‘How the hell dare he’: Biden defends memory after special counsel report
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US president says his memory is ‘fine’ after special counsel report says he could not recall the year his son died.
United States President Joe Biden has defended his memory after a special counsel report into his handling of classified documents renewed scrutiny of his fitness for office ahead of the presidential election in November.
In emotional remarks, Biden took aim at Special Counsel Robert Hur for finding that his memory was so “severely limited” when interviewed by prosecutors that he could not remember the year he began serving as vice president under President Barack Obama or the year his son Beau died.
“There’s even reference that I don’t remember when my son died,” Biden said during a press conference at the White House on Thursday. “How in the hell dare he raise that?”
Biden, who is the oldest US president in history and would be 86 at the end of a second term in office, said his memory is “fine” and “has not gotten worse”.
Biden also disputed some of Hur’s assertions about his culpability in mishandling sensitive documents, denying that he had shared classified information with his ghostwriter.
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