Daniel Marans covers national campaigns and elections.
Special counsel Robert Hur, who worked in the Trump administration and clerked for conservative judges, has elicited criticism for commenting on Biden's age and memory.for retaining classified documents after his vice presidency ― but the conservative jurist got in a few digs on Biden’s mental acuity and age in the process.“Mr. Biden’s memory was significantly limited, both during his recorded interviews with the ghostwriter in 2017, and in his interview with our office in 2023,” Hur wrote.
Hur’s comments about Biden’s age and mental acuity are likely to become fodder for political attacks by former President Donald Trump, the prohibitive favorite for the Republican presidential nomination. Trump, 77, has seized on Biden’s verbal gaffes to argue that he’s too old to serve as president.Biden addressed those assertions during a briefing on Thursday, telling reporters his memory was “fine” and angrily rejecting claims that he willfully retained any documents.
“The President’s inability to recall dates or details of events that happened years ago is neither surprising nor unusual, especially given that many questions asked him to recall the particulars of staff work to pack, ship, and store materials and furniture in the course of moves between residences,” Sauber and Bauer wrote. “The same predictable memory loss occurred with other witnesses in this investigation.
“There’s certainly no crime in being a well-meaning elderly man,” Sen. Richard Blumenthal told HuffPost. “ mandate was to judge whether a crime was committed...not speculate on what the jury would do, not to speculate on how full or sharp Joe Biden’s mind is.” “What was Merrick Garland thinking? Biden isn’t senile, but he is far too trusting in centrists like Orrin Hatch favorite Merrick Garland,” HauserTommy Vietor, a former Obama administration spokesperson, likened Hur’s disparagement of Biden in a statement about not prosecuting him to then-FBI Director James Comey’s stern admonishment of then-Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton in an announcement that he would not press charges over her use of a private email server.
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