By now, you’ve probably read, seen, or heard the reports about how bad Joe Biden’s mental acuity is. It’s so bad, according to the 258-page transcript of a two-day interview between the President and Special Counsel Robert Hur and his team of prosecutors, that even though their conclusion was that Biden committed multiple violations of law in the handling of classified documents, the likelihood was that a jury would see the declined state of Joe Biden’s cognitive ability and not return a guilty verdict. In short, he’s too far gone to understand what is going on around him, and trying to punish him for something he doesn’t understand probably wouldn’t work with a jury. In layman’s terms, Hur and his team concluded Biden’s out there where the buses don’t run anymore.
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Let me state for the record that I am not a lawyer. I never attended a single class in an accredited law school. I’ve never been the subject of an investigation by prosecutors in which I’ve been deposed. That said, there is one thing I, and most Americans, intrinsically know. When you’re asked a question, if your answer is longer than, “Yes,” “No,” “I don’t recall,” or a one sentence direct answer, you’re not doing the deposition right. Joe Biden is a lawyer. He had five lawyers sitting in on the interview with him – three from the Office of White House Counsel, and two personal attorneys. Brevity is not the path Biden chose to take.
Andrew Kerr and Joseph Simonson over at the Free Beacon have the best reporting thus far not of the House Oversight hearing yesterday with Special Counsel Hur, but of the actual transcript released Tuesday of the two-day interview Biden gave at the White House on October 8-9, 2023. In fact, Biden himself, in a hastily-arranged, angry press briefing on February 8th, the day the Hur report was released to the public, offered up this as a response to the Hur conclusion about his mental fitness to stand trial.
He was too busy dealing with the international crisis of the Hamas massacre in Southern Israel a day before his interview with Hur. That’s why, Biden claims, he wasn’t as sharp and focused as he normally is. First, being distracted to the point of not appearing mentally sharp while an international crisis is unfolding is not exactly the best line on a presidential resume when campaigning for another term. But from the actual transcript of the first day of interviews, we read this exchange.
There was one line of text from the transcript on the first day remarking on the President taking a call from Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. One line. Here, we read half a page of back and forth between Biden, his attorneys, and the Hur team to navigate the truly important stuff – the staff barbecue that was happening later that night. So much for the excuse that Biden was distracted by the 10/7 attacks.
Biden was asked whether he transferred classified docs from his vice presidential residence to his Delaware residence. Somehow, Joe the lawyer felt the need to add this for context.
“You left everything in place,” Biden told Hur in reference to the special counsel’s search of his Delaware lake house. “I just hope you didn’t find any risqué pictures of my wife in a bathing suit. Which you probably did. She’s beautiful.”
I think I can honestly say I never hope to find risqué pictures of Dr. Jill Biden, either.
Then, this whopper, again reported in the Free Beacon.
During this tangent, Biden revealed a remarkable feat: He hit a target hundreds of yards away with a bow and arrow during a visit to Mongolia in August 2011.
“I’m not a bad archer,” Biden said, after referring to Mongolian archers as “gorillas.” “But … I hit the goddamn target.”
A video uploaded by the Obama administration of the occasion shows Biden shooting a bow into an empty field. The White House did not respond to a request for comment.
In case you want to see the video, this was put on the WhiteHouse.gov website during then-V.P. Biden’s trip to Mongolia.
To be fair, he actually was in Mongolia. I was skeptical, but he was there, along with the Sumo wrestlers. Thankfully, the archers shown were not dark-skinned, or the gorillas line might be a little more problematic than it is. As for hitting the blankety-blank target, look at the video again. There were not 20 hay bales with a target on it hundreds of yards away as Biden claimed in vivid detail during the Hur interview. I’ve seen the Marvel movies. I watched Hawkeye. Joe Biden is no Hawkeye. He shot an arrow into an open field. If his target was landing an arrow somewhere within 5 acres of dead grass, Biden scored a bullseye.
Now, we get to the kicker. Out of the 1968 Syracuse University School of Law graduating class of 85 students, Joe Biden finished 76th. Why so low, you ask? One, he’s not terribly bright, as virtually anyone in politics will tell you. But more important, in his first year Torts class, he plagiarized a Law Review article for a paper he had to write and failed the course as a result. That plagiarism, along with three other times during his first presidential run in 1988 he appropriated material not his own, including the most famous incident of academic theft being from Neil Kinnock, caused his campaign to implode. The avalanche of gaffes and lies proved to be too much to overcome.
Yet in his interview with Hur’s team, Biden took a question from Hur, who doggedly continued all day to rein the conversation back to how classified documents ended up at seven different locations in Biden’s private life. Instead, Biden went down this rabbit hole while reminiscing about his failed Tort class at Syracuse.
Later, as Hur attempted to steer the conversation back to how classified documents made their way from Biden’s West Wing office to his personal residences, Biden again veered into an unrelated story about how he “didn’t take law school very seriously,” but had a knack for unpacking tort cases on the fly.
“We had a really difficult professor,” Biden recalled. “He called on me to—you know how they do in law school, discuss a case, you know, in your first torts class. And I had never read the case, and I stood up and I spoke for 10 minutes. The whole class stood up, started clapping.”
Biden then detailed a bizarre episode during one of his first jobs out of law school involving a 23-year-old construction worker with a seared penis and a missing testicle, and how the case ultimately led him to enter politics.
“This poor kid is down a hundred-foot vessel, chimney, scraping the hydrogen bubbles off of the inside,” Biden told Hur. “And he was wearing the wrong pants, wrong jeans, and he—a spark caught fire and got caught in the containment vessel and he lost part of his penis and one of his testicles and he was 23 years old.”
Floyd the Barber told stories out loud to nobody in particular outside his shop on a bench in Mayberry. It was funny when televised on the Andy Griffith Show. It’s not funny when the guy with the nuclear launch codes is doing it. Again, this is the guy who’s being interviewed about potential felonies he’s committed, and he riffs about a young man’s burned off genitalia for context?
The President talked a lot about cars, both his Vroomy Corvette (yes, he actually made the sound effect of his car during a deposition on classified documents), and how fast these newfangled electric vehicles can go.
“Damn, they’re quick,” Biden said. “You step your foot on the accelerator all the way down until it gets to about 6, 7 grand. Then all of a sudden it will say ‘launch.’ All you do is take your foot off the brake.”
That’s not how EV motors work. You don’t rev them. There’s not a neutral in the traditional sense of the word. If the motor is turning, the wheels are turning. If the wheels aren’t turning, the motor isn’t just sitting there idling. With some cars, there are ways to manipulate what’s actually happening by simulating the equivalent of dropping it into gear or popping the clutch, but there is no flooring it up to 6,000 RPM. That’s not how any of this works. If noise is coming out by pressing on the pedal with the brake on, the Vroom is a sound effect playing out of the car’s speaker system. It’s not coming from under the hood.
If you have any doubts why Hur came to the conclusion he did, all you have to do it read the transcript of the Biden interview. As bad as I can tell you it is, once you read it for yourself, you’ll draw the conclusion the President is not fit for office today, tomorrow, or ever again in the future.