President Joe Biden’s attorneys allegedly urged the Justice Department to exclude any language from special counsel Robert Hur’s report that criticized his age and memory.
Inside sources have revealed that Biden’s attorneys wrote “to Attorney General Merrick Garland, complaining that details in the report about the president’s recollections during an interview with investigators ‘openly, obviously and blatantly violate department policy and practice.’”
Per ABC News:
“Bradley Weinsheimer, a senior Justice Department official, responded the following day that the “identified language is neither gratuitous nor unduly prejudicial because it is not offered to criticize or demean the President; rather, it is offered to explain Special Counsel Hur’s conclusions about the President’s state of mind in possessing and retaining classified information.”’
After Hur’s report, Biden’s lawyers responded to Weinsheimer’s letter that they “fundamentally disagree with [his] assessment that the comments contained in Special Counsel Hur’s report were consistent with Department policy and practice.”
“They surely were not,” they asserted.
Last week, Robert Hur stated in his report that the president is experiencing cognitive decline, leading to memory issues. Hur cited this as a reason to suggest that the president should not face prosecution for retaining classified documents.
Per the report:
“The report says the investigation “uncovered evidence that President Biden willfully retained and disclosed classified materials after his vice presidency when he was a private citizen” but does not establish guilt “beyond a reasonable doubt.”
“Yet Hur’s assessment of Biden’s “significantly limited” memory also played a part in his decision not to prosecute.
“We have also considered that, at trial, Mr. Biden would likely present himself to a jury, as he did during our interview of him, as a sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory,” the report states. “Based on our direct interactions with and observations of him, he is someone for whom many jurors will want to identify reasonable doubt.”
““It would be difficult to convince a jury that they should convict him — by then a former president well into his eighties — of a serious felony that requires a mental state of willfulness.”
“Hur’s report is riddled with examples and assessments that Biden’s mental faculties and memory have deteriorated, saying, “Mr. Biden’s memory also appeared to have significant limitations.”
“Shockingly, the report says, “He did not remember, even within several years, when his son Beau died.”’
According to a recent poll conducted by ABC News/Ipsos, the majority of Americans believe that Biden is currently too advanced in age to fulfill another term in office.
