The Political Assassination of Joe Biden

We saw it happen in the summer before Hillary Clinton’s run for US president. James Comey said she was guilty of a crime but he couldn’t indict her: But then he reopened the case against her days before the election in 2016. What was he thinking?

Looks like it’s happened again.

The pyrotechnics were delivered on Thursday afternoon in the findings of special counsel Robert Hur’s investigation into Joe Biden’s handling of classified documents after he left the vice-presidency in 2017.

The top-line conclusion was that the president would not face criminal charges for his actions, despite evidence that he had “wilfully retained and disclosed classified materials… when he was a private citizen”.

The bottom line was much more damaging. Among the reasons Mr Hur listed for why he had decided not to prosecute the 81-year-old president was because he would likely be a sympathetic figure to a jury who would view him as a “well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory”.

BBC

That last phrase is the nail in Biden’s political coffin.

Post Script

To demonstrate that there are no ‘accidents’ in respect of political moves, here’s the chart for the first news report of what Robert Hur wrote, yesterday:

Notice that everything is above the horizon (except, obviously, the South Node). This is not personal, this is politics. There is one inconjunct.

Sun Inconjunct Ascendant

You may find that no matter how hard you try to show others who you really are, they misunderstand you somehow. You are not intentionally dishonest with the world, you simply present a confusing complex of energies.

Ain’t that the truth!