President Joe Biden’s age and aptitude are at the top of voters’ long list of concerns, according to an NBC News survey out Tuesday. About three-quarters of American voters, “including half of Democrats,” said they have serious reservations about the 81-year-old commander-in-chief’s mental and physical health to command the Oval Office.
The president did little to assuage voters’ skepticism Thursday night at a gaffe-filled press conference delivered in response to a damning election-year report that concluded Biden was too old and feeble to face felony charges over mishandling classified documents.
On Thursday, Special Counsel Robert Hur published the conclusions of a year-long investigation wherein federal prosecutors declined to press charges in part because the president is an “elderly man with a poor memory.”
“It would be difficult to convince a jury that they should convict him by — by then a former president well into his eighties — of a serious felony that requires a mental state of willfulness,” Hur’s team reported. For example, investigators said Biden “did not remember when he was vice president” and forgot the timeline of his son’s death, Beau, who died from brain cancer in 2015. The president has said that his son died in the Iraq War so frequently that daytime news commentators have even repeated the false claim.
Hur’s report also found Biden’s “memory appeared hazy when describing the Afghanistan debate that was once so important to him.”
The president delivered a scathing condemnation of Hur’s conclusions of the Democratic candidate’s mental
