Following the special counsel’s report calling the President an “elderly man with a poor memory,” Dhruv Khullar writes about concerns regarding Joe Biden’s and Donald Trump’s fitness for office during the 2024 campaign.
Biden’s supporters saw the language as a gratuitous partisan attack, a speculative salvo far outside the prosecutor’s purview; his lawyers said it was “highly prejudicial.” Clearly sensing the precarity of the moment, the White House called a press conference at which Biden forcefully disputed Hur’s characterization. A few minutes later, though, in answering a question about hostage negotiations in Israel, he referred to Egypt’s President as the leader of Mexico.
Whereas the former leads to minor and occasional lapses—where’s my phone? when’s his birthday?—the latter indicates a more significant limitation, and, in a third of cases, progresses to Alzheimer’s disease within five years. These determinations are rendered through a battery of neuropsychiatric tests and a series of careful conversations with patients and their families—not on cable news or by special counsels.
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