{"id":99985,"date":"2024-02-11T15:20:57","date_gmt":"2024-02-11T21:20:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=99985"},"modified":"2024-02-11T15:20:57","modified_gmt":"2024-02-11T21:20:57","slug":"99985","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=99985","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

Did You Notice What\u2019s Missing in Jill Biden\u2019s Statement on the Hur Report?<\/a><\/p>\n

Team Biden\u2019s handling of the Hur report has not gone well. Someone either decided Joe Biden should address the nation in a speech and to answer questions after his bedtime, or failed to convince Biden not to. Experts on both sides of the aisle are panning Biden\u2019s evening speech as not being helpful to his cause, and they\u2019re right.<\/p>\n

Now, the Biden campaign is literally trying to fundraise off of \u201coutrage\u201d over the report. The campaign sent out an email Saturday night with a statement from Jill Biden.<\/p>\n

Generally speaking, there is nothing new in this statement we haven\u2019t already heard\u2014except for the fact that it includes a detail Joe Biden apparently couldn\u2019t recall: when his son Beau died.<\/p>\n

“I hope you can imagine how it felt to read that attack — not just as Joe’s wife, but as Beau’s mother,\u201d the fundraising\u00a0pitch<\/a>\u00a0began. “I don’t know what this Special Counsel was trying to achieve. We should give everyone grace, and I can’t imagine someone would use our son’s death to score political points. If you’ve experienced a loss like that, you don’t measure it in years, you measure it in grief.”<\/p>\n

I suspect that whoever wrote this pitch for Jill Biden didn\u2019t know that Jill Biden wasn\u2019t actually Beau Biden\u2019s mother.<\/p>\n

But I digress\u2014the report wasn\u2019t an attack. Legally, it was a gift, and Biden and his team have been regularly cherry-picking select quotes to support the claim that he did nothing wrong\u2014even though that\u2019s not what the report actually said. Biden and his team are trying to contain the political fallout of the investigation\u2019s assessment of Biden’s cognitive decline. This isn\u2019t attacking Joe, or Beau. As Hans von Spakovsky, a former federal election commissioner and senior legal fellow at the Heritage Foundation,\u00a0explained<\/a>, \u201cAn explanation of Hur\u2019s findings on the president\u2019s mental condition was necessary to explain why he is not recommending prosecution.\u201d<\/p>\n

The pitch continued:<\/p>\n

May 30th is a day forever etched on our hearts. It shattered me, it shattered our family.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

So many of you know that feeling after you lose a loved one, where you feel like you can’t get off the floor. What helped me, and what helped Joe, was to find purpose. That’s what keeps Joe going, serving you and the country we love.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Joe is 81, that’s true, but he’s 81 doing more in an hour than most people do in a day. Joe has wisdom, empathy and vision. He has delivered on so many of his promises as President precisely because he’s learned a lot in those 81 years. His age, with his experience and expertise, is an incredible asset and he proves it every day.<\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

What really sticks out about this pitch is that there isn\u2019t a denial of anything in the report. It doesn\u2019t dispute that Joe couldn\u2019t remember when he was vice president or when his son died. In fact, it almost reads like an excuse letter by reiterating the debilitating loss of a loved one, and then by insisting that he does \u201cmore an hour than most people do in a day,\u201d as if to suggest that we need to give him some slack because he works so hard. Now, I wouldn\u2019t doubt that Biden takes more vacations in a year than most Americans do in a lifetime, but that\u2019s not the same thing.<\/p>\n

We know this because we see it.<\/p>\n

We see Biden has the schedule of someone who is taking it easy, and is staying out of sight as much as he can get away with. But, not once in the pitch does Jill even attempt to dispute the report by saying Joe Biden is sharp or has a great memory. If she did, there\u2019d be no reason not to charge him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Did You Notice What\u2019s Missing in Jill Biden\u2019s Statement on the Hur Report? Team Biden\u2019s handling of the Hur report has not gone well. Someone either decided Joe Biden should address the nation in a speech and to answer questions after his bedtime, or failed to convince Biden not to. Experts on both sides of … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crap-for-brains","category-you-cant-make-this-up"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99985","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=99985"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99985\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":99986,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99985\/revisions\/99986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=99985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=99985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=99985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}