President Biden on Thursday evening issued a furious rebuttal to Special Counsel Robert Hur’s report after it repeatedly noted problems with his memory, while announcing a decision not to charge him for having classified documents in his home and in the office.
“I know what the hell I’m doing,” an animated Biden told reporters at a hastily arranged news conference at the White House, after early recordings of the report’s findings highlighted Hur’s account of memory problems, even as it struck him as “willful” . keeping secret information.
‘My memory hasn’t gotten any worse. My memory is fine. Look at what I’ve done since I became president,” Biden exclaimed.
“Nobody thought I could get through the things I was given. How did that happen? I guess I just forgot what was going on,” he snapped.
The surprise announcement came hours after the Justice Department released its long-awaited investigation into Joe Biden’s mishandling of classified documents.
He was particularly animated by Hur’s claim that he could not remember the timing of Beau’s death.
Biden himself raised the subject, citing language in his report about “my recollection of events.”
“How on earth does he dare bring that up?” he smoked.
But in keeping with multiple public events this week, Biden botched the identification of a world leader by naming Abdel Fattah El-Sisi the president of Mexico.
‘I am president. I put this country back on its feet,” he thundered.
‘It is even said that I cannot remember when my son died. How on earth does he dare bring that up,” he stated angrily. “I don’t need anyone, I don’t need anyone to remind me of his death.”
He also said reports of his “deliberate” retention of documents are “misleading.”
The surprise address to the nation came hours after the Justice Department on Thursday released its long-awaited investigation into Joe Biden’s mishandling of classified documents, delivering a scathing assessment of the president’s “diminished capabilities” and limited memory.
While the report does not recommend filing charges against the 81-year-old, it offers a flurry of damaging findings about files found in Biden’s garage and about the president’s fitness for office.
In interviews with researchers, Biden became confused about the dates he was vice president and could not even remember the year his son Beau died.
And it said his cavalier attitude toward classified documents, such as his habit of reading sensitive files to a ghostwriter, posed a significant risk to national security.
One of the reasons they decided not to press charges was because “Mr. Biden would likely present himself to a jury at trial, as he did during our interview with him, as a likable, well-meaning, older man with a poor memory . ‘.
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