The White House’s response to the fire threatening Biden’s reelection campaign — and even his presidency — was to bathe him in kerosene and send him walking into the flames. ...

There’s little doubt that Biden needed to respond to the claims made in the Hur report and refute the special counsel’s characterization of his abilities if he couldn’t contest Hur’s recounting of his conversation with Biden.

But in retrospect, sending him out to the podium unprepared, alone, and obviously flustered only hours after the report dropped was an obvious mistake and one that resulted in one of the greatest public relations blunders of all time.