It is no longer a topic of debate: Joe Biden has to go.
At a hastily called press conference Thursday night, the White House press pool relentlessly grilled President Biden for the first time about his age, cognition and fitness to serve.
Finally!
The apparent headline was intended to be that the Justice Department report had cleared Biden of mishandling classified documents.
But the real headline was contained in the reasoning of special prosecutor Robert Hur.
He wrote that a jury would be unlikely to convict him because Biden, 81, is “a sympathetic, well-intentioned old man with a poor memory” who suffers from “diminished faculties with advancing age.”
Biden told investigators he did not remember when his term as vice president ended. ‘If it were 2013, when did I stop being vice president?’ he asked.
It is no longer a topic of debate: Joe Biden has to go. At a hastily called press conference Thursday night, the White House press pool relentlessly grilled President Biden for the first time about his age, cognition, and fitness to serve. Finally!
He did not remember, on the second day of his interview with prosecutors, when his term as vice president began: ‘In 2009, am I still vice president?’
And he couldn’t remember when his son Beau died.. Not even within a range of years.
If this were a Republican president, the articles of impeachment would have been drafted long ago. Amendment 25 would have been invoked. The op-eds calling for his resignation would be relentless.
Where are the patriots in the Democratic Party? Where are the Obamas and Clintons to save us from Joe Biden?
You can’t be too deteriorated to process and at the same time be smart enough to be president of the United States.
Finally, it seems that the Democrats are waking up. Party members told DailyMail.com that “panic time has come” and “we’re going to see more and more Democrats saying the quiet part out loud.”
“It’s a nightmare,” a Democratic member of the House of Representatives told NBC News.
After Biden’s press conference, New York Times columnist and Trump foe Maggie Haberman posted: “Several Democratic operatives have sent panicked text messages about what that press conference went like.”
The United States could follow the example of the United Kingdom, which relies on the so-called “men in gray suits,” a coalition of politicians who, behind closed doors, discreetly tell a politician when it is time to leave.
We could also require age limits. You can’t run for president of the United States until you’re 35. Why not also limit the age?
Age limits would have saved us not only from the catastrophe that is Biden but also from Donald Trump, who has lately shown cognitive problems of his own.
On the other hand, it is Trump derangement syndrome that has brought us here. We’ve been told time and time again that the only person who can beat Trump is Biden.
Not so. In fact, the only person who will guarantee Trump’s victory, after this absolute disaster, is old Joe.
He looked and sounded weak, feeble and confused. He couldn’t control the room. He looked up at the podium as journalists shouted at each other, looking tired and overwhelmed.
He responded to a question about the Israeli hostage crisis in fits and starts, like a rusty car engine struggling to turn: “I am of the opinion, as you know… that the conduct of the response… in the strip from Gaza… has been, um…’ – here he paused for a long time – ‘exaggerated’.
The apparent headline was intended to be that the Justice Department report had cleared Biden of mishandling classified documents. But the real headline was contained in the reasoning of special prosecutor Robert Hur. (Pictured: Classified documents in Biden’s garage.)
He wrote that a jury would be unlikely to convict him because Biden, 81, is “a sympathetic, well-intentioned old man with a poor memory” who suffers from “diminished faculties with advancing age.”
Where are the patriots in the Democratic Party? Where are the Obamas and Clintons to save us from Joe Biden? You can’t be too deteriorated to process and at the same time be smart enough to be president of the United States.
Worse still, he said he had spoken to ‘President Sisi’ – Egypt’s leader – about opening humanitarian aid to Gaza, but referred to him as ‘the president of Mexico’.
Our enemies are seeing this. Is it any coincidence that Hamas, Iran, the Houthis, Russia, China and North Korea are so emboldened?
Joe Biden is a walking, talking crisis.
He tried to deflect the report’s devastating conclusion that he couldn’t remember when Beau died.
‘How the hell dare you bring that up?’ Biden growled.
To be fair to Hur, Biden talks about Beau’s death all the time. It has become the fabric of his political narrative. It’s fair play.
“Let me tell you something,” Biden continued. “I have carried, since the day of his death, every day, the rosary that he received from Our Lady of…”
And here, Biden visibly blanked, waving one hand in front of his face as he tugged at said rosary on his wrist.
‘I don’t need anyone, I don’t need anyone, to remind me when he passed away. When he passed away.’
That’s not the point. Joe Biden can no longer hide behind his personal tragedies. There is too much at stake.
Unless Thursday night’s press conference was a domestic coup attempt, enough people in Biden’s inner circle thought it was a good idea, in a week when the president, on two different days, announced that he had been talking to dead heads. of State.
The mass media ought To be on fire. However, his left-wing defenders outdid themselves on Thursday night, displaying embarrassing levels of excuses and intellectual dishonesty. We’ll get to that in a moment.
Here’s how you can tell the Justice Department report is right: The White House press pool, which for years has ignored this elephant in the room, attacked Biden with ferocity.
‘How bad is your memory? ‘Can he continue as president?’ asked a journalist.
—Do you think your memory has worsened, Mr. President? said another.
A reporter: “Many Americans have been watching and expressing concern about his age…”
“That’s YOUR judgment,” Biden responded, his voice filled with fury. ‘That is YOUR judgement. That is not the judgment of the press.”
But it is the judgment of the electorate. NBC News’ latest national poll found that a whopping 76 percent of voters are concerned about Biden’s physical and mental ability to serve.
It is Trump derangement syndrome that has brought us here. We’ve been told time and time again that the only person who can beat Trump is Biden. Not so. In fact, the only person who will guarantee Trump’s victory, after this absolute disaster, is old Joe.
Yet here were the Biden cheerleaders on Rachel Maddow’s MSNBC show, a veritable think tank offering all sorts of accusations and excuses, shaming the special counsel for doing his job, for saying what we all know to be true. What we all just witnessed with our own eyes during that press conference.
‘What’s the word ‘elderly’ doing there?’ asked fellow host Lawrence O’Donnell. ‘Uh… ‘bad memory’, what’s the proof of that?’
Are you kidding?!?
Ari Melber, MSNBC chief legal correspondent: “Legally there is no interest or relevance (to Biden’s cognition),” he said. ‘If it is very specifically about mental criminal intent or area for men… Sure.’
Except the special counsel said, in his conclusion, that Biden’s “poor memory” was exactly the reason for not pressing charges. To quote the report:
“It would be difficult to convince a jury that they should convict him (by then a former president in his eighties) of a serious crime requiring a state of obstinacy.”
Another great effort, courtesy of the network’s Chris Hayes: “There was one adverb that just stood out to me,” he said, referring to Biden’s description as “painfully” slow.
‘I just thought: Who suffers?… In that adverb there is that siren song that jumps off the page.’
Okay, yes. And rational Americans are paying attention.
Now on to Joy Reid’s embarrassment: “He’s nasty and sarcastic, for no reason.”
Without reason! I guess national security now falls under the umbrella of minutiae on MSNBC.
Remember: Maddow and company. – And her ilk at the New York Times – consider themselves the smartest people in the room. Smarter than us, and surely smarter than the members of the Democratic Party who have begun to admit, openly, that Biden has to go.
Now, finally, the urgency is clear. If Biden does not step aside, the party must impeach him soon.
Anything less is not only unpatriotic: it is dangerous.