'Why did it have to come to this?' Trump shares message of empathy for Biden

Former President Donald Trump shared with his social media followers Friday a message of empathy for President Joe Biden.

Well, kind of.

The message came in the form of an editorial from Fox News legal analyst Gregg Jarrett on the national debate, which Trump shared Friday on Truth Social, that pitted the former president, a convicted felon, against the current one, an 81-year-old man.

"Why did it have to come to this humiliating moment before a national audience?" asks Jarrett.

Jarrett is less concerned about Trump's criminal conviction on 34 counts of falsifying business records to conceal hush money paid to adult film star Stormy Daniels ahead of the 2016 presidential election.

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Nor does the legal analyst delve into the three remaining criminal court cases Trump faces on accusations he tried to overthrow the 2020 presidential election by inciting a riot at the U.S. Capitol and stored top secret information in a Florida bathroom.

Trump's three civil court cases in New York City that found him liable for defrauding investors and defaming a woman he was also found liable of sexually abusing decades ago do not get a mention from Jarrett.

The humiliating moment Jarrett decries is this: "Why did Democrats persist in protecting their candidate in the face of unmistakable evidence of impaired speech, memory loss, and disorientation?"

For his part, Biden has admitted he still struggles with a stutter and that he doesn't debate as well as he once did.

"I know what I do well," Biden said. "I know how to tell the truth."

In comparison, Trump's "torrent of lies" so outraged political analysts Thursday night that they felt obligated to publicly rebuke moderators Jake Tapper and Dana Bash.

"CNN inadvertently became one of the greatest disseminators of disinformation in American political history," responded Salon's Heather Digby Parton. "Millions of people heard Donald Trump's lies and since they were met with silence from the journalists on the stage upon whom people depend to tell them the facts."

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Jarrett agreed that journalists were to blame — a novel never-before seen take that certainly isn't driving this one up the f$%^ing wall — but for a very different reason.

"Biden’s media handmaidens bear considerable blame," writes Jarrett. "They repeatedly assured the American people that their favored chief executive was sentient and sharp when they knew he was not."

Jarrett is the author of opinion pieces with titles including "In Trump trial there was no real crime but America just lost something it can never get back" and "Trump's defense dismantles prosecution's imaginary crimes. But did jury listen?"