A Bad Day for Biden
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Yesterday was rough for President Joe Biden. A blistering special-counsel report cleared him of the threat of charges in his classified-documents case, in part because prosecutors expected that he’d present to a jury as a “sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory.” Then Biden held a press conference about the report—and mixed up two world leaders. All of this is bringing to the fore an issue that Biden has tried to push aside: his age.
I spoke with my colleague David Graham, who covers politics, about how last night’s slipup fits into Biden’s long history of gaffes, and how both the special-counsel investigation and the press conference could affect his campaign.
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