In interviews with Hur’s office, Biden “did not remember when he was vice president”, asking in two separate and alarming instances “if it was 2013 – when did I stop being vice president?” and “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,” noted Hur.
Concluding that jurors could have been persuaded that Biden didn’t return those materials because he forgot he had them in his house, Hur wrote: “[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.” But if Biden is too elderly and forgetful to stand trial, what makes him fit to be president, either now or in the future?
This unvarnished truth has been spelt out by a neutral arbiter – not by someone politically partisan. Yet still the attempted cover-up continues. Hur has now been accused of “trashing” the subject of an investigation “with extraneous, unfounded and irrelevant critical commentary”.
Clearly Biden’s people did not want this information to be made public. But the truth of the matter is that just as it was irresponsible to put Biden into office, so too is it irresponsible to keep him there.