Paul Begala, a former adviser to President Bill Clinton, joked Friday that he “wet the bed” over the findings in Special Counsel Robert Hur’s scathing report on President Biden’s handling of classified documents.
“Look, I’m a Biden supporter. And I slept like a baby last night. I get up every two hours and wet the bed,” quipped the Democratic strategist during an appearance on CNN.
Hur’s bombshell report asserts that Biden, 81, “intentionally withheld and disclosed classified material” but should not face criminal charges, in part because jurors may see the president as “an old man with failing memory.”
“This is terrible for the Democrats. And anyone with a functioning brain knows that,” Begala said of the 388-page report released Thursday.
Begala argued that Biden should focus on attacking Trump rather than trying to prove that his memory is not failing him. Politico
After the report was dropped, Biden lashed out at reporters and the Republican special counsel in a speech delivered at the White House, in which he declared, “I know what I’m doing” and “my memory is fine.”
Begala, a former chief strategist for the 1992 Clinton-Gore campaign, argued that Biden should have taken a different tack.
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“Instead of calling a press conference and saying, ‘I’m really sharp,’ you attack the other guy,” he explained.
“I remember he was the vice president and he said, ‘Don’t compare us to the Almighty, compare us to the alternative.’ So everything with Biden has to be not ‘I’m great,’ but ‘the other guy is really destructive, dangerous, a threat.’”
The special counsel wrote that “Biden’s memory seems hazy” when he interviewed the president last October. MICHAEL REYNOLDS/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock
“This is going to be a very rough, ugly, unpleasant campaign,” Begala predicted of the expected general election rematch between Biden and former President Donald Trump.
“They need to tell Democrats, ‘Look, vote for old people, support old people, that’s important,'” he said of the Biden campaign’s proper approach.
Beglala also suggested that Biden should make more public statements by November, even if he is prone to mistakes.
“I want to see more Joe Biden – a built-in gap,” he argued. “But instead of just saying, ‘I’m fine,’ he just had to go on the attack – 24/7 for the next 269 days.”
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