Throughout Biden’s presidency, many Americans have voiced concerns about the president’s age and the state of his mental faculties amid prevalent signs of decline. Conservatives on social media often cited evidence of this, which some claim was demonstrated through Biden erratically raising his voice during speeches when trying to emphasize a point.
In one such incident from earlier this year, President Biden attempted to highlight Vice President Kamala Harris’ strengths as the second-in-charge on gun violence. Biden said, “This is where Kamala is so good as well. We’re sitting around… more children are killed by a bullet. Than any other cause of death in the United States of America.” The president questioned, “What the hell are we doing, what are we doing?”
As expected, the clip from the speech sparked a substantial reaction on social media, where conservative users raised concerns about Biden’s mental health in light of the shouting episode, and others disputed the rhetoric he was pushing on guns. Sharing the clip, RNC Research claimed that Biden was “not well” after he started “randomly screaming.”
One person contested the rhetoric from the president, writing, “I’ll just leave this here…Heart disease is the leading cause of death in the United States, accounting for more than half of all deaths in 2023. In 2022, 702,880 people died from heart disease. Other leading causes of death in 2022 included: Cancer: 608,371 deaths Unintentional injuries: 227,039 deaths COVID-19: 186,552 deaths Stroke: 165,393 deaths Chronic lower respiratory diseases: 147,382 deaths.”
The American Tribune previously reported on the findings from Special Counsel Robert Hur, which shed light on the worrying state of Biden’s cognitive abilities during an investigation into his handling of classified documents. The report detailed a troubling portrayal of the president’s mental state, that fueled the concerns of many Americans.
In the report, Hur said, “We have also considered that, at trial, Mr. Biden 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 . . . 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.”
Another part of it provided, “In his interview with our office, Mr. Biden’s memory was worse. He did not remember when he was vice president, forgetting on the first day of the interview when his term ended (“if it was 2013 – when did I stop being Vice President?”), and forgetting on the second day of the interview when his term began (“in 2009, am I still Vice President?”), He did not remember, even within several years, when his son Beau died. And his memory appeared hazy when describing the Afghanistan debate that was once so important to him. Among other things, he mistakenly said he “had a real difference” of opinion with General Karl Eikenberry, when, in fact, Eikenberry was an ally whom Mr. Biden cited approvingly in his Thanksgiving memo to President Obama. In a case where the government must prove that Mr. Biden knew he had possession of the classified Afghanistan documents after the vice presidency and chose to keep those documents, knowing he was violating the law, we expect that at trial, his attorneys would emphasize these limitations in his recall.”
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