As is obvious to everyone who watched it, President Joe Biden’s impromptu address to the nation Thursday night was an unmitigated disaster. He was late (as usual), immediately lied about what Special Counsel Robert Hur’s report found, exhibited memory issues, indignantly responded to press questions, looked like a deer in headlights when the cacophony of press questions got a little loud, and confused Egypt and Mexico when answering a question about Gaza.
The only people disagreeing with this so far is CNN’s Van Jones, who told Anderson Cooper that “This was not Joe Biden at his best” before pivoting to rant about Donald Trump, and any potential Democrat challengers.
Ambitious Democrats watching that Biden press conference pic.twitter.com/QrOvPbj1mI
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While all of us would have known ahead of time that this address – or at least…
