Days After Biden’s Brutal Fall, Dem Rep. Has Mind-Boggling Defense of His Age

Democratic Rep. Jamie Raskin of Maryland has been the lead prosecutor in former President 👤Donald Trump’s second impeachment trial and a constitutional law professor at American University in D.C., so it’s fair to say he’s a respected lawyer — at least on the left.

Thus, if the best excuse he can come up with for President 👤Joe Biden after his well-publicized fall on Thursday could be paraphrased as, “Well, in some countries, they respect really old leaders,” there’s an issue.

Raskin made the remarks Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union,” where he devoted most of his time to trying to convince host Dana Bash (and CNN viewers) that audio recordings of former President Trump provide a “smoking gun” that he didn’t declassify the documents he was storing at Mar-a-Lago when the FBI raided last summer. That’s a whole separate can of worms and, if you need to see the House Democratic Caucus’ most prominent Trump-grumbler grouse about the former president some more, go for it.

Toward the end of the interview, however, Bash got around to asking Raskin about Biden’s fall at the U.S. Air Force Academy’s graduation ceremony in Colorado Springs on Thursday:

“You also, as a politician, know about how events feed into a perception that already exists,” Bash said. “Questions about his age are already there. Are voters wrong to be worried about re-electing a man who would be closer to 90 at the end of his second term than 80?”