{"id":15412,"date":"2024-02-12T00:46:28","date_gmt":"2024-02-12T00:46:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/12\/biden-allies-go-on-defense-blitz-following-hur-report-bucket-of-bs\/"},"modified":"2024-02-12T00:46:28","modified_gmt":"2024-02-12T00:46:28","slug":"biden-allies-go-on-defense-blitz-following-hur-report-bucket-of-bs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/12\/biden-allies-go-on-defense-blitz-following-hur-report-bucket-of-bs\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden allies go on defense blitz following Hur report: \u2018Bucket of BS\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Allies of President Biden joined Sunday morning shows to defend the commander in chief following Special Counsel Robert Hur\u2019s months-long report on classified documents that characterized Biden as an \u2018elderly man with a poor memory.\u2019\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u2018He\u2019s smart. He\u2019s on his game,\u2019 Biden campaign co-chair Mitch Landrieu told NBC\u2019s \u2018Meet the Press\u2019 on Sunday.\u00a0\u2018And as Secretary Mayorkas said a minute ago, when you go in to brief the president, you better have your big boy pants on. And this kind of sense that he\u2019s not ready for this job, it\u2019s just a bucket of BS that\u2019s so deep, your boots will get stuck.\u2019<\/p>\n

Landrieu and Biden\u2019s personal attorney Robert Bauer joined morning shows on Sunday to defend the president\u2019s mental clarity following Hur\u2019s report. The report, released Thursday, described the president\u2019s memory as \u2018hazy,\u2019 \u2018fuzzy,\u2019 \u2018faulty,\u2019 \u2018poor,\u2019 and suggested Biden did not remember when his son Beau Biden died.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The report ultimately decided against criminally charging the president for\u00a0the possession of classified documents after he served as vice president.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u2018We conclude that no criminal charges are warranted in this matter,\u2019 the report, released Thursday, states. \u2018We would reach the same conclusion even if the Department of Justice policy did not foreclose criminal charges against a sitting president.\u2019<\/p>\n

Bauer, who appeared on CBS\u2019s \u2018Face the Nation,\u2019 described Hur\u2019s report as \u2018shoddy\u2019 and riddled with \u2018factual misstatements.\u2019 Following the report\u2019s public release, the White House counsel\u2019s office requested Hur revise some of the language in the report.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u2018The investigation could have been concluded in two or three months. It went on for over 15 months. And so, along with the legal conclusion comes this flood of characterizations, factual misstatements, pejorative comments about the president that are inconsistent with DOJ policy and norms. And that, as you see over the last 48 hours, have been widely criticized by legal experts. This is not what prosecutors do. It is shoddy work product,\u2019 Bauer said Sunday.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Biden held a press conference Thursday evening where he fielded questions from the media regarding his mental clarity, memory and age following Hur\u2019s report. Amid Biden defending his mental state, he confused Egyptian President Abdel Fatah El-Sisi as the \u2018president of Mexico,\u2019 sparking concern stateside as well as abroad. Critics lampooned the president for the gaffe, as some called for the invocation of the 25th Amendment, which stipulates the presidential order of succession if a commander in chief is unable to fulfill their duties, dies, resigns or becomes incapacitated.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Bauer doubled-down throughout his interview Sunday that the Hur report was \u2018shoddy\u2019 and \u2018shabby,\u2019 and detailed that he was in the room when Biden answered the special counsel\u2019s questions across two days and that the president was \u2018engaged\u2019 during the interview and answered to his \u2018best recollection.\u2019<\/p>\n

\u2018I recall from that interview a president who engaged with the questions very directly and gave his best recollection. And in fact, I think was quite helpful to the special counsel,\u2019 Bauer said, adding that Hur decided to \u2018cherry pick in a very misleading way\u2019 when he wrote the report.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Bauer said Biden \u2018does not\u2019 have any issues with his memory, and provided a \u2018vignette from the interview room.\u2019<\/p>\n

\u2018There were a couple of occasions when the special counsel, who had flagged at the beginning that sometimes he asks imprecise questions, asked questions that the president picked apart as a matter of logic. He showed that the questions didn\u2019t have a logical underpinning. Now, everybody in the room recognized that was the case. That showed the president was listening carefully and understood precisely what was wrong with those questions,\u2019 Bauer said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Landrieu in his remarks Sunday slammed Hur\u2019s \u2018ad hominem attack\u2019 within the report that questioned the president\u2019s mental capacity, calling it \u2018egregious.\u2019\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u2018This ad hominem attack questions the president\u2019s capacity and I want to speak to that very clearly because I can testify because I\u2019ve been working very closely with this president for the past two years. I\u2019ve been knowing him for 30 years. I have met with him personally. I\u2019ve met with him with two people, five people, 10 people. I have been on trips with him crisscrossing the country, rebuilding America based on this incredible infrastructure bill that was passed. And I\u2019m telling you this guy is tough,\u2019 he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas also joined \u2018Meet the Press\u2019 on Sunday, arguing the president is \u2018sharp.\u2019\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u2018The most difficult part about a meeting with President Biden is preparing for it because he is sharp, intensely probing and detail-oriented and focused,\u2019 Mayorkas said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The secretary also said that he and other Cabinet members have \u2018not at all\u2019 considered invoking the 25th Amendment to remove and replace the president.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u2018I don\u2019t engage in politics. I\u2019m responsible for governing and following the president\u2019s agenda, which I scrupulously do,\u2019 he said.<\/p>\n

The White House released a memo Saturday, titled \u2018We don\u2019t blame Republican officials for their desperation to forget the Biden presidency,\u2019 which detailed Biden\u2019s successes as president, including helping \u2018secure the release of over 100 of the hostages taken by Hamas,\u2019 and how Republicans and Democrats have previously lauded Biden for his mental sharpness.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u2018President Biden\u2019s experience, character, and drive have made him the most successful president in modern history, getting the country back on its feet after inheriting a nation in crisis and going on to achieve goals that eluded his predecessors for decades,\u2019 the memo reads.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n

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