Democrats now have a serious problem – a candidate who’s too old and mentally incompetent to be tried, asking voters to decide he’s competent enough to remain president.
It’s the crucial question voters are going to have to answer in the coming months following the devastating Department of Justice special counsel report raising questions about Joe Biden’s age and mental fitness.
One thing is clear: the time for excuses for Biden is over — no matter how often Rachel Maddow says Biden is fine because he can ride a bike.
Even the liberal New York Times calls the DOJ report a “political disaster.”
The only reason special counsel Robert Hur didn’t recommend trying Biden for keeping classified documents is because they didn’t feel they could get a conviction based on his age, mental fitness and hazy memory.
“It would be difficult to convince a jury that they should convict him – by then a former president well into his 80s – of a serious felony that requires a mental state of wellness,” Hur wrote.
Hur described Biden as a “well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory” who had “diminished faculties in advancing age.”
Now that’s a bumper sticker.
An angry Biden couldn’t even get through a three-minute press conference designed to make him look competent without making a major mistake – confusing the presidents of Mexico and Egypt.
In fundraisers this week, Biden twice claimed he spoke with German Chancellor Helmut Kohl in 2021. Kohl died in 2017.
In the wake of the DOJ report, some Republicans said they would demand the Cabinet invoke the 25th amendment, which provides for the removal of a president who is incapacitated. That movement could gain steam in the coming weeks.
U.S. Rep. Claudia Tenney (R-N.Y.) wrote to Attorney General Merrick Garland that she has “grave concerns” about the Hur report and asked him to immediately revoke Biden’s presidency.
At the very least, the report has given Donald Trump a major boost and Democrats will begin to openly speculate about replacing Biden in the primaries with another Democrat.
Peppered with questions on Thursday about why he won’t step aside this election, Biden insisted, “Because I’m the most qualified person in this country to be president of the United States and finish the job I started.”
Sure, that’s why Biden refuses to even do a friendly Super Bowl interview for fear of making yet another glaring mistake.
Debates are now out of the question. Democrats will never expose the 81-year-old Biden to that rigorous test.
The president’s job approval rating will now plummet even lower if that’s possible. He’s at 37% and is going to be pushing for an all-time low.
Biden is unlikely to make it past the convention. His gaffes and missteps are becoming more and more noticeable and it’s only going to get worse leading up to the election.
Democrats are in full panic mode except for true believers like Maddow.
The Democratic Party will have to figure out how to rally around Vice President Kamala Harris.
If they go to the convention and try to displace her, it will get ugly and divisive.
