This is a presidency that is weakening before our eyes. When you come to escape justice not so much because you have nothing to reproach yourself for, but because you will inspire pity in a possible jury, it is difficult to say you are reassured that this man is the commander -in chief of the world’s leading power.
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Joe Biden brought with him, after his eight years as vice-president, confidential documents that he should have given to the National Archives. Unlike Donald Trump, Biden had no nuclear secrets or plans to attack a foreign power.
He also did not seek to hide the documents in his possession from investigators or to scheme to harm the work of the special prosecutor. It is he himself who recognizes this in his 388-page report which took fifteen months to complete.
Nothing compromising, and yet it is a devastating report for Joe Biden. There we find, confirmed by an external observer, what the Americans constantly repeat: Joe Biden is too old to stay as president.
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“IT’S NONE OF THEIR DAMN BUSINESS”
They are no longer memory lapses or insignificant oversights of inattention. Joe Biden was calmly – we can believe it – questioned by Robert Hur, the special prosecutor appointed to investigate his handling of documents from his vice-presidency.
The report said that Biden had forgotten when he had been president or that he had only vague memories of the yet so important debate over the withdrawal of American troops from Afghanistan.
Worse still for Joe Biden, the special prosecutor writes: “He did not remember, even within several years, the moment of the death of his son, Beau.” Late Thursday evening, during a hastily called press briefing, the 81-year-old president, moved and offended, attacked the special prosecutor: “How dare he bring this up?”
A WHITE HOUSE ON DEFENSIVE
I found myself three rows in front of the president’s spokesperson, Karine Jean-Pierre, on Friday during her briefing daily press. Not quite the day to raise any tensions between Canada and the United States or any other element of international news; the press secretary was bombarded with questions about the special prosecutor’s findings.
Exasperation was visible on his face. “I have known the president since 2009… Look what he has accomplished!… He constantly makes jokes about his age.” This White House is no longer able to highlight the accomplishments of the Biden administration.
We are only parrying the blows that follow one another since Joe Biden multiplies the blunders: Mitterrand rather than Macron, Kohl rather than Scholz and again Thursday evening, even as he vomited on this report which questioned his memory, he spoke of the president of Mexico, referring to Abdel Fatah al-Sissi, the president… of Egypt.
The special prosecutor concluded his report by saying that the way some of his vice-presidential documents had been manipulated did not merit prosecution: “A jury would give him the benefit of the doubt, because he is an elderly, friendly, well-mannered man. intentional and with a bad memory.”
From poll to poll, Americans – even Democrats – repeat that as warm as Joe Biden may be, he has had his day. He shouldn’t wait until people only vote for him out of pity.