Special Counsel Robert K. Hur’s report, in which he declined to prosecute President Biden for his handling of classified documents, also included a much-debated assessment of Mr. Biden’s cognitive abilities.
Biden would likely present himself to a jury, as he did during our interview with him, as a sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory.”As an expert on memory, I can assure you that everyone forgets.
Broadly speaking, memory functions begin to decline in our 30s and continue to fade into old age.
However, age in and of itself doesn’t indicate the presence of memory deficits that would affect an individual’s ability to perform in a demanding leadership role.
And an apparent memory lapse may or may not be consequential depending on the reasons it occurred.
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