As RedState previously reported, the Hur report was an absolutely damning assessment of President Joe Biden's handling of classified documents during his time as a private citizen, with what was even more humiliating for Biden being the issues brought up by special counsel Robert Hur about Biden's memory lapses, which according to Hur go back as early as 2017, when Biden was 74.

To recap before we get to the comments from Scott Jennings, here's some of what Hur, who was appointed by DOJ Attorney General Merrick Garland in November 2022, said about Biden forgetting things:

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. 

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In addition. Mr. Biden's memory was significantly limited, both during his recorded interviews with the ghostwriter in 2017, and in his interview with our office in 2023. 

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Mr. Biden's memory also appeared to have significant limitations-both at the time he spoke to Zwonitzer in 2017, as evidenced by their recorded conversations, and today, as evidenced by his recorded interview with our office. Mr. Biden's recorded conversations with Zwonitzer from 2017 are often painfully slow, with Mr. Biden struggling to remember events and straining at times to read and relay his own notebook entries.

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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.

Unfortunately for Joe Biden, not only was the report bad news for him in a pivotal presidential election year, but the way he responded to it with his disastrous impromptu presser, where he angrily denounced Hur, yelled at reporters, and then confused the names of world leaders (again), only made it so much worse. 

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Over at CNN, where legal analysts were busy causing more media/Dem panic by pointing out the criminal aspects of the report, Republican political strategist/commentator Scott Jennings nailed exactly why an indictment, as troublesome as it would be, in reality would have been better for Joe Biden than Hur's brutal appraisal of Biden's age and memory woes:

JENNINGS: It would've been better off for Joe Biden to have been indicted today than what this report turned out. The way --

[CNN's ERIN] BURNETT: You say politically?

JENNINGS: Yes. The number one thing, the number one anvil on the head of this campaign is the American people do not believe he has the mental acuity to serve as president today or for four more years? An independent third party comes along and says, he can't remember when he was vice president. He can't remember when his own son passed away, and I can't take this man in front of a jury because he'd be too sympathetic because he's too old and forgetful and the jury would find that to be sympathetic.

This was politically devastating and indictment would have been far better.

There was, of course, pushback from the Biden apologists sitting all around Jennings, but a point he made later added an extra exclamation point to the disturbing picture painted by Hur of Biden's mental acuity.

"...the day he did his interview, it was the day after the Israel-Hamas War started," Jennings noted. "So, you're telling me that the president's mental faculties are mostly diminished when he's dealing with a crisis? This is vital -- this is vital information."

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.@ScottJenningsKY, straight 🔥: "It would have been better off to have Joe Biden indicted today...The number one thing--the number one anvil on the head of this campaign is the American people do not believe he has the mental acuity to serve as president today or for four more… pic.twitter.com/GKMWYGxAIH

— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) February 9, 2024

To be fair, very few people would look at an indictment as a "better" option for themselves or their loved ones than a damning report on their actions. But on this case, Jennings is right, because at least with an indictment, Biden could fight the classified document allegations in a court of law.

But you can't fight perceptions about your mental acuity in a court of law.  And even if you could, when your every appearance in public including the one you made to counter the claims about your memory goes badly, it sort of proves the point.

Jennings is right: Biden would have been better off getting indicted in this case rather than having to try and counter the elephant in the room about his age and fitness to lead. Voters have consistently shown since the first year he was in office that they have concerns about those issues. And the findings from the special counsel, who again was appointed by Biden's handpicked Attorney Gen. Merrick Garland,  would seem to emphatically underscore that those concerns are entirely justified.

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