Dean Phillips says Democrats should ‘face the truth’
- Rep. Dean Phillips, President Joe Biden’s only outstanding Democratic primary challenger, said the election ‘all but handed’ to former President Donald Trump
- Phillips was responding to Special Counsel Robert Hur’s damning report that called Biden a ‘well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory’
- The longshot candidate has centered his campaign on warning fellow Democrats that Biden is too old to win a second term
DAILY MAIL
Rep. Dean Phillips, President Joe Biden‘s sole Democratic primary challenger, said Thursday’s Department of Justice report ‘all but handed’ the 2024 election to former President Donald Trump.
The 388-page eye-popping report from Special Counsel Robert Hur confirmed that Biden would not be charged for keeping classified documents in his garage.
But it also said that it was because a jury would probably conclude Biden had ‘diminished faculties’ and was a ‘well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory.’
Phillips, a Minnesota Democrat, launched his presidential campaign in October after spending months sounding the alarm that Biden was too old to win a second term.
‘The report simply affirms what most Americans already know, that the president cannot continue to serve as our Commander-in-Chief beyond his term ending January 20, 2025,’ Phillips said in a statement to DailyMail.com.
Earlier this week, Phillips pushed back at critics who have expressed dismay that Phillips would point out the 81-year-old president’s advanced age and question his fitness for office.
‘I’m attacked for being honest and saying the quiet part out loud – the part D.C. insiders only do in private,’ Phillips said in a post on X Tuesday.
‘But shame on all of you pretending everything is OK,’ he said. ‘You are leading us – and him – into a disaster, and you damn well know it.’
In his post, Phillips included two recent videos of the president.
The first showed Biden campaigning Sunday in Las Vegas, where he accidentally said the name of French President Francois Mitterrand, who died in 1996, instead of the country’s current leader, President Emmanuel Macron.
In the second video, taken Tuesday, Biden calls Hamas ‘the opposition’ before remembering the terror group’s name as he was asked by reporters about a brewing deal to get back Israeli hostages from Gaza.
Even before the report’s release Thursday, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre was peppered with questions about why Biden kept messing up names and about his overall health.
On Thursday evening, Biden angrily addressed the contents of Hur’s report, telling reporters, ‘I know what the hell I’m doing! My memory has not gotten worse. My memory is fine. Take a look at what I have done since becoming president.’
‘No one thought I could pass any of the things I got passed. How did that happen? I guess I just forgot what was going on,’ the president added.
But before the end of his Q&A, Biden made another gaffe – referring to Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi as the ‘president of Mexico.’
Phillips said the report marked ‘another sad day for American and particularly for President Biden and his family.’
