Phillips going to bat for Biden doesn’t win him any goodwill from Democrats

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Rep. Dean Phillips (D-MN) claimed he wanted “to really defend” President Joe Biden after special counsel Robert Hur‘s scathing report cast serious doubt on the president’s mental faculties.

Phillips made a round of television interviews after Biden’s competence was called into question by Hur, who referred to the president as “an elderly man” with “poor memory.”

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