{"id":1944199,"date":"2023-06-05T09:35:02","date_gmt":"2023-06-05T13:35:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/days-after-bidens-brutal-fall-dem-rep-has-mind-boggling-defense-of-his-age\/"},"modified":"2023-06-05T09:36:10","modified_gmt":"2023-06-05T13:36:10","slug":"days-after-bidens-brutal-fall-dem-rep-has-mind-boggling-defense-of-his-age","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/days-after-bidens-brutal-fall-dem-rep-has-mind-boggling-defense-of-his-age\/","title":{"rendered":"Dem Rep. Defends Biden&#8217;s Age After Fall"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdays-after-bidens-brutal-fall-dem-rep-has-mind-boggling-defense-of-his-age%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1944199&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Democratic Rep. Jamie Raskin&#8217;s Mind-Boggling Defense of Biden&#8217;s Age<\/h2>\n<p>Democratic Rep. Jamie Raskin of Maryland has been the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/witch-hunt-mueller-prosecutor-says-trump-could-face-charges-after-pardons\/\" title=\"WITCH HUNT: Mueller Prosecutor Says Trump Could Face Charges After Pardons\">lead prosecutor<\/a> in former President Donald Trump\u2019s second <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/schumer-calls-for-trump-to-be-immediately-removed-from-office-by-impeachment-or-25th-amendment\/\" title=\"Schumer Calls for Trump to be \u201cImmediately Removed From Office\u201d by Impeachment or 25th Amendment\">impeachment trial<\/a> and a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/abbott-signs-heartbeat-bill-allowing-texans-to-sue-abortion-providers\/\" title=\"Abbott Signs \u2018Heartbeat\u2019 Bill Allowing Texans To Sue Abortion Providers\">constitutional law professor<\/a> at American University in D.C., so it\u2019s fair to say he\u2019s a respected lawyer \u2014 at least on the left.<\/p>\n<p>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, \u201cWell, in some countries, they\u00a0<em>respect<\/em> really old leaders,\u201d there\u2019s an issue.<\/p>\n<p>Raskin made the remarks Sunday on CNN\u2019s \u201cState of the Union,\u201d 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 \u201csmoking gun\u201d that he didn\u2019t declassify the documents he was storing at Mar-a-Lago when the FBI raided last summer. That\u2019s a whole separate can of worms and, if you need to see the House Democratic Caucus\u2019 most prominent Trump-grumbler grouse about the former president some more, go for it.<\/p>\n<h3>Ageism or Wisdom?<\/h3>\n<p>Toward the end of the interview, however, Bash got around to asking Raskin <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/left-tries-compare-biden-fall-gerald-ford-slip-video-proves-nothing-alike\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">about Biden\u2019s fall<\/a> at the U.S. Air Force Academy\u2019s graduation ceremony in Colorado Springs on Thursday:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">I hope President Biden is uninjured from this fall which dramatically and further illustrates his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/age-related-cognitive-decline-former-wh-doctor-talks-biden-says-obama-wrote-him-scathing-email-over-betrayal\/\" title=\"\u2018Age-Related Cognitive Decline\u2019: Former WH Doctor Talks Biden, Says Obama Wrote Him \u2018Scathing\u2019 Email Over \u2018Betrayal\u2019\">age-related cognitive<\/a> and physical challenges. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/4XM7fKm1H3\">pic.twitter.com\/4XM7fKm1H3<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Tom Fitton (@TomFitton) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TomFitton\/status\/1664361862346022914?\">June 1, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cYou also, as a politician, know about how events feed into a perception that already exists,\u201d Bash said. \u201cQuestions 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?\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/fbi-waves-white-flag-will-bring-biden-bribery-memo-lawmakers-see\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Raskin<\/a> began by framing the very thought as a question of ageism, noting that \u201cAmerica is a country that loves youth and vitality.\u201d But in other places, he implied, citizens are more enlightened!<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Democrat Rep. Jamie Raskin on Biden\u2019s age:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn a lot of countries, people who\u2019ve been in office a longer period of time are praised for their wisdom, and I think that Joe Biden rightly says that he has grown<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>former President Trump&#8217;s actions is &#8220;I&#8217;m not a criminal defense lawyer,&#8221; it&#8217;s not a good sign for the defense. Rep. Raskin&#8217;s expertise in constitutional law and role as lead prosecutor in the impeachment trial make his statement significant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":663,"featured_media":1944200,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[548],"tags":[8808,3706,4549,6244,8859,7129],"class_list":["post-1944199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conservative-news-daily","tag-age","tag-bidens","tag-defends","tag-dem","tag-fall","tag-rep"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1944199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/663"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1944199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1944199\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1944200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1944199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1944199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1944199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}