Dueling videos of Biden and Trump underscore efforts by both parties to highlight verbal gaffes

In dueling video presentations, Democrats and Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee aired videos of President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump in an effort to showcase verbal gaffes and faulty memories – and their ages.

The top Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee aired a video montage of recent moments during which Trump misremembered key facts. Included in the mashup was a clip of the former president from last year in which he incorrectly said Viktor Orbán, the prime minister of Hungary, was the prime minister of Turkey.

Another video showed Trump, in a taped video deposition from 2022, apparently struggling to remember what years he was married to a former wife.

“That is a man who is incapable of avoiding criminal liability. A man who is wholly unfit for office and a man who, at the very least, ought to think twice before accusing others of cognitive decline,” said Rep. Jerry Nadler, the committee’s ranking Democrat.

Earlier in the hearing, House Judiciary Chair Jim Jordan played a video of Biden responding to the Hur report and said it showed the president making statements that are “directly contradicted” by Hur’s investigation.

The Biden video also showed him having a verbal slip-up in which he mistakenly referred to Egypt’s president as the president of Mexico.