President Joe Biden's "age problem" is all over the news again. The other day the president confused the name of France's president with the name of a dead French president. Not long after, he used the name of a late German chancellor when he meant a former living one. Then on Thursday special counsel Robert Hur, a Republican former U.S. attorney appointed by former President Donald Trump, declined to prosecute Biden for his mishandling of classified documents, in part, Hur wrote, because he believed a jury would see Biden sympathetically as an "elderly man with a poor memory." Then, just hours after Hur's stinging report was released, Biden, at a news conference, referred to the president of Egypt, Abdel Fattah el-Sissi, as the "president of Mexico." Biden's slip-ups and Hur's jab have triggered another avalanche of news articles about Biden's advanced age and his fitness for office. It's safe to wager that this cycle is going to repeat itself again and again before Election Day. This is a preview of Zeeshan Aleem's latest article. Read the full column here. |
