{"id":15326,"date":"2024-02-09T12:47:44","date_gmt":"2024-02-09T12:47:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/09\/biden-says-his-memory-is-fine-he-is-most-qualified-person-in-this-country-to-be-president\/"},"modified":"2024-02-09T12:47:44","modified_gmt":"2024-02-09T12:47:44","slug":"biden-says-his-memory-is-fine-he-is-most-qualified-person-in-this-country-to-be-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/09\/biden-says-his-memory-is-fine-he-is-most-qualified-person-in-this-country-to-be-president\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden says his memory is \u2018fine,\u2019 he is \u2018most qualified person in this country\u2019 to be president"},"content":{"rendered":"
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President Biden addressed the nation Thursday night, saying his memory is \u2018fine\u2019 and defended his re-election campaign, saying he is the \u2018most qualified person in this country to be president.\u2019<\/p>\n

Biden\u2019s address to the nation from the White House Thursday night comes just hours after Special Counsel Robert Hur released his report, which did not recommend criminal charges against the president for mishandling classified documents.\u00a0Those records included classified documents about military and foreign policy in Afghanistan, among other records related to national security and foreign policy which Hur said implicated \u2018sensitive intelligence sources and methods.\u2019\u00a0<\/p>\n

Hur, though, described Biden as a \u2018sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory.\u2019 Hur, throughout the more than 300-page report, said \u2018it would be difficult to convince a jury that they should convict him\u2019 of a serious felony \u2018that requires a mental state of willfulness,\u2019 and said he would be \u2018well into his eighties.\u2019\u00a0<\/p>\n

Biden, on Thursday night, said he agreed.<\/p>\n

\u2018I\u2019m well-meaning, and I\u2019m an elderly man and I know what the hell I\u2019m doing,\u2019 Biden said. \u2018I\u2019ve been president. I put this country back on its feet. I don\u2019t need his recommendation.\u2019<\/p>\n

Biden added: \u2018My memory is fine.\u2019<\/p>\n

During his address, Biden also fired back at Special Counsel Robert Hur for suggesting he did not remember when his son Beau died.<\/p>\n

\u2018How dare he raise that?\u2019 Biden said. \u2018Frankly, when I was asked a question, I thought to myself, what\u2019s that any of your damn business?\u2019<\/p>\n

\u2018Let me tell you something\u2026I swear, since the day he died, every single day\u2026I wear the rosary he got from Our Lady\u2014\u2019 Biden stopped, seemingly forgetting where the rosary was from.<\/p>\n

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Biden became visibly emotional, and declared: \u2018I don\u2019t need anyone\u2014I don\u2019t need anyone to remind me when he passed away or passed away.\u2019\u00a0<\/p>\n

Moments later, though, Biden transitioned to discuss the conflict in the Middle East. Biden referred to Abdel Fattah El-Sisi, the president of Egypt, as \u2018the president of Mexico.\u2019<\/p>\n

But the president took a barrage of questions from the White House press corps, with some shouting and pressing him on whether he is fit to run for re-election.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u2018I\u2019m the most qualified person in this country to be president of the United States,\u2019 Biden said, adding that he has to \u2018finish the job I started.\u2019\u00a0<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Hur, in the report, said Biden, during his interview with the special counsel\u2019s team, could not remember key details, such as when he was vice president.\u00a0<\/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\u00a0vice president, forgetting on the first day of the interview when his term ended (\u2018if it was 2013 \u2014 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

As for Biden\u2019s memory, prior to the release of the report, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre on Thursday defended Biden when asked about a gaffe in which the president said he spoke in 2021 with German Chancellor Helmut Kohl \u2014 who actually died four years earlier \u2014 arguing that misspeaking \u2018happens to all of us, and it is common.\u2019\u00a0<\/p>\n

That gaffe was similar to the one Biden made on Sunday when he claimed he spoke with Fran\u00e7ois Mitterrand, a French president who died in 1996, at the same G7 meeting.<\/p>\n

But Hur also said his investigation \u2018uncovered evidence that President Biden willfully retained and disclosed classified materials after his vice presidency when he was a private citizen.\u2019<\/p>\n

The materials included \u2018marked classified documents about military and foreign policy in Afghanistan, and notebooks containing Mr. Biden\u2019s handwritten entries about issues of national security and foreign policy implicating sensitive intelligence sources and methods.\u2019\u00a0<\/p>\n

Hur said FBI agents recovered the materials from \u2018the garages, offices, and basement den in Mr. Biden\u2019s Wilmington, Delaware home.\u2019<\/p>\n

But Biden fired back, citing sections in the report that stated he did not willfully retain the documents. Biden also said he was \u2018especially pleased to see special counsel make clear the stark distinction in difference between this case and Mr. Trump\u2019s case,\u2019 saying he cooperated and sat for a five hour-long interview.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Trump, on the other hand, was charged out of Special Counsel Jack Smith\u2019s investigation related to his retention of classified materials. Trump pleaded not guilty\u00a0to all 37 felony charges out of Smith\u2019s probe. The charges include willful retention of national defense information, conspiracy to obstruct justice and false statements.<\/p>\n

Trump, the 2024 GOP front-runner, was then charged with an additional three counts as part of a superseding indictment out of Smith\u2019s investigation \u2014 an additional count of willful retention of national defense information and two additional obstruction counts. Trump pleaded not guilty.<\/p>\n

That trial is set to begin on May 20.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u2018They should immediately drop the case against me,\u2019 Trump told Fox News Digital on Thursday. \u2018I am covered by the Presidential Records Act \u2014 he wasn\u2019t. He had many, many times more documents \u2014 totally unguarded. Mine were always surrounded by Secret Service and in locked rooms.\u2019\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u2018Deranged Jack Smith should drop the case immediately against us.\u2019\u00a0<\/p>\n

Trump added: \u2018It is election interference\u2026. I did absolutely nothing wrong.\u2019\u00a0<\/p>\n\n

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