(The Center Square) – A visibly upset President Joe Biden addressed the nation late Thursday to respond to news that the special counsel tasked with investigating his handling of classified documents had chosen not to charge him, but also detailed numerous examples of his memory loss.
The blockbuster special counsel report, while clearing Biden, sparked questions about Biden’s mental fitness when it called him an “elderly man with a poor memory.” Biden is 81 years old.
“My memory is fine,” Biden fired back before getting hostile with reporters who asked about his mental fitness to serve as president.
The special counsel’s report detailed numerous examples of Biden’s trouble remembering key events in his life.
“In his interview with our office, Mr. Biden’s memory was worse,” according to the report. “He did not remember when he was vice president, forgetting on the first day of the interview when his term ended (‘if it was 2013 – when did I stop being Vice President?’), and forgetting on the second day of the interview when his term began (‘in 2009, am I still Vice President?’)”
Biden served as vice president under then-President Barack Obama from 2009 to 2017.
“He did not remember, even within several years, when his son Beau died,” the report continued. “And his memory appeared hazy when describing the Afghanistan debate that was once so important to him. Among other things, he mistakenly said he ‘had a real difference’ of opinion with General Karl Eikenberry, when, in fact, Eikenberry was an ally whom Mr. Eiden cited approvingly in his Thanksgiving memo to President Obama.”
On the information in the report about his son’s death, Biden angrily responded.
“How in the hell dare he raise that,” Biden said. “Frankly, when I was asked the question I thought to myself it wasn’t any of their damn business. Let me tell you something. I don’t need anyone to remind me when he passed away.” Biden said he was managing the Israel-Hamas crisis while dealing with the special counsel’s interview.
Reporters immediately questioned Biden about his memory Thursday evening after his remarks.
“My memory is fine,” Biden responded, before pointing to his accomplishments since taking office.
Notably, while answering a question from a reporter about the Israel-Gaza conflict, Biden appeared to call Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi the president of Mexico.
Biden’s political opponents online immediately responded to that blunder in what is the first of likely months of ongoing attacks on his mental fitness as he runs for a second term against his likely Republican opponent, former President Donald Trump, whom he defeated in 2020.
“Joe Biden is unfit for the office of the presidency,” U.S. Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., wrote on X, formerly known as Twitter, late Thursday. “President el Sisi is the President of Egypt not Mexico.”
When asked why he should be the Democrat to take on Trump, Biden said he is the most qualified.
Biden also addressed the report clearing him of charges in the classified documents investigation.
“The special counsel released his findings today about their look into my handling of classified documents,” Biden said. “I was pleased to see he reached the firm conclusion that no charges should be brought against me in this case. This was an exhaustive investigation going back more than 40 years, even into the 1970’s when I was still a United States Senator.”
During the remarks, Biden blamed his staff for the handling of classified documents and attempted to dispel questions about his memory.
As The Center Square previously reported, Special Counsel Robert Hur said Thursday that he found evidence that Biden “willfully retained and disclosed classified materials after his vice presidency when he was a private citizen” but said the evidence “does not establish Mr. Biden’s guilt beyond a reasonable doubt.”
The nearly 400-page report said Biden did not commit a crime but that he was careless with the documents.
“We conclude that no criminal charges are warranted in this matter,” the report said. “We would reach the same conclusion even if Department of Justice policy did not foreclose criminal charges against a sitting president.”
Trump faces charges for the same allegations of mishandling classified documents, one of his multiple indictments across several states. Former Vice President Mike Pence was also not charged though he did hold on to classified documents and then return them after leaving office.
Trump told Fox News Digital Thursday that the charges against him should now be dropped.
“They should immediately drop the case against me,” Trump told the outlet. “I am covered by the Presidential Records Act – he wasn’t. He had many, many times more documents – totally unguarded. Mine were always surrounded by Secret Service and in locked rooms.”
Biden came under investigation for the same allegations as Trump after federal authorities found classified documents stored at his home in Delaware as well as one of his offices in Washington, D.C.
“I was especially pleased the Special Counsel make clear the stark distinction and difference between this case and Mr. Trump’s case,” Biden continued.
Biden argued he more readily handed over any documents and cooperated with federal authorities while Trump did not. Biden said he cooperated completely with the investigation and gave a five-hour interview in person with the special counsel.
Biden also argued the headlines about his willful retention of documents are misleading.
