While most leftists on social media circled the wagons around President Joe Biden on Thursday after the release of a damning special prosecutor’s report, at least one liberal outlet was troubled by Biden’s obvious loss of mental acuity.
The website Business Insider offered a few takes that surprisingly expressed doubts about Biden’s fitness and abilities.
At issue was a report by Special Counsel Robert Hur, appointed by the Justice Department to investigate Biden’s alleged mishandling of classified documents.
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The probe was prompted by the discovery of such documents at Biden’s home in Delaware and an office he kept in Pennsylvania.
Hur determined that Biden was in fact careless in handling the sensitive materials. But Hur also declined to prosecute Biden.
His reason: Biden’s memory is “significantly limited,” and since he is an “elderly man with a poor memory,” he could easily convince a jury that his alleged crime occurred because of his mistakes rather than a willful attempt to break the law.
Hur noted that Biden, in an interview, could not recall when he served as vice president (2009 to 2017) and could not recall when his son Beau died, even though Biden has repeatedly brought up his son’s death for political points, including last week when he spoke to the family of one of three U.S. troops killed in Jordan by a militants’ attack.
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During a hastily called press conference Thursday night to address Hur’s report, Biden proved the special counsel’s assessment, referring to Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi as the president of Mexico.
For its part, Business Insider (BI) noted that Biden had a “bad night” in trying to defend himself against the allegations.
Biden, who long has had a reputation for being a hothead, appeared “furious” and “angry” at both the reason behind Hur’s investigation and its findings.
Yet, the website reported, “It’s not exactly new information that Biden’s biggest liability is that he’s in his 80s. Polling consistently shows Americans of both political parties are concerned about the president’s age and fitness.”
“But having a special counsel report call out his memory so directly may be harder for voters to dismiss than when GOP pundits do it. And it will likely be harder for Biden and his campaign to ignore, too.”
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In a separate report, BI added, “Perhaps the biggest takeaway from Special Counsel Robert Hur’s report is that President Joe Biden is struggling with memory issues.”
“Hur’s report, while not recommending any criminal charges over Biden’s handling of classified documents, included seemingly grave warnings about the president’s mental acuity,” the website continued.
BI noted Biden’s failure to recall when he served as VP and when his son died. And then BI noted, “Biden has suffered several public memory lapses during his presidency, particularly in recent weeks.”
“At a campaign event in New York on Wednesday, Biden confused former German Chancellor Angela Merkel with her predecessor, who has since died. And days before that, he confused French President Emmanuel Macron with Francois Mitterrand, who died in 1996. Over the summer, Biden confused Ukraine with Iraq twice in a 24-hour period.”
In yet a third story about Biden and Hur’s report, BI called the findings “embarrassing” for Biden.
Biden is obviously an old man with a fading memory,” the website’s headline noted. “But here’s the thing: Are you really surprised by this?”
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“What’s different about the Hur revelations is that they’re spelled out in an official Department of Justice report, giving the obvious memory lapses a patina of officiality that Biden’s numerous one-camera slip-ups lack,” the report continued.
“Since the beginning of Biden’s presidency, he’s issued occasionally (sic) gaffes, tripped on stairs, or had other incidents that highlight the fact that he’s old,” BI added. Yet, the website predicted, Democrats will fall in line to support him.
Just as many did Thursday on social media.
One BI report predicted that the revelation of Biden’s failing mental fitness ultimately would not hurt him, especially with loyal Democrats.
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But even that seemed couched with doubt.
“The [Democratic] party as a whole, save for [challenger Rep. Dean] Phillips and his minority of supporters, has felt confident in their ability to win over the public not by insisting upon Biden’s sharp wit, but by the policies that Democratic trifectas were able to deliver in 2021 and 2022.”
What exactly would that “trifecta” be, though? Open borders, a sour economy, and a world on fire and in chaos?
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