Biden's memory is 'hazy' and 'poor,' says a special counsel's report raising questions about his age
Biden's memory is 'hazy' and 'poor,' says a special counsel's report raising questions about his age
The longstanding concerns about President Joe Biden’s age and memory intensified on Thursday after the release of a special counsel’s report investigating his possession of classified documents.
“He did not remember when he was vice president, forgetting on the first day of the interview when his term ended (‘if it was 2013 — when did I stop being Vice President?’)
This was a five-hour interview the day after the October 7 attack in Israel. He was thinking about a brewing war in the Middle East and couldn’t recall a date. He also strikes me as the kind of person who thinks about things like this out loud. It doesn’t necessarily mean he didn’t know, just that he was processing it externally.
“He did not remember, even within several years, when his son Beau died.”
OK, fuck, that’s not great. Then again, I’m 40 years younger than him and I can’t tell you the exact dates when important people in my life died.
This right here. I'm 43 and don't remember birthdays or death days for most of my family. I also have to think things through to remember at times. I also have problems recalling specific words at random ass times, for example I wouldn't be able to bring up the word "table" but could tell you about fermis paradox, another time it would be "sidewalk" that my brain could be assed to remember.
Biden is old and should be retired somewhere on the beach. He chose to run again because he knew we needed to get rid of trump, remember that, he chose to run again. Now he is the only thing standing between democracy and another large step into fascism with a future dictator.
Some days ago I was asked how old I was and I had to seriously think about it for some seconds. Some things are important to me, some aren't. Some memories are easy to access and others might be buried below grief and years of just not thinking about them.
And you're right. He's probably not running for himself but to keep that orange douche out. And that's a good thing.
“He did not remember, even within several years, when his son Beau died.”
This one just pisses me off. It's framed so dishonestly.
I can recall extremely specific things about when people I know died. What the weather was, what I was wearing, what video game I was playing when I heard the news, and so on. But I couldn't necessarily pull the right year out of my brain without checking. Or necessarily even the date for some people.
I promise that Biden remembers the death of his son in whatever specific way is meaningful to him. It might not be "on this day/month/year." It might be "on a Tuesday" or might be "a cold snowy day when I was baking bread." I have no idea. But this just isn't how memory works, and it's hurtful, evil even, to print something that dishonest. It boils my blood to read such dishonest reporting.
Hey - AP News - where’s the shocking exposé that Trump is a demented, convicted fraud and rapist who organized a coup the last time you gave him a four year free ride without ONCE calling him a liar, or definitely guilty of collusion or violating emoluments or anything of the kind? Hm? WHERE IS THAT COMMON SENSE REPORTING WE’VE BEEN DOING FOR YOU FOR EIGHT YEARS.
Fucking Biden can’t remember things. You fucks. You republiQan-owned turd factory. Get the fuck outta here with your bullshit horserace clickbait. God damn you.
This smells EXACTLY like the report on Hillary's emails that came out just before the election that didn't amount to anything but losing the election for her.
Oh yes. that’s why she lost…,
Coverage of the Comey letter absolutely tanked her polling numbers. Her lead was cut in half in like 2 days, within like 10 days of the election. Sure, it's not the only reason, but it was absolutely a serious contributing factor.
I am not a 91 felon count and twice impeached crook...
Trump is a literal retard and a probable dementia patient. I'll take "hazy and poor memory" over "batshit fucking insane AND stupid" any day.
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Well, that's not great.
Hur is Republican, but he doesn't have anything really egregious in his past to suggest he's a hardcore ideologue. But man does it sound like that report was constructed for political purposes. On the other hand, those are direct quotes, and lying about that would be a significantly worse act than trying to describe the president unkindly. And if he were a regular suspect, saying he's a kindly old man with memory problems wouldn't really be inappropriate, and would be relevant for whether he should be held culpable, so I guess it's plausible Hur's trying to be objective.
Hur was appointed as special counsel by Garland who was appointed by Biden.
I don't get what you're trying to say here. Being appointed by Merrick Garland doesn't make him not a Republican or definitely not a ideologue. Centrist Democrats love picking conservatives for positions because it will demonstrate how enlightened they are and definitely (100%, for sure) defuse any criticism that an acquittal was political.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
WASHINGTON (AP) — The longstanding concerns about President Joe Biden’s age and memory intensified on Thursday after the release of a special counsel’s report investigating his possession of classified documents.
The White House pushed back on the characterizations of Biden’s memory in a Feb. 5 letter from the president’s lawyers that was published in special counsel Robert Hur’s report.
Biden noted in a statement issued Thursday that he had sat for five hours of interviews with Hur’s team over two days on Oct. 8 and 9, “even though Israel had just been attacked on October 7th and I was in the middle of handling an international crisis.”
The release of the report overlapped with recent Biden speeches in which he mistakenly claimed to talk with European leaders — France’s Francois Mitterand and Germany’s Helmut Kohl — who had, in fact, not held office since the 1990s and had died several years ago.
Joe Biden is unfit to lead this nation,” said Alex Pfeiffer, a spokesman for Make America Great Again Inc., the main super PAC backing Trump’s candidacy.
Shortly before the special counsel’s report was publicly released, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre was playing down Biden’s gaffes at the daily news briefing.
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Of course it's the lemmy.ml news 😅
Seems like the Democrats want Trump in the office in 2024, running Genocide Joe instead of getting someone younger or just slightly better...
In an August poll by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs, 77% of U.S. adults said Biden is too old to be effective for four more years. It was one of the rare sources of bipartisan agreement during a politically polarized era, with 89% of Republicans and 69% of Democrats saying Biden’s age is a problem.
You do know Trump is only 3 years younger than Biden, right?
Yes, I knew they were close in age.
The people think it is an age problem, when it is really a mental health problem.
Donald was Born: Donald John Trump, June 14, 1946, Queens, New York City, U.S.; Age: 77 years
Joe was Born: Joseph Robinette Biden Jr, November 20, 1942, Scranton, Pennsylvania, U.S.; Age: 81 years