The special prosecutor investigating accusations of mishandling of confidential documents by Joe Biden decided not to recommend prosecution in a report released Thursday that describes the US president as an “elderly man with a poor memory”.
Appointed in January 2023 by the American Minister of Justice Merrick Garland, special prosecutor Robert Hur concluded that “an indictment would not be justified” against Joe Biden, 81 years old.
This appointment followed the discovery in 2022 of classified documents dating from the time when Joe Biden was vice-president (2009-2017) in his residence in Wilmington, Delaware, as well as in a former office.
President Biden judged in a statement Thursday that “the matter is closed” and the White House lawyer welcomed the decision of the special prosecutor not to initiate proceedings, but regretted “inappropriate comments” of his go.
In his 388-page report, Mr. Hur notably mentions a five-hour interview spread over two days with Joe Biden during which he said he noticed that “his memory had gotten worse.”
“He no longer remembered when he was vice-president,” no longer knowing exactly in what year his mandate began or ended, nor exactly the year of the death of his eldest son Beau, he asserts. .
Joe Biden stressed in a press release that this interview took place in October 2023, in the very first days of the “international crisis” triggered by the unprecedented attack by Palestinian Hamas in Israel.
