A special counsel's report has offered a damning account of U.S. President Joe Biden's alleged mental decline. As he launches a difficult re-election bid, its decision to exonerate him legally offers cold political comfort.
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This report landed amid stinging headlines involving the president's repeated references lately to having recent conversations with long-dead world leaders. So the report exonerated Biden legally. But ravaged him politically. The report struck Biden in a sensitive area, as voter skepticism about his age and ability pose a severe threat to his re-election prospects.
The report says Biden struggled to remember what years he was vice-president: "If it was 2013 — when did I stop being vice-president?" it quotes him saying during an interview last fall. He left the vice-presidency in 2017. The bottom line: "Biden would likely present himself to a jury, as he did during our interview… as a sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory."
Other witnesses also suffered memory lapses and the special counsel report treated them more charitably than it did the president, said Biden's lawyers. I’m attacked for being honest and saying the quiet part out loud - the part DC insiders only do in private.I admire our President. I voted for him and campaigned for him. He has visited my home and been gracious to my family and our country.But shame on all of you pretending… pic.twitter.com/OdaKvW7vbcPhillips, who has been crushed by Biden in two early state primaries, posted videos of the president's recent verbal lapses.