“Poor memory”: Joe Biden to not face charges in classified papers case

A prosecutor, on Thursday, announced that US President Joe Biden, termed “elderly,” will not be charged for knowingly taking classified documents upon leaving the vice presidency in 2017.

In a report, Special Counsel Robert Hur said that he opted against bringing criminal charges after a 15-month investigation. He said that because Biden cooperated and described him as a “well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory.”

“Mr. Biden would likely present himself to a jury, as he did during our interview of him, as a sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory,” wrote Hur.

In a rebuttal, Biden said that his “memory was fine.” Overflowing with emotion during remarks at the White House, he took a swing at the attorney’s suggestion that he had forgotten when his son Beau had died.

Biden grew emotional about the inclusion of his son in the special counsel report. “How in the hell dare he raise that. Frankly, when I was asked the question I thought to myself, it wasn’t any of their damn business,” Biden said.

He further added that the accusation against him of willfully keeping the documents was “just plain wrong.” “My memory is fine,” Biden said, adding that he was happy that a special prosecutor looked into the case.

Hur’s conclusion ensured that Biden, unlike Donald Trump, would not be imprisoned for mishandling government documents.

However, this episode might come as an obstacle as he will try to convince his voters come November elections, for a second term. At 81, he is the oldest to sit in the Oval Office.

Hur, in his observations, wrote that Biden displayed a “severely limited” memory when he was questioned by the prosecution team. Hur wrote that the POTUS forgot what year he started his term as VP and when it ended.

In response, Biden’s lawyers said that the memory lapses were normal for someone who’s trying to describe the events that happened years back. “Such comments have no place in a Department of Justice report,” they wrote in comments included in Hur’s report.

Biden’s lawyers criticized Hur for overreach when the report was released. “It was plain from the outset that criminal charges were not warranted,” his personal lawyer Bob Bauer said. “Yet the special counsel could not refrain from investigative excess.”

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