It’s rare that President Joe Biden holds a press conference or speaks to reporters, but that’s exactly what he did Thursday evening after a Special Report laid out instances of his mental decline. Special counsel Robert Hur announced in the report that President Joe Biden “willfully retained” and mishandled classified documents after he left the office of the vice presidency.
Despite his mishandling of the classified documents, Hur did not recommend any charges due to his old age. Investigators found Biden’s “memory was significantly limited” when they conducted interviews with the president as far back as in recordings from 2017 of conversations between Biden and his ghostwriter, Mark Zwontizer. Biden was “often painfully slow, with Mr. Biden struggling to remember events and straining at times to read and relay his own notebook entries.”
Biden was defensive in his press conference, likely because he is running for a second term. Biden pinned the report findings on his staff. “I take responsibility for not having seen exactly what my staff was doing,” he said. “Things that appeared in my garage, things that came out of my home, things that were moved, were moved not by me, but my staff, but my staff,” he continued.
The Daily Caller highlighted the tension between Biden and reporters:
Once Biden opened up the press conference to questions, reporters began peppering him with inquiries about his memory and mental acuity, which had become a major point of debate after Hur’s report was released. Fox News White House correspondent Peter Doocy asked Biden, “How bad is your memory?”
“My memory is so bad I let you speak,” Biden said. “My memory is fine. Take a look at what I’ve done since I’ve become president.”
Biden reached his most heated when another reporter began to ask a question about the American people’s concerns about his mental state, a premise which is backed by vast amounts of polling.
“That is your judgement! That is your judgement! That is not the judgement of the press!” Biden shouted back at her. He then mistakenly referred to Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi as the President of Mexico.
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