Soon after the transcripts of Special Counsel Robert Hur's interview with President Joe Biden were released, the mainstream press - as though handed talking points by the White House - said they weren't nearly as bad as Hur had made them out to seem in his report.
CBS News even dismissed evidence of dementia - "Biden appears to be reaching for words he cannot find. Twice, the phrase 'fax machine' eludes him, and he confuses Iraq and Afghanistan for Iran" - by saying that such "Missteps appear to be common lapses for Mr. Biden who for years has struggled with names and dates in public speaking engagements." So, you see, no problem here.
It's not "Complicated," or "Nuanced." As we suspected, it provides the perfect context for Hur's contention that Biden is an old man with memory problems.
We counted 37 instances where Biden says "I don't remember" during his interviews with Hur, and 26 times when he says "I don't recall." That's a lot of nuance.
Here's the key exchange: MR. HUR: So during this time when you were living at Chain Bridge Road and there were documents relating to the Penn Biden Center, or the Biden Institute, or the Cancer Moonshot, or your book, where did you keep papers that related to those things that you were actively working on? PRESIDENT BIDEN: Well, um I, I, I, I, I don't know.
PRESIDENT BIDEN: Remember, in this timeframe, my son is - either been deployed or is dying, and, and so it was - and by the way, there were still a lot of people at the time when I got out of the Senate that were encouraging me to run in this period, except the President.
Do you remember how things like the Beau Iowa binder got into - PRESIDENT BIDEN: No, I - MR. HUR: - this spot? PRESIDENT BIDEN: Somebody must've, packing this up, just picked up all the stuff and put it in a box, because I didn't.
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