The Elderly-Man-with-a-Poor-Memory Presidency

It’s not Joe Biden’s fault that he’s old and in decline. What’s blameworthy is that he and his wife, Jill, haven’t acknowledged what is happening to him.

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President Joe Biden exits the White House to speak to reporters before boarding Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, D.C., May 29, 2023.

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Joe Biden is the first official ever to be cleared by a special counsel for reasons of mental incompetence.

The president might have been better off if special counsel Robert Hur, investigating his mishandling of classified documents, had simply recommended indicting him instead of spelling out why a jury would not convict someone so clearly out of it.

Rich Lowry

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Rich Lowry

Rich Lowry is the editor in chief of National Review.

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