The Worst Day of Biden’s Presidency

Classified Docs and the Curse of Pity

Screenshot from White House Speech

It is difficult to imagine a worse day for Joe Biden than February 8th, 2024.

There is no version of Robert Hur’s report on Biden’s mishandling of classified documents, which dropped two days ago, more damaging than the one we got. Hur could have recommended prosecution, impeachment, execution for treason, and none of it would have been worse.

Here’s the report. The executive summary is 15 pages: that’s all 99% of people are going to actually read, myself included. Here’s the Washington Post’s takeaway. It’s accurate enough, and the most generous interpretation you’re likely to find in MSM.

Here’s what I got out of it:

The Good

Let’s start with things that aren’t terrible for Biden in this report:

• The report highlights Biden’s opposition to Obama’s Afghanistan troop surge. He was right about that war, and he was right early. A reminder is always nice.
• Biden was authorized to keep these classified documents in his home while he was President. This is very different from the Mar-a-Lago common areas where Trump stored his classified documents: a place those documents should never have been stored, at any point.
• The report points out that…