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Biden will not be charged over top secret documents

by apapapa on 2/8/24, 9:56 PM with 13 comments

• by scohesc on 2/8/24, 10:29 PM

  Wonderful how society can elect people to represent a country that are like an "elderly man with a poor memory" - this goes for all sides politically.

  I guess this says something about the political parties who help decide who gets to run too. They don't respect people enough to run someone who would actually represent their country, just a warm butt in a seat is good enough, as long as the curtains don't get pulled back.

• by martin1b on 2/8/24, 10:40 PM

  This is hypocritical. Charge one man with a felony, raid his home, put his face all over TV...THEN.. don't charge another with the same thing because he's just an "elderly man with a poor memory".

• by legitster on 2/8/24, 11:15 PM

  > The special counsel's report says that it would be difficult to convict the president of improper handling of files because "at trial, Mr Biden would likely present himself to a jury, as he did during our interview of him, as a sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory".

  By all accounts he was interrogated for 5 hours, provided lots of details about documents he had misplaced a decade ago, and only seemed to forget some dates. Am I wrong to think that these lines in a report seem pretty unprofessional given this is a pretty typical outcome of any interrogation? Was his public perception under investigation?