Prior to the release of Special Counsel Robert Hur’s report on Joe Biden’s mental capacity and memory issues, an individual who had personally interacted with the president last week expressed their astonishment at his condition. On Thursday evening, Fox News host Laura Ingraham engaged in a discussion with contributor and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich regarding Hur’s findings.
Ingraham highlighted the fact that Democrats were already disputing Hur’s assessment of Biden’s mental capacity by asserting that they had not witnessed any deficiencies during their interactions with him. Ingraham specifically mentioned that Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.) stated to CNN that he had not observed any signs of “poor memory” in Biden, while Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) claimed to have engaged in lengthy conversations with the president just a few months ago and found him to be “as sharp as ever.”
“I mean, Newt, come on,” Ingraham said, before adding:
“I have it on good authority…a friend of mine was in the White House a couple of weeks ago, and she is not a Trump fan, let me just say this… She was up close and personal with the president, and was shocked — her words were ‘shocked’ about his state.”
Laura Ingraham drops a bombshell: Reveals that a close friend of hers visited the White House days ago and saw Biden firsthand.
Her friend described Biden's declined mental state as no less than "shocking."
Shame on the Biden family for subjecting us to this. pic.twitter.com/JD4y6RVqt4
— USA Features Media (@UsaFeatures) February 9, 2024
Hur’s documentation of Biden’s significant decline in cognitive abilities will also reignite debates among the vast majority of Americans, as indicated by recent surveys. These individuals firmly believe that the president is incapable of fulfilling another four-year term, let alone completing his current tenure.
Just the news notes:
Hur’s 388-page report released Thursday may have spared Biden the spectacle of a criminal prosecution similar to that his Justice Department imposed on Donald Trump, but it delivered a devastating blow to the 46th president’s re-election hopes by going out of its way to explain criminal charges weren’t levied in part because jurors might see Biden as a dottering, forgetful old man incapable of criminal intent.
“Mr. Biden will likely present himself to the jury, as he did during his interview with our office, as a sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory,” Hur wrote in explaining his rationale for refusing prosecution. “…It would be difficult to convince a jury they should convict him – by then a former president who will be at least well into his eighties – of a serious felony that requires a mental state of willfulness.”
“Our investigation uncovered evidence that President Biden willfully retained and disclosed classified materials after his vice presidency when he was a private citizen,” the report concluded.
Hur added for good measure he believed Biden suffered from “diminished faculties in advancing age.”
“Every time he (Biden) talks, he’s confused,” Rep. Rich McCormick, R-Ga told Just the News. “If he’s not taken by the arm and shown where to go, he doesn’t know where to walk. He could be at the White House and try to go through the wrong entrance. He could be on stage and not know which direction to go. He doesn’t know who’s standing next to him. He doesn’t even know where he’s going.
“This is just a confused old man. Now, the whole problem with the whole prosecution issue is I’m more concerned about presidential decisions,” he noted further, according to the outlet. “We’re talking about a guy who has the keys to nuclear arms. You’re talking about a guy who makes decisions on who to attack and who to defend, and who to support and has to make a defense of our policy – foreign and domestic.
“This is a guy who couldn’t sell his plan to anybody right now. I think the Democrats are starting to realize that in a very real way,” he added.
