President Joe Biden speaks at the House Democratic Caucus Issues Conference in Leesburg, VA, on Feb. 8, 2024, soon after the release of a special counsel that painted him as having memory troubles.
oe Biden didn’t remember what year his beloved son Beau died. He wasn’t sure which years he served as Vice President. He had “limitations in his recall” during interviews with investigators. Those are all observations that Special Counsel Robert Hur decided to include in his 388-page report released Thursday on why heagainst Biden over classified documents found in his Penn Biden Center office and his Wilmington home.
"Frankly, when I was asked the question, I thought to myself, wasn't any of their damn business," the President continued, adding that he carries with him every day a rosary that belonged to Beau and his family holds a service for Beau every Memorial Day."I don't need anyone to remind me when he passed away," Biden said."For any extraneous commentary, they don't know what they're talking about. It has no place in this report.
"My memory is fine," Biden went on."Take a look at what I've done since I've become President. None of you thought I could pass any of the things I got passed. How'd that happen? I guess I just forgot what was going on." The report comes at the end of a week when Biden was criticized for using wrong names for the leaders of France and Germany while giving remarks. An NBC News poll released Tuesday found that 62% of voters have major concerns that Biden doesn’t have the mental and physical health to be President for a second term.
In his report, Hur wrote that during both days of questioning in October Biden forgot which years he was vice president, and that Biden didn't remember,"even within several years," when his son Beau died. The report concluded that a trial would be hard to win and that Biden's legal team"would emphasize these limitations in his recall" to fend off a conviction.
Soon after the report’s release, Biden addressed the House Democratic Caucus at an event Thursday evening in Leesburg, Virginia. The President described sitting down for his interview with Hur’s team on October 8 and 9, the two days following Hamas’ deadly massacre in Israel. “I was in the middle of handling an international crisis,” Biden told those gathered in a resort ballroom. Biden didn’t bring up Hur’s description of his memory lapses.
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