Joe Biden says he has no “memory problems” after devastating report from prosecutor Robert Hur

Responsible for investigating his management of confidential documents, the magistrate estimated that “his memory had worsened” due to his age.

“I mean well, I’m an old man and I know what I’m doing, dammit. I don’t have memory problems.” An irritated Joe Biden firmly defended himself on Thursday, February 8, during a televised address, after the publication of a report in the confidential documents affair. The special prosecutor responsible for investigating this case, Robert Hur, published a 388-page report. This document does not recommend prosecutions against the 81-year-old president but exposes his main vulnerability, his age, and notes that “his memory got worse”.

Joe Biden “didn’t remember when he was vice president” nor exactly the year of the death of his eldest son Beau, says the prosecutor in his report. He considers that“an indictment would not be justified”finding in particular that a jury would give the benefit of the doubt to “a friendly, well-meaning elderly man with a bad memory”.

“Inappropriate comments” according to the White House

“How the hell dare he?”, thundered Joe Biden on this subject, visibly very moved and in a tone of defiance. After the publication of the report, the Democratic president initially assured that he had fully cooperated with the investigation, including during a five-hour interview over two days with the special prosecutor and his team in October 2023.

White House legal advisor Richard Sauber and Joe Biden’s personal lawyer Bob Bauer welcomed in a letter attached to the report the special prosecutor’s decision not to prosecute but regretted the “inappropriate comments” Who “have nothing to do in a report from the Ministry of Justice”.