Biden’s Memory? Or Biden’s Wisdom?

By Shlomo Maital

       On November 1, 2017, Robert Hur was nominated by President Donald Trump to be the next United States Attorney for the District of Maryland.   On January 12, 2023, Attorney General Merrick Garland appointed Hur to oversee the United States Department of Justice’s investigation into President Joe Biden’s alleged mishandling of classified documents during his time as vice president.  His report referred to President Biden as a “well-meaning elderly man with a poor memory”.

      Hur is now in private law practice in Washington.  His report is a political hit job on the only issue Republicans have to attack Biden – because the economy is doing well, inflation is down, and the Republicans just shot down their own border security bill – while Trump just invited Putin to attack Europe if the cheapskate Europeans don’t pay up. Hur knows less than zero about memory or neurology.

       Americans – you want TRUMP to lead you? 

       And re memory.  I’m 81, Biden’s age.  OK, I don’t always remember that Sigourney Weaver was the female lead in Alien.  So?  But I’ve learned a few things over the past 81 years.  6/10 on memory, and, this is not boastful, 9/10 on experience and life wisdom.   With memory, you can look it up. With crucial decisions – you have to rely on wisdom. Answer this. Is Trump wise????  Is Biden wise?

         Shame to let a political hack, Trump appointee, gratuitously stray from the job a Democratic  Secretary of Justice assigned him, just to boost his law practice. 

          And re that disastrous Biden press conference?    Thick-headed reporters twisted the knife and asked Biden about the Hur Report’s reference to the death of his son Beau – when it occurred.  It upset and angered Biden.  I know that when I’m angry and upset, I do not think very clearly. Neither did Biden. 

           Fire the damned reporter.  And disbar Robert Hur.

* Shear, Michael D. (February 8, 2024). “Special Counsel’s Report Puts Biden’s Age and Memory in the Spotlight”. The New York Times.