The White House and Vice President of the United States Kamala HarrisDescribed comments about Joe Biden’s memory as “inappropriate” contained in a report by special prosecutor Robert Hur.
“The way the president’s conduct has been described in this report could not be more factually inaccurate and clearly politically motivated,” Harris told reporters.
The report cleared Biden of mishandling classified documents, said Harris, who previously served as a federal prosecutorComments about Biden’s memory were “gratuitous, inaccurate and inappropriate.”
With these words, Harris raises the tone. Biden himself and the White House had already sharply criticized the report, but did not directly attack the special investigator himself.
“If the inevitable conclusion is that the facts and evidence do not support allegations, one wonders why this report spends time making unfounded and inappropriate criticism of the president,” White House spokesman Ian Sams said at a news conference .
Hur was appointed U.S. attorney for the District of Maryland by former Republican President Donald Trump in 2017 before being appointed special prosecutor for the documents case by Biden Attorney General Merrick Garland.
An angry Biden responded in a speech at the White House on Thursday evening.
“My memory is good,” he said, very upset that the report mentioned that he had forgotten the day his son Beau died. “How the hell dare you?” he protested.
Biden’s mistake
The prosecutor’s comments come the same week that Joe Biden made a series of mistakes by confusing several international political figures.
First, Joe Biden spoke at the 2021 G7 Summit earlier this week and confused French President Emmanuel Macron with the late Francois Mitterrandwho was in power from 1981 to 1995 and died in 1996.
Later, on Wednesday evening, Joe Biden referenced a conversation he had with Angela Merkel in 2021, as if it had happened with Chancellor Helmut Kohldied in 2017.
Finally, yesterday the President of the United States confused the President of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador with the President of Egypt.
This series of errors has sparked a series of criticisms from Republicans who claim that Joe Biden’s mental health is compromised and could pose a danger to his country.
With information from AFP.
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