President Biden's Recall Is So Weak He Forgot About It
WASHINGTON -- President Joe Biden's memory is even worse than it looks.
That's the bad news found in Special Counsel Robert Hur's report on his criminal investigation of Biden's habitual mishandling of classified information.
Hur concluded that Biden "willfully retained and disclosed classified materials after his vice presidency when he was a private citizen." Which, for most of us chickens, would be a crime. But Hur offered he would not charge Biden, 81, because the president likely would present himself to jurors as a "well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory."
That's probably how Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping see Biden as well.
The most disturbing news in the Hur report: During an interview, Biden wasn't sure exactly when he was vice president or in which year his son Beau died.
Talking to reporters Thursday night, Biden vehemently denied that he shared classified information or that had forgotten the time of his son's death.
It was sad, but I believe Hur.
In the previous week, Biden had been caught saying that he had discussed the Jan. 6, 2021, riots with former French President Francois Mitterrand and German Chancellor Helmut Kohl -- even though they'd been dead for years before the riots.
Americans have been highly skeptical about Biden's cognitive abilities for some time.
But you also have to question his judgment. Biden's desire to leave a legacy as a foreign-policy sage led him to hold onto classified documents. And share them with his ghostwriter, Mark Zwonitzer.
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