If President Joe Biden’s lawyers had gotten their way, the public would never have glimpsed special counsel Robert Hur’s portrait of the commander in chief, last month, as a “well-meaning, elderly man with with poor memory.” On the eve of the prosecutor’s testimony to Congress, this week, the Washington Post reports that Biden’s legal team aggressively petitioned the Department of Justice, all the way to the top, to dump the devastating description before it was made public. First, they pressured Hur to delete the offending passages. Hur refused. Then, they went to the Department of Justice’s highest ranking career staffer, blasting the report as a blatant violation of department “policy and practice.” The career official disagreed. Attorney General Merrick Garland took a look, signed off, released the 345-page memo in its entirety, and all hell broke loose along with some of Biden’s marbles.

With polling showing that over six in ten Americans are gravely concerned about the president’s grey matter, the White House is in top spin mode. Two weeks ago, Biden’s White House doctor proclaimed the presidential patient a “healthy, active, robust, 81-year-old” who remains “fit for duty.” Last week, Biden delivered his State of the Union address with only one glaring glitch. Oval Office press flack Karine Jean-Pierre insists that her boss passes a “cognitive test everyday.” Unfortunately, he continues to fail in convincing the public.