Hi, Shrewd!        Login  
Shrewd'm.com 
A merry & shrewd investing community
Best Of PoliticsBest OfAll BoardsThe Shrewd’m WeeklyLearn to InvestHow to Become Shrewd
Search
Shrewd'm.com Merry shrewd investors
Search
Best Of PoliticsBest OfAll BoardsThe Shrewd’m WeeklyLearn to InvestHow to Become Shrewd


The week's question
In December 2024, in the thread "Re: BRK: Why Not XOM?", BreckHutHigh asked the members: "What about the long road trips with kids?" This week it is put to everyone again. The button below opens the small thread re-asking it - read what others have said so far, then give your own answer as an ordinary reply.
Answer this questionContinue to Shrewd'mThis note won't appear again
Halls of Shrewd'm / US Policy
Unthreaded | Threaded | Whole Thread (29) |
Author: Dope1   😊 😞
Number: of 84362 
Subject: Re: Biden too senile to charge over docs
Date: 02/08/24 5:12 PM
Post New | Post Reply | Report Post | Recommend It!
No. of Recommendations: 3
The actual report is here. It paints a bad picture of Biden's mental acuity:
justice.gov - Report from special counsel robert k hur february

However, for the reasons summarized below, we conclude that the evidence
does not establish Mr. Biden's guilt beyond a reasonable doubt. Prosecution of Mr.
Biden is also unwarranted based on our consideration of the aggravating and
mitigating factors set forth in the Department of Justice's Principles of Federal
Prosecution. For these reasons, we decline prosecution of Mr. Biden.


As the evidence always does...when you're a democrat.

Also, during his eight years as vice president, Mr. Eiden regularly wrote notes
by hand in notebooks. Some of these notes related to classified subjects, including the
President's Daily Brief and National Security Council meetings, and some of the
notes are themselves classified. After the vice presidency, Mr. Eiden kept these
2
classified notebooks in unsecured and unauthorized spaces at his Virginia and
Delaware homes and used some of the notebooks as reference material for his second
memoir, Promise Me, Dad, which was published in 2017. To our knowledge, no one
has identified any classified information published in Promise Me, Dad, but Mr.
Biden shared information, including some classified information, from those
notebooks with his ghostwriter. FBI agents recovered the notebooks from the office
and basement den in Mr. Biden's Delaware home in January 2023.


It's a crime to share classified information with outside parties, but whatever.

And here's the meat of it:

We have also considered that, at trial, Mr. Eiden 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. Based on our direct interactions with and
observations of him, he is someone for whom many jurors will want to identify
reasonable doubt. It would be difficult to convince a jury that they should convict
him-by then a former president well into his eighties-of a serious felony that
requires a mental state of willfulness.


In other words, Grandpa forgot that he left the keys to the nuclear bomber on the porch again because Grandpa forgets stuff.

At this point, being prosecuted by this version of the DOJ must be some kind of badge of honor.
Post New | Post Reply | Report Post | Recommend It!
Print the post
Members reply directly to Dope1 here — and replies get answered. Reading is free; so is joining the conversation. Join Shrewd'm »
This community has written 84,309 posts about US Policy. The article-length ones it recommended most:
It's going to get worse · 33 recs · 2025
G’day Donny · 30 recs · 2026
Old Related Story · 28 recs · 2026
HCR is a national treasure · 27 recs · 2025
Fascism in America · 27 recs · 2025
Unthreaded | Threaded | Whole Thread (29) |


Announcements
US Policy FAQ
Contact Shrewd'm
Contact the developer of these message boards.

Best Of Politics | Best Of | Favourites & Replies | All Boards | Followed Shrewds | Open Questions | Moving a community