The response from the White House and Joe Biden’s re-election campaign has been a class in what not to do in damage control.
The Hur report concluded that Joe Biden will not be charged for mishandling classified documents for forty years. It’s not because he is innocent, he is not, it is because he is an old man who suffers from memory loss. Special Counsel Hur’s report said that a jury would likely not find him guilty, instead, seeing him as a nice old man who becomes confused. In other words, a jury would likely be too sympathetic to convict Biden.
What the Hur report did was surprise the president and his staff by pointing out instances where Biden was unable to recall some basic facts, like the years when he was vice president and when his son, Beau, died. Hur’s revelations were shocking, to say the least.
Biden “willingly retained” classified documents from his time in the…
