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Democrats’ denials of President Biden’s health woes are self-defeating.
Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker says he “smells a rat.” So do most people in Illinois and across the nation.
But it’s not the same rat.
The rat Pritzker smells is the special prosecutor who recently announced that he would not file criminal charges against President Joe Biden for his willful mishandling of classified documents. Special counsel Robert Hur explained prosecution would be pointless because jurors probably would not vote to convict a “sympathetic, well-meaning elderly man with a poor memory.”
The governor foolishly opined that it was “unfair” for the special counsel to identify Biden’s “lack of mental acuity” for his decision not to file charges.
Almost everyone else — if the public opinion polls are correct — is in disbelief that others, like Pritzker, would dispute Hur’s findings about Biden’s diminishing grasp on reality.
Pritzker’s comments are all about politics and maintaining the White House, so it would be unfair to say about a business in which all is fair that his comments are — or ought to be — beneath him.
What is fair to say, however, is that Pritzker’s claims are not remotely credible and that he’s play acting when he claims otherwise. Why else would he and others be conspiring behind the scenes to succeed Biden as the Democratic presidential nominee in 2024?
Americans have been living with Biden’s declining mental and physical stature for months now. When it was just morally repugnant Republicans or some elements of the news media citing Biden’s decline, Democrats could dismiss it as hyper-partisan nonsense.
Unfortunately for Democrats, the special prosecutor cited Biden’s decline as the key factor in his non-prosecution decision.
Noting that winning a conviction requires “a mental state of willfulness,” Hurt pointed out that Biden “did not remember when he was vice president, forgetting on the first day of the interview when his term ended (‘if it was 2013 — when did I stop being Vice President?’), and forgetting on the second day of the interview when his term began (‘in 2009, am I still Vice President?’),” the report said.
Democratic excuse-makers like Pritzker contend it was “gratuitous” and unnecessary for Bur to cite those lapses. It was, in fact, entirely necessary to do so because a defendant’s mental state and ability to assist in his defense are major factors in any prosecution.
Democrats rightly view the Hur report as a political disaster. But it actually represents an opportunity to do the right thing for their party and the country.
Democrats now can dump Biden and come up with more credible presidential and vice presidential nominees than Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris.
To do otherwise courts disaster.
If Democrats successfully pull off a re-election charade in November, it won’t be too long before Biden is out and Harris is in. She’s probably already measuring the drapes in the Oval Office.
There also is another scenario that Democrats can’t abide but dare not ignore. If former President Trump is the GOP nominee, it would be no surprise if voters rejected a mentally failing candidate in favor of the one who, for all his faults, is clearly coherent.
People like Pritzker need to wake up to reality. On the issue of Biden’s mental capacity, they’re as deluded as the special prosecutor contends Biden is.
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