“The bottom line is the matter is now closed,” Biden said.
“I did not break the law,” Biden said to reporters. “Period.”
The DOJ report lays out Biden’s mishandling of classified documents but said ultimately mitigating factors prevented a formal legal charge.
“Our investigation uncovered evidence that President Biden willfully retained and disclosed classified materials after his vice presidency when he was a private citizen,” Hur said. “These materials included (1) marked classified documents about military and foreign policy in Afghanistan, and (2) notebooks containing Mr. Biden’s handwritten entries about issues of national security and foreign policy implicating sensitive intelligence sources and methods. FBI agents recovered these materials from the garage, offices, and basement den in Mr. Biden’s Wilmington, Delaware home.”
One of those mitigating factors, according to the special counsel report, was that jurors would be sympathetic to Biden’s poor memory.
‘elderly man with poor memory’
That says it all…
If it gets to the point of a BIden Trump debate, ALL THE PEOPLE will understand who had the strength and mental capacity, and who the weak SISI (Sissy) really is !
Democrat PRESIDENT, Joe BIDEN, ” IF you tell a LIE big enough and keep repeating it, People will eventually come to believe it. The Lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can Shield .the people from the Political, Economic and/OR Military Consequences of the LIE. It thus becomes Vitally Important for the State to use all of its Powers to repress Dissent, for the TRUTH Is the MORTAL ENEMY Of the LIE, And thus by Extension, The Truth is the is the Greatest Enemy of the STATE.” Joseph Goebbels
JUST Like with Hillary “SHE Broke the law, but we are too cowardly to actually CHARGE HIM with anything”…
VICE PRESIDENT UNDER Barack H. OBAMA, Joe BIDEN WAS EXCUSED
BY D.O.J. FOR HAVING Classified DOCUMENTS IN HIS GARAGE BUT REPUBLICAN FORMER PRESIDENT, DONALD TRUMP WASN’T …the two-TIERED LAW-
THE OLD ADDAGE, ” FOR THEE, BUT NOT FOR ME.” SEEMS TO APPLY HERE. Author unknown
“How in the hell dare he raise that,” Biden said. “Frankly, when I was asked the question I thought to myself it wasn’t any of their damn business.”,,,,so if it wasn’t why did YOU raise it, over and over on the campaign, and distort the facts that your son’s death as if it was military related to beguile votes, when it was actually brain cancer?
During a Presidential debate, if a tootsie roll fell out of Joe’s adult diaper and he was seen shaking it down his pant leg on camera, he would still claim to be the most continent President in history, and finger Trump as the dumper.
During his purloined National Secrets Garage loading time as Senator and Veep he had full cognizance of what he was doing, showing that his current criminal mindset has been alive corrupting our government for decades. Even if his brain has turned to pudding, it does not excuse his self-serving actions to where he can avoid either jail time dressed in stripes, or a straight-jacket in a rubber room of a high security mental institution. All the millions of his family wealth should be stripped from Joe, his brother, his son and returned to the coffers of the taxpaying citizens whom he has done so much to defund during his government reign of terror.
IF dem, it matters not how guilty they are, THERE never are charges.
IF Republican, it matters not how INNOCENT they are, they WILL BE CHARGED>
If democrat,Socialist, President, Joe Biden isn’t controlled by Jill Biden, then he has always been Controlled by his Puppetierswho got their messages for Joe Biden to deliver from Communists. Either way Joe Biden only did what he was told.
SO that makes you wonder, WHO IS PULLING HIS strings!
Democrat President, JOE BIDEN, just signed up for China’s (Tik-Tok,) and i supposed it was a natural progression as the democrat party is home to COMMUNIST, CARD CARRYING, communist, Van JONES AND Socialist, Bernie Sanders, ETC. GOPUSA had a article titled.: SHOCKING NEW POLL, Is America worth defending, Democrats say, NO.”
Okay, it’s there for all to see (even all the squishy “independents”). Let’s not give the democrats any easy way out of facing the inevitability that ole’ Joe is going to running for re-election in November. He can’t win, but other democrats may be able to win. In other words, we shouldn’t do anything to encourage him to resign at this point. Imagine the next 10 months of President Kamala.
