Special Counsel Robert Hur's recent report on Joe Biden's handling of classified documents recommends not bringing any charges against the president because no court would convict an "sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory."
Nicholas Fondacaro of Media Research Center (MRC) says when the report was released, it was like 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue sent a memo to the news networks.
White House Press Secretary Karin Jean-Pierre led by example with the claim that "President Biden does more in one hour than most people do in a day."
MSNBC's Molly Jong-Fast was quick to point out that Hur is "not a neurologist" and accused him of drawing conclusions that "were not his to draw."
Former White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany, however, called the hours that followed the report's release one of the best news cycles for President Trump and one of the worst for Biden. Trump, she noticed, was calm, measured, and concerned about the American people, while Biden was "angry, defiant, [and] defensive" about himself, not the country.
Joe Scarborough tried to flip the script on Trump, whom he claimed loses it on stage "over and over and over again." He also compared Biden's memory to his own, saying if he were asked in a deposition what year his own mother died, he would not be able to say for sure.
Relatability trumps securityIn an attempt to relate with young voters, the Biden campaign has joined TikTok. The problem is the app has been banned for federal employees in most states for its Beijing-based parent company's links to the Communist Chinese Party. In March of last year, President Joe Biden's own White House ordered all federal employees to remove the app from their devices. But roughly 33 million 20-29-year-olds in the U.S. use the app, and in an election year for a president with historically bad poll numbers, that opportunity was too tempting to pass up. Attorney Jenna Ellis is not surprised. 
"Isn't it just typical that Biden doesn't care about any of the rules or connections to the Chinese Communist Party? He'll just do whatever he wants to skirt and bend all of the rules and policies to try to go after voters," she responds. On the other hand, she says, what's good for the donkey is good for the elephant. "Honestly, I don't think this is a bad strategy," Ellis admits. "The reality is a lot of young people are on TikTok, and if conservatives and Republicans fail to use that platform as an outreach to young voters, I think that we are actually missing a huge opportunity." "There's nothing inherently immoral about a campaign going on TikTok as a platform," she adds. State bans on TikTok only affect government employees and do not prohibit civilians from having or using the app on their personal devices. |
Noting that 86% of Americans believe Joe Biden is too old for a second presidential term, Fox's Greg Gutfeld took time to praise the president for finally fulfilling his campaign promise to unify the country.
"This is a kumbaya moment," he declared. "This is our national anthem."
He also gave the White House props for protecting Biden "like a Fabergé egg" and keeping him president for this long.
"You hear them parroting the White House talking points of 'gratuitous information' [and] 'the special counsel should not have included this language,'" Fondacaro relays about the mainstream news outlets' response.
He thinks they are missing the plot entirely.
"They see it as, once again, this messaging problem," the watchdog observes. "'What is the White House going to do to assuage these concerns of the voters?'"
He thinks they know the score, but they have been conditioned to protect Democrats.
"They probably know that these things are really going on with Biden, but some of them definitely think it's too late in the game to swap anybody else," Fondacaro poses. "So, we have to deal with what we have with Biden."
But a conservative activist and former presidential candidate thinks there could be a real scramble in the party if Joe Biden is compelled to drop out of the 2024 presidential race, as there are growing calls for him to do.
"If he announces that he's not running for reelection, then you have in the next five months a donnybrook of amazing proportions in the Democrat Party," predicts Gary Bauer, chairman of the Campaign for Working Families.
The vice-president, for example, has already said she is ready to serve.
"Kamala Harris is going to think that she's obviously the next one in line," says Bauer. "Gavin Newsom is going to make his shot at it. Would Senator Manchin (D-West Virginia) think that rather than third party, he ought to try for the nomination of a divided Democrat Party?"
The more people who throw their hats in the ring, he says the more it will cost the Democrats. And that "runs the real risk that they will limp into the fall a deeply divided party."
