White House: Special counsel made “inappropriate criticism” of Biden’s memory White House: Special counsel made “inappropriate criticism” of Biden’s memory

After criticism of the mental state of US President Joe Biden by a special investigator, the White House is trying to limit the damage.

“I dispute that the report’s characterizations of his memory are accurate because they are not,” Ian Sams, a White House spokesman, said Friday. One wonders why the report released Thursday into Biden’s affair about classified documents stored in private rooms “spends time making baseless and inappropriate criticism of the president.”

The report’s claim that the 81-year-old could not remember when his son Beau died was also false and inappropriate.

Special investigator Robert Hur published his report on the affair surrounding Biden’s handling of classified documents on Thursday. It states that no charges will be filed against Biden, but that as a private citizen he deliberately kept secret information. The special investigator’s report takes a position on Biden’s mental state. A few hours after the publication, Biden responded angrily to the allegations at a news conference, insisting his memory was “fine.”

Vice President Kamala Harris on Friday called the report “politically motivated.” “The way the president’s conduct is characterized in this report could not be more inaccurate than the facts and is clearly politically motivated,” she said. Speaker Sams wouldn’t go that far, but pointed out that we are currently in an environment “that has a lot of pressure because Republicans in Congress are attacking prosecutors they don’t like.” (sda/dpa)