For describing President Biden in his report as a “well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory,” Special Counsel Robert K. Hur was painted by Democratic Party loyalists as an uncaring, ambitious prosecutor with political animus. It started at the top.

The same week Joe Biden publicly confused two European leaders with their deceased predecessors and passed on the traditional softball Super Bowl Sunday interview, a new report from Special Counsel Robert Hur described the president as “a sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory.”