop surge — stuff he had no right to have (but “I didn’t want to turn them in”), let alone share with a complete civilian.
Yet any question of just punishment is beside the point: The president of the United States is mentally unfit.
If the rest of Washington just ignores that horrific fact, they’re unfit too.