{"id":15308,"date":"2024-02-09T00:46:17","date_gmt":"2024-02-09T00:46:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/09\/biden-white-house-blame-israel-war-for-forgetting-basic-facts-during-special-counsel-interviews\/"},"modified":"2024-02-09T00:46:17","modified_gmt":"2024-02-09T00:46:17","slug":"biden-white-house-blame-israel-war-for-forgetting-basic-facts-during-special-counsel-interviews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/09\/biden-white-house-blame-israel-war-for-forgetting-basic-facts-during-special-counsel-interviews\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden, White House blame Israel war for forgetting basic facts during special counsel interviews"},"content":{"rendered":"
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President Biden said Thursday that he struggled to remember certain key dates during his interviews with Special Counsel Robert Hur as a result of the ongoing Israel-Hamas war.<\/p>\n

Biden told reporters that he was \u2018handling an international crisis\u2019 at the time of his interviews with federal investigators shortly after Hur released his 345-page report Thursday detailing the findings in his investigation into the president\u2019s handling of classified documents. In the report, Hur noted that Biden\u2019s memory failed him in multiple instances, saying the president forgot when he was vice president and when his son Beau died.<\/p>\n

\u2018I sought no delays. In fact, I was so determined to get the special counsel what they needed,\u2019 Biden remarked. \u2018I went forward with a five-hour in-person interview over the two days of October \u2014 the ninth, eighth and ninth last year \u2014 even though Israel had just been attacked by Hamas on the seventh. I was in the middle of handling an international crisis.\u2019<\/p>\n

\u2018Bottom line is, a special counsel in my case decided against moving forward any charges, and this matter is now closed,\u2019 the president continued. \u2018I\u2019ll continue to do what I\u2019ve always done \u2014 stay focused on my job like you do, of my job of being president.\u2019<\/p>\n

Additionally, shortly after the report was published, Biden\u2019s personal lawyers Richard Sauber and Bob Bauer penned a letter to Hur, criticizing him for his characterization of the president\u2019s memory. The lawyers said the report\u2019s language has \u2018no place in a Department of Justice report.\u2019<\/p>\n

\u2018We do not believe that the report\u2019s treatment of President Biden\u2019s memory is accurate or appropriate,\u2019 Sauber and Bauer wrote. \u2018The report uses highly prejudicial language to describe a commonplace occurrence among witnesses: a lack of recall of years-old events.\u2019<\/p>\n

\u2018In fact there is ample evidence from your interview that the President did well in answering your questions about years-old events over the course of five hours,\u2019 they added in the letter.\u00a0\u2018This is especially true under the circumstances, which you do not mention in your report that his interview began the day after the October 7 attacks on Israel.\u2019<\/p>\n

White House communications director Ben LaBolt reiterated Biden\u2019s counsel in a post on X, again calling attention to the dates of the president\u2019s interviews in the case.<\/p>\n

In the report, Hur detailed how Biden forgot basic facts about his own personal history and his family, even referring to Biden as \u2018a sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory.\u2019\u00a0And the report states that a jury would have trouble convicting Biden of having committed a serious felony that \u2018requires a mental state of willfulness.\u2019<\/p>\n

\u2018In his interview with our office, Mr. Biden\u2019s memory was worse,\u2019 the report states. \u2018He did not remember when he was vice president, forgetting on the first day of the interview when his term ended (\u2018if it was 2013 \u2013 when did I stop being Vice President?\u2019), and forgetting on the second day of the interview when his term began (\u2018in 2009, am I still Vice President?\u2019).\u2019<\/p>\n

\u2018He did not remember, even within several years, when his son Beau died,\u2019 the report continued. \u2018And his memory appeared hazy when describing the Afghanistan debate that was once so important to him. Among other things, he mistakenly said he \u2018had a real difference\u2019 of opinion with General Karl Eikenberry, when, in fact, Eikenberry was an ally whom Mr. Biden cited approvingly in his Thanksgiving memo to President Obama.\u2019<\/p>\n

\u2018In a case where the government must prove that Mr. Biden knew he had possession of the classified Afghanistan documents after the vice presidency and chose to keep those documents, knowing he was violating the law, we expect that at trial, his attorneys would emphasize these limitations in his recall,\u2019 the report said.<\/p>\n

The White House didn\u2019t immediately respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n

Fox News Digital reporters Brooke Singman and Joe Schoffstall contributed to this report<\/p>\n\n

This post appeared first on FOX NEWS<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

President Biden said Thursday that he struggled to remember certain key dates during his interviews with Special Counsel Robert Hur as a result of the ongoing Israel-Hamas war. Biden told reporters that he was \u2018handling an international crisis\u2019 at the time of his interviews with federal investigators shortly after Hur released his 345-page report Thursday <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":15309,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-15308","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-politics"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15308\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}