President Biden lashed out at reporters and special counsel Robert Hur Thursday night in response to a scathing report on Biden's mishandling of classified documents that could prove devastating to his re-election prospects.
DOJ "My memory is fine," Biden snapped at one reporter, telling another, "My memory is so bad I let you speak." Biden shirked responsibility for the documents fiasco when pressed by reporters.
Key takeaways from special counsel Robert Hur's report on Biden's classified documents Joe Biden "Willfully retained and disclosed classified materials" after leaving the vice presidency in January 2017.
Classified documents about the war in Afghanistan were found in a box in the garage at Biden's main residence in Wilmington, Del. Biden repeatedly disclosed classified information he wrote down in notebooks to Mark Zwonitzer, who ghostwrote Biden's 2017 book, "Promise Me, Dad." During one February 2017 conversation, Biden told Zwonitzer: "I just found all the classified stuff downstairs" at his then-home in Virginia.
Hur's report said Biden had been keeping classified documents dating to the 1970s from his time in the Senate as well as more recent vice presidential records alongside "Household detritus" in his garage and other locations - including at his post-vice presidency office at the Penn Biden Center in DC. Biden's Delaware garage with a box of documents, as mentioned in the report on the investigation into unauthorized removal of classified documents.
Biden's Delaware garage with a box of documents, as mentioned in the report on the investigation into unauthorized removal of classified documents.
DOJ Biden defended his cognition despite repeatedly botching the names of foreign leaders - twice telling donors Wednesday that Helmut Kohl, who left office as German chancellor in 1998 and died in 2017, spoke with him in 2021 about that year's Capitol riot and saying Sunday that former French President Francois Mitterrand, who left office in 1995 and died in 1996, joined that conversation Journalists pressed Biden on what the report and questions about his mental fitness mean for the November election in which he faces a likely rematch against Trump.
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