I am well-meaning, and I’m an elderly man, and I know what the hell I’m doing.
—President Biden, 8 Feb.
"Even Trump and some of his advisers ... were taken aback at how negative [the Hur report] was, wondering if there was some ulterior motive, one Trump adviser said."
—The Washington Post, 9 Feb.
It's impossible to say how Trump could be more vicious than he is toward Special Counsel Jack Smith since his viciousness has already exceeded past conceivability. But without question the ex-president and fourfold criminal defendant would grow more fangs and spit newfound venom at Smith had the special counsel observed in his indictments that Trump, in addition to being a seditionist and thief, is suffering from mental decline.
And we would not be taken aback at the defendant's innovative malevolence. That is who he is.
Which is as far from who President Biden is as the most distant galaxy. It is possible to imagine what he thinks of Special Counsel Robert Hur, thoughts full of four-letter words. Yet those he keeps private. Biden would no more step to a lectern and unleash a litany of profane pejoratives at Hur than Trump could step up and deliver a learned discourse on Aristotelian logic or Elizabethan plays.
The cause of this personality difference is simple. Donald Trump is a common guttersnipe, while Joe Biden is a gentleman, a gentleman with class.
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