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Biden's deeper amnesia

Biden's deeper amnesia

Will Democratic voters remember the Biden who promised to champion human rights or the one who has applied that pledge selectively?

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Elise Labott
Feb 10, 2024
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President Joe Biden's memory lapses about the president of Mexico may have become fodder for late-night banter, but his selective memory on human rights is no laughing matter.

That lapse isn't just a faux pas; it symbolizes a Freudian slip into his administration's deeper amnesia: forgetting the core values and lofty human rights promises Biden brought …

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