Joe Biden isn’t working. That much has been clear to anyone who has followed American politics for the past four years. The 81-year-old often has no idea what he is saying or where he is. Yet it’s only now, months away from his possible re-election, that the Department of Justice, apparently in an attempt to exonerate him for committing the same crime Donald Trump is accused of, has finally admitted the obvious: he’s not really in charge of himself, let alone the country.

After interrogating Biden about his hoarding of classified documents, Special Counsel Robert K. Hur reported:

We have also considered that, at trial, Mr Biden would likely present himself to a jury, as he did during our interview of him, as a sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory.

Hur also reported that Biden ‘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?’) and forgetting on the second day of the interview when his term began (‘in 2009, am I still vice president?’) He did not remember, even within several years, when his son Beau died. And his memory appeared hazy when describing the Afghanistan debate that was once so important to him.

American politics is increasingly mad. In Washington, DC, a court ruled this week that Donald Trump did not have ‘presidential immunity’ in regards to his behaviour in the run up to 6 January 2021: his document hoarding is another matter. But Mr Hur’s point was that Biden was immune because he was president; he was simply too-far-gone to be prosecuted.

Biden hit back at Hur’s assessment yesterday:

I’m a well-meaning, I’m an elderly man and I know what the hell I’m doing.

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09.02.2024

Joe Biden isn’t working. That much has been clear to anyone who has followed American politics for the past four years. The 81-year-old often has no idea what he is saying or where he is. Yet it’s only now, months away from his possible re-election, that the Department of Justice, apparently in an attempt to exonerate him for committing the same crime Donald Trump is accused of, has finally admitted the obvious: he’s not really in charge of........

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