Biden disputes particular counsel report, says reminiscence ‘positive’

President Joe Biden on Thursday night strongly disputed new claims by Division of Justice particular counsel Robert Hur that he “willfully retained and disclosed classified materials” as a non-public citizen, and that he had exhibited poor reminiscence throughout an interview about that materials.

“My memory has not gotten worse,” Biden informed reporters in a nationally televised deal with on the White Home hours after Hur launched his report.

“My memory is fine.”

However moments later, Biden referred to Egypt’s president because the “president of Mexico.”

Biden was visibly offended at Hur’s declare that he couldn’t keep in mind the 12 months his son Beau Biden died, which the particular counsel cited amongst different examples of proof that Biden’s reminiscence “appeared hazy” throughout interviews with investigators.

The president mentioned that when he was requested a query about that 12 months Beau died “I thought to myself [it] wasn’t any of their damn business.”

“How in the hell dare he raise that,” Biden mentioned of Hur. “I don’t need anyone to remind me when he passed away.”

The principle authorized takeaway from Hur’s report was the particular counsel’s resolution to not criminally cost Biden regardless of what Hur mentioned was the president’s willful retention of categorized paperwork and disclosure of of some categorized materials to the ghostwriter of his 2017 memoir.

Biden mentioned, “I’ve seen the headlines since the report was released about my willful retention of documents.

“These assertions are usually not solely deceptive, they’re simply plain improper,” the president mentioned.

Biden forcefully denied sharing the material with the writer.

And the president noted that Hur on page 215 of the same report wrote that “whereas it’s pure to imagine that Mr. Biden put the Afghanistan paperwork within the field on objective and that he knew they have been there, there may be in reality a scarcity of proof on these factors.”

“We have no idea why, how, or by whom the paperwork have been positioned within the field,” the report had said.

On page 12 of the report, Biden noted, the special counsel wrote, “For different recovered categorized paperwork, after a radical investigation the choice to say no legal expenses was easy.”

Those classified documents were found in a Washington, D.C., office Biden had used after he ended his tenure as vice president in January 2017, and in collections of his U.S. Senate papers at the University of Delaware.

“The proof means that Mr. Biden didn’t willfully retain these paperwork and that they might plausibly have been introduced to those places by mistake,” the report said.

Despite that language, Hur in his report used evidence of what he said was Biden’s “poor reminiscence” to further justify his decision not to criminally charge the president.

“Now we have additionally thought of that, at trial, Mr. Biden would seemingly current himself to a jury, as he did throughout our interview of him, as a sympathetic, well-meaning, aged man with a poor reminiscence,” the particular counsel mentioned in his report.

Hur’s repeated references to Biden’s reminiscence sparked a bitter backlash from the White Home and Biden’s supporters earlier than the president made his televised deal with.

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