Jill Biden Enters The (Biden Is Old) Chat

This, all of this, from The First Lady Dr. Jill Biden, to the campaign's mailing list:

I’ve heard from so many of you asking about the Special Counsel's report this week. Thank you for your love and support.

You probably know the basics: Joe cooperated fully with a Special Counsel’s investigation and they found he did nothing wrong -- no criminal charges were warranted. I thought Heather Cox Richardson wrote about it eloquently here.

The reason I’m writing is because of what else was in the report: Inaccurate and personal political attacks about Joe. Rather than just saying the case was closed, as they have for others, the Special Counsel claimed that Joe “couldn’t remember the year his son died.” Believe me, like anyone who has lost a child, Beau and his death never leave him.

I hope you can imagine how it felt to read that attack -- not just as Joe’s wife, but as Beau’s mother.

I don’t know what this Special Counsel was trying to achieve. We should give everyone grace, and I can’t imagine someone would try to use our son’s death to score political points. If you’ve experienced a loss like that, you know that you don’t measure it in years -- you measure it in grief.

May 30th is a day forever etched on our hearts. It shattered me, it shattered our family.

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