I remember Joe stating during his 2016 campaign that he would be a 1 term President and maybe not complete his term to make way for a younger person (I.E. african American woman). God help us if he steps down now and Kamala gets put onto the same wall of American heroes as Washington Lincoln, Jefferson, and Reagan. If THE PEOPLE wake up and finally put the death nail in the heart of woke it might just be worth the few months of total mayhem that will follow the elevation of an incompetence even greater than Joe’s, that would never get elected or become the President except via the same way liberals would make love to us,,,through the back doorl. Congress should immediately demand an immediate mental I.Q. fitness test before he can be put on the ballot again.
SO don’t envoke the 25th amendment??
It’s a good question isn’t it? If you chase Biden out of office it might be a very short term win. That would give the dems many months to (along with their partners – the mainstream media) develop a new leftist national hero and rally the troops to a new four year period of control. Might it be better to put up with this moron (Biden) for a few more months to insure a democrat defeat in November? I think a Trump victory margin against Biden would be too great for even the election rigging democrats to overcome.
AND that is what is imo wrong with our current GOP.. THEY all to often, WON’T push to do what’s right, for ‘hope of a longer term gain’.. WHICH RARELY IF EVER materializes…
” If you can”t Run with the big Dogs, Stay up on the Porch.” Author Unknow
“Staw Dog,” Comes to mind. In going after democrat, President Joe Biden- Could anyone imagine having Kamala lHarris as President,?.
More proof that there is two separate legal systems in the U.S., One for Democrats and another for Republicans,
“The nearly 400-page report said (Democrat) Biden did not commit a crime but that he was careless with the documents.”
Hummm…… Exactly like the Democrat crooked Hil-Liar-y Clinton put top secret information on her personal server and then destroyed evidence after it was subpoenaed by the court.
Hillary Clinton is once again being allowed to skate, even though the head of the very body tasked with investigating her — the FBI — has detailed precisely how Clinton did in fact break the law.
FBI Director James Comey laid out, with specificity, how Clinton violated our national security laws, but then he proceeded to explain that he was nevertheless declining to refer Clinton for federal prosecution.
“Judge Andrew Napolitano: “Hillary Clinton Has Admitted To Destroying Evidence” 3/30/2015
JUDGE ANDREW NAPOLITANO: She is in trouble legally if there is a prosecutor with the courage or authority to prosecute her because in addition to admitting that she diverted government records from the government, in addition to admitting that she put classified information in a non-classified venue, that is the crime in which General Petraeus has agreed to plead guilty to. She now has admitted to destroying subpoenaed evidence after she was on notice of the existence subpoena. That’s known as obstruction of justice as well as destruction of the documents. But none of her crimes will get to first base in terms of prosecution without a prosecutor to pursue them…”
As i’ve often said. ITS More like a 4 tiered one.
DEMS politicians are the TOP
Followed by dem voters (especially illegal invaders and crooks!)
Then republican politicians,
and lastly everyone else..
The Two Tiered legal system is a Live and well under Attorney General Garland. Remember what Attorney Sol Whiter once said, ” That they get a Jury To Indict A HAM Sandwich if thats what he wanted.” To parapharaphrase Sol W.
If there wasn’t anything on Hillary Clintons Private Clmputer while she was Secretary Of State, Under democrat President Barack H. Obama, Why did she go to the trouble of using( Bleach Bright,) on her Private ComPuter.?
In 2020 the GHOST candidate qon, the Democrats sold the the the country damaged goods, a pig-in-a-poke. Due to so mant election irregularities which were never investigate properly he was put into office. That he actually lasted this long in office is a surprise but now end seems mercifully near!
“I did not break the law,” Biden said to reporters. “Period.”
Well, yes, you did. The Fed simply says you are too daft to know it. However, if you feel they are in error I, for one, am all for re-opening the investigation (“going back 40 years”) and disallowing the “feeble old brain” defense.
US is in a mess alright all due to a totalitarian Dem Party.
I can’t think of any current Dem politician that anyone “should” elect to be prez, vp or even to Congress.
I’m worried that Dem Party may win due to constant pro Dem media propaganda, conservative censorship, Zuckbucks bribery, states with no voter ID requirement & obsolete registration rolls, unsolicited mail in ballots, ballot harvesting & other cheating / fraud not detected for months, years or never.
So, aside from above worries, I wonder if Biden were to resign before election & make Harris acting prez for few months til election – could Harris then win prez in the 2024 general election? Or could Dems more likely win if Michelle Obama would accept nomination?