The special prosecutor Robert Hur decided on Thursday that the president of the USA, Joe Biden, will not be prosecuted for retaining and disclosing classified documentsbut warned that Biden’s practices “They present serious risks to national security” and that a jury would be embarrassed to convict ”an old man with a bad memory”.
In 2022, they were found classified documents in a Biden home in Wilmington, Delaware (northeast), and in a former office. They date back to when he was vice president (2009-2017) of Barack Obama.
Appointed in January 2023 by Merrick GarlandAttorney General, Special Counsel Robert Hur concluded that “Criminal charges are not warranted in this matter”. But he described Biden, 81, as an “old man with a bad memory.”
“The memory of Mr. Biden It also seemed to have significant limitations“says the report on page numbered 207, which describes some recordings from 2017 about Afghanistan in which conversations “They are often painfully slow, with Mr. Biden struggling to remember events and sometimes struggling to read and relate his own notebook entries.”.
The report takes a weight off Biden, a candidate for re-election in the November presidential elections who will probably compete against his predecessor, the Republican donald trump.
The latter faces a criminal trial accused of having taken many confidential documents with him when he left the White House and having refused to cooperate with investigators. However, Hur estimates that the current president His memory is so poor that he does not even remember when he was vice president and when his son Beau died, who died of cancer in 2015..
A Trump spokeswoman Karoline Leavittreacted by posting on the social network X: “How are we supposed to trust his ability to lead our country if his memory has ‘significant limitations’?!?”
The White House said it is “satisfied” with the decision not to file charges against Biden, but disagrees “with a series of inaccurate and inappropriate comments in the special counsel’s report.”
Joe Biden confused Germany’s Angela Merkel with the late Helmut Kohl
The president of USA, Joe Bidenmistakenly referred Wednesday night to a conversation he had with Angela Merkel in 2021 as if it had taken place with the German chancellor Helmut Kohlwho died in 2017, his second such confusion this week.
At a reception in New York to raise money for his re-election bid, Biden, 81, changed a story that is a staple of his speech to including Kohl in place of Angela Merkel, who was in power at the time of the conversation he referenced, at the G7 summit in 2021.
The reference occurred when Biden was speaking about the January 6, 2021 attack on the Capitol by supporters of then-President Donald Trump, who is seeking the Republican presidential nomination this year.
“When I was first elected president, I went to a G7 meeting with the seven heads of state from Europe and Britain. I sat down and said, ‘Well, America is back.’ and the president of France looked at me and said, ‘For how long?’ He had never put it to me like that,” Biden said.
“Then Helmut Kohl from Germany looked at me and said: ‘What would you say, Mr. President, if tomorrow morning you picked up the London Times and found out that 1,000 people had broken down the doors of the British Parliament and killed some (people) as they entered,'” Biden said.
When asked about the matter, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters that “as far as the names and what I was trying to say, a lot of people, elected officials… they already know, sometimes it can be expressed badly“. Then, he listed several politicians who have expressed themselves poorly in a similar way. “It happens to all of us, it is common,” he highlighted.
In response to a question about Biden’s general health, he only said that His previous physical examinations had given him a clean bill of health and he indicated that he would undergo another examination.
Joe Biden confuses Emmanuel Macron with another former French president
The president of United States, Joe Bidenconfused his French counterpart, Emmanuel Macronwith the former French president François Mitterranddied almost 30 yearsin a campaign speech shared in the social networks.
At an event in Las Vegas On Sunday, the American leader of 81 years He told an anecdote about the reaction of Macron to a speech during a meeting of the G7 in 2020.
In addition to getting the name of the French ruler wrong, Biden also he confused his nationalityalthough it was immediately corrected. “I said, ‘America is back'”he said Biden in a video. “And Mitterrand from Germany, I mean, from France, looked at me and said, ‘You know, what? Why?’ How long are you coming back for?'”.
Then, a transcription of his words made by the White House inserted the correct name (Macron)in brackets.
The video with that confusion was widely viewed and shared in the social network.
Source: Ambito
