Joe Biden confuses Mexico and Egypt during a press conference after the special counsel questioned his memory

 

Joe Biden.

Joe Biden confused Mexico and Egypt during a press conference trying to downplay his memory issues after a special counsel report. BBC. The inquiry found that Biden had willfully retained classified documents but did not result in charges. However, the report found that Biden had significant memory issues and was not able to recall when he served as Vice President or when his son Beau Biden died. Biden angrily denied that he didn't remember his son's death and claimed he was distracted by the October 7th attacks in Gaza. Biden gave a press conference to try and defend himself and said that President Sisi of Egypt was actually the President of Mexico... 

   

Joe Biden just declared that Mexico is on the border of Gaza pic.twitter.com/RrlAosfQ00

— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) February 9, 2024

 

My Comment:

I watched this press conference live since I though after the report there was a real chance of Joe Biden resigning. Instead I watched one of the most shocking speeches I had ever seen. Not only did Biden convince me that he was in no way capable of being president of anything, but he also showed a lot of cowardice trying to blame his own staff over the secret documents scandal. 

Should Biden have faced charges? Probably not. Because every president and VP has some classified materials in their homes. Trump did and so did Mike Pence. And I am sure if Obama, Clinton, Bush and Carter had their homes searched they would have found the same thing. 

Of course with Donald Trump facing ridiculous charges for similar things, there is an obvious double standard here. Trump holding onto secret material is fine because he was President and could declassify anything he wanted. Biden was a Vice President and did not have the authority. But either way Biden should have been charged if Trump was charged. 

None of that matters now because nobody cares about the secret documents story anymore. The real story is that the special counsel basically said that he couldn't get a conviction on Joe Biden because his mental acuity is so low that the jury would feel bad for him and let him off. He said he could remember when he was Vice President or when his son died. Given how angry he was about the latter accusation and how often he misstates the cause of Beau Biden's death (he died of cancer, not in Iraq) I think there is truth to it. 

But Biden's response? It was beyond terrible. Even when he was just reading his prepared statement he got weird as he started to angerly whisper when talking about his son. And his answers to questions were rambling and unclear. He was snarky with a reporter and generally put out a poor performance. 

The real disaster was the last question. Biden had already left the podium and was about to leave when he inexplicably decided to answer a question about Gaza. And then after stuttering for a very uncomfortable amount of time he said that President Sisi of Egypt was the President of Mexico. In any other context it might be a bit more forgivable but in this context? It was about the worst thing he could have done. People make wrong statements all the time but not only did Biden do it during a press conference that was called to try and defend his mental faculties, he also didn't even notice it happened! It was a disaster. 

Far from distancing himself from accusations that Joe Biden is unable to serve as president, those accusations are going to be stronger than ever. Biden simply isn't the man he once was and if anyone actually bothers to watch this speech it's going to hurt him and hurt him bad. 

I do have to wonder how many of Biden's handlers had heart attacks when he went back to the podium to answer an unauthorized question. They had to know that Biden hadn't prepared for it and was speaking of the cuff, which is where things tend to go wrong with them. I am guessing they are the reason that the feed was cut off right after Biden answered the question. 

This story is going to drown out what otherwise would have been a huge news day. Tucker Carlson interviewed Vladimir Putin, Zelensky replaced his war leader, the Supreme Court heard the challenge to Trump's ballot access. And none of those stories matter now. Now everyone will be talking about how senile Biden is and how he had yet another "Biden moment". 

There are, of course, questions about Trump's mental fitness as well, given that he is fairly old too. But even on his worse day Trump is not anywhere near as bad as Biden has been. Trump is still high energy, sharp and able to keep up with reporter questions. Biden is not. So if you care about mental competence at all, you absolutely have to vote against Biden this November. 

Finally, I don't think this was some kind of planned thing by his handlers so that Joe Biden would be replaced. A lot of people are claiming this on social media, but it makes no sense to me. Biden is running to keep what is left of his good name and to keep Hunter Biden out of prison. Indeed, I think his handlers tried to prevent this but he insisted because he was so angry. But I think the calls for him to drop out will grow even more shrill after this...