Post by the Scribe on Feb 29, 2024 16:44:24 GMT
Republicans have long been trying to push a narrative that Biden is downright senile — that his mental functioning is much worse than we know, that he’s certainly much worse than Trump, and that the White House has been trying desperately to cover this up. Biden’s poor memory or verbal mix-ups are similar to verbal flubs Trump has publicly made in recent months.
Trump has said either that Barack Obama is president or that he had run against Obama for the presidency at least seven times, according to Forbes’s Sara Dorn.
Trump mixed up Nikki Haley and Nancy Pelosi, claiming Haley was in charge of security at the US Capitol on January 6, 2021.
During a deposition, Trump identified a picture of E. Jean Carroll, who accused him of rape, as a picture of his ex-wife Marla Maples.
When Biden does an interview and it goes just fine, it gets little attention. But if there is any verbal flub or mix-up, it goes viral as purported proof of Biden’s decline.
Both of our presidential nominees-in-waiting are inexact speakers of advanced age who get mixed up on the facts. They’re also the nominees-in-waiting we have — and there’s no clear path to replacing either of them.
www.vox.com/politics/2024/2/8/24066529/biden-special-counsel-report-memory