Before the November presidential election, US President Joe Biden has defended his memory in the wake of a special counsel investigation about his handling of confidential documents that raised additional questions about his suitability for office.
In passionate and occasionally irrational remarks, Biden attacked Special Counsel Robert Hur for concluding during his interview with prosecutors that his memory was so “severely limited” that he was unable to recall the year he started as President Barack Obama’s vice president or the year his son Beau passed away.
During a press conference on Thursday at the White House, Biden stated, “There’s even reference that I don’t remember when my son died.” “How is it possible for him to bring up that?”
In reference to his son, who died in 2015 of brain cancer, Biden remarked, “I don’t need anyone to remind me when he passed away.”
At the end of his second term, if reelected, Biden, the oldest US president in history, would turn 86. He claimed his memory is “fine” and “has not gotten worse.”
Expected to take against former President Donald Trump in November, Biden claimed to have spent hours interviewing with prosecutors following the “international crisis” that was triggered by Hamas’s October 7 terrorist attack.
Along with disputing Hur’s claims that he handled secret documents improperly, he refuted the idea that he gave his ghostwriter access to classified material.
According to Hur’s assessment, which was made public on Thursday, Biden will not be prosecuted for removing classified materials at the conclusion of the Obama administration because he complied with investigators and would seem reasonable in front of a jury.
