Last night I saw that a special council reported that current US president Joe Biden was unable to remember things like when he was VP, the date of his son's death and perhaps other things. The decided that they could not prosecute because a jury would be sympathetic to Biden't frailties and perhaps the prosecution would not be able to show criminal intent.
There are a few things about this. Disregarding the actual alleged crime, the report means one of three things must be the case:
1) Biden's legal team purposely went about having their client appear as demented as possible in order to give the DOJ a good reason to decline to prosecute. In other words, they are using a form of the insanity plea that some lawyers will use to get their client off while knowing full well their client is fine.
2) The Special Council made all of this up in order to, once again, provide cover for not prosecuting Biden. This would be like what happened with Clinton where the facts as known by the DOJ were enough to prosecute but they declined based on some made up "intent" explanation.
3) Biden is in fact that far gone.
That Biden was, that same day put out in front of the press, suggests that item one is a strong likelihood. I've already pointed out that Biden is, at minimum in the early stages of Alzheimer's. I didn't think he'd get past year one because I thought Dems had more decency than that. So here we are in 2024. That Biden mixed up two leaders and colors is not a big deal. Seriously. The image painted by the prosecutor would have us expecting far worse a performance.
Item three brings many important questions to mind, first of which is, who exactly is running the country. Clearly Biden would be a figurehead who does what he is told by whoever is wielding the actual power. This is, how do they say it? Undemocratic. Whoever would be wielding actual power was not elected by the people to do so. Nor were they elevated to such a position through constitutional means.
Secondly, If Biden is that far gone, there should be calls and moves to invoke the 25th Amendment. We know that such a move was considered for Trump. Those responsible and empowered to do this would be shirking their constitutional duty by allowing Biden to continue as president.
If item one is the case, then Biden's own performance and claims to the contrary would and should be enough for the prosecutor to reverse his decision (assuming that is possible), I don't see how that triggers double jeopardy since Biden was never charged with a crime to begin with. Of course that would presume that item two is not true (as well).
However it turns out, the report would provide cover for the DNC should they decide to replace Biden on the ballot for 2024.
