US President Joe Biden resolutely defended himself after a report with devastating findings exonerated him in the investigation into possession of classified documents, but described him as “an old man with a bad memory”, reported Agence France-Presse, quoted by BTA.
“I’m well-intentioned, I’m a grown man and I know what the hell I’m doing. I don’t have memory problems,” a visibly irritated Biden, 81, said in a televised address last night.
Hours earlier, the U.S. special counsel tasked with investigating the president’s handling of classified documents released a 388-page report that did not recommend indicting him but highlighted his main weakness — his age — and noted , that “his memory has deteriorated.”
Joe Biden “couldn’t remember when he was vice president” or the exact year his son Bo died, special prosecutor Robert Hurr said.
“How the hell does he even dare?” Joe Biden said at this point, visibly annoyed and in disbelief.
Appointed in January 2023 by Justice Secretary and Attorney General Merrick Garland, the special counsel concluded that the president “knowingly held and disclosed classified documents after his tenure as vice president while an ordinary citizen.”
However, the special prosecutor believes that “indictment would not be warranted” because he believes the jury will side with “a kind, well-meaning elderly person with a failing memory.”
The expected decision removes the threat of possible legal problems for the Democratic president, who is preparing to face his Republican predecessor Donald Trump in November in a rematch in the 2020 election, but once again puts him in a bad light with his political rivals. who did not fail to comment on the conclusions of the report.
Donald Trump reacted to the report by denouncing a “double-standard judicial system”. “The case with the Biden documents is different from mine and is a hundred times more serious. I have done nothing wrong and I have cooperated much more” with the investigators, he assured.
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