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On Thursday, President Joe Biden vigorously defended his mental acuity in response to remarks made in a special counsel’s report regarding his handling of classified documents. The report characterized the 81-year-old Democrat’s memory as “hazy,” “fuzzy,” “faulty,” and “poor,” and noted “significant limitations.” It highlighted instances where Biden couldn’t recall key events in his life, such as the passing of his son Beau or his tenure as vice president.
In an uncommon evening address from the White House, a visibly enraged and emotional Joe Biden expressed his fury over the report’s assertion that he couldn’t recall significant moments in his life, including the date of his son Beau’s passing in 2015. “My memory is fine,” the US president declared, his voice laced with indignation. “There’s even a reference that I don’t remember when my son died. How in the hell dare he raise that?”
Joe Biden has been cleared of any wrongdoing by the counsel’s report.
Special counsel Robert Hur’s report should have brought good news for Joe Biden. It cleared the American president of any criminal wrongdoing regarding the storage of classified documents, which he had used during his tenure as vice president under Barack Obama, at his private residence and a former office.
This presents a stark comparison with a separate criminal investigation into Joe Biden’s potential November presidential opponent, Donald Trump. Trump is accused of taking large volumes of top-secret documents after departing the White House in 2021 and subsequently obstructing efforts to retrieve them.
However, special counsel Hur’s remarks unleashed a political bombshell just nine months before the election. He described the 81-year-old Democrat as a “well-meaning elderly man with a poor memory.” Hur suggested that due to Joe Biden’s diminished mental acuity, a jury would not have found him guilty on charges related to the documents regardless.
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