MAGA Republicans have been desperate to draw false equivalencies between President Joe Biden and defendant Donald Trump. Normally, I would discourage my colleagues from running such a fool’s errand but, in this case, I’ll allow it.
Trump appears to be in a state of mental decline. I get it. He has a lot to be stressed about; 88 felony counts and owing the state of New York almost $400 million for a fraud judgment can stress a person. However, Republicans are attempting to paint President Biden as mentally feeble and incapable of fulfilling the duties of the Oval Office. To that end, in his special counsel report on his investigation into President Biden’s possession of classified material after he left the vice presidency, Robert Hur, a former U.S. attorney who was appointed by Trump, repeatedly opined on President Biden’s allegedly “poor memory.”
Now that we have the actual transcript of his conversation with President Biden, we know Hur doesn’t even believe the assessment he provided.
Now that we have the actual transcript of his conversation with President Biden, we know Hur doesn’t even believe the assessment he provided.
We learned in Tuesday’s hearing what Hur, perhaps intentionally, left out of his final report. In the transcript, when referencing President Biden’s remarks about the location of various items in his home, Hur states: “We have some photographs maybe to show you, but you have — appear to have a photographic understanding and, and recall of the house.”
One wonders why Hur would spontaneously compliment President Biden about his memory during their interview and yet, in his report, provide gratuitous and unnecessary commentary about the same on a topic irrelevant to his investigation, specifically about the death of one of the president’s children. Hur’s report suggested that President Biden had no sense of when his son Beau Biden died. It’s the kind of anniversary no parent would want to even exist, but the transcript…
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