The president of United States, Joe Bidenstated this Thursday that his memory “Alright” after special prosecutor Robert Hur concluded hours earlier that the president intentionally withheld classified documents from his time as vice president, but decided not to file charges against him.
In the document issued by the prosecutor after the investigation, he assured that Biden showed a “significantly limited memory” during his interrogations in 2023.
To which Biden responded in an improvised press conference from the White House that his memory is in good condition, aware that the factor of his age (81 years) and his lapses in public could hinder his re-election in the presidential elections of November.
“I mean well, and I’m an old man, and I know what the hell I’m doing“Biden added when asked by a Fox News journalist about it.
However, part of his argument fell on deaf ears when, at one point in this intervention, specifically from the diplomatic reception room of the White House, he confused the president of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, with that of Egypt, Abdelfatah al Sisi. .
Biden has been the subject of investigation since classified documents from the time he was Barack Obama’s vice president (2009-2017) were found a year ago at his Delaware home and in a private office.
The documents were found by Biden’s lawyers in November and December 2022, and immediately delivered to the National Archives, the organization that must safeguard them, after which the Department of Justice opened an investigation.
“Our investigation uncovered evidence that President Biden withheld and voluntarily disclosed classified material after his vice presidency, when he was a private citizen,” the document specified.
“I didn’t break the law. And period”
However, in the appearance this Thursday, Biden insisted on his innocence: “I did not break the law. And that’s it.”
Although he acknowledged: “I take responsibility for not having reviewed exactly what my staff was doing. They came and went. Some things appeared in my garage, others came out…”
Hur had argued that prosecuting Biden due to this case was “unjustified based on our consideration of the aggravating and mitigating factors” and detailed that the evidence “does not establish the guilt” of the president “beyond a reasonable doubt.”
It was then that the special prosecutor emphasized the president’s “memory” and even revealed that he did not remember the dates on which he held the vice presidency and had difficulty remembering the date of his son Beau’s death in 2015.
“How the hell dare you raise that?” Biden vehemently settled today.
Former President Donald Trump (2017-2021), Republican candidate for next November’s elections, was also investigated for retaining official documents in his Florida mansion and was charged with 40 charges since he refused to hand them over for months.
Source: Gestion
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