Vice President Kamala Harris pushed back forcefully on Friday against a special counsel report that questioned President Biden’s memory, describing it as “politically motivated.”
“The way the president’s demeanor in that report was characterized could not be more wrong on the facts and clearly politically motivated,” Ms. Harris said in response to questions from reporters at the White House.
She also said Mr. Biden had sat down for in-person interviews with the special counsel’s office just a day after the Oct. 7 Hamas attack on Israel.
“It was an intense moment for the commander in chief of the United States of America,” Ms. Harris said. “He was in front of it all, coordinating and directing leaders who are in charge of America’s national security.”
The vice president’s first comments about the report provided a glimpse into how the White House will proceed after the report by Robert K. Hur, the special counsel, into Mr. Biden’s handling of classified documents concluded that he was a “well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory” and that he had “diminished faculties in advancing age.”
@ExuberantHareRepublican4mos4MO
It wasn’t just one verbal slip up. He also said that it was not the judgement of the “press” that he was too old, when he clearly meant to say it wasn’t the judgement of the public. Which doesn’t make much more sense anyway, since polls overwhelmingly show that yes, most of the public does think Biden is too old.
I, for one, am looking forward to everything costing much less again under another Trump administration.
@WelfareBrianDemocrat4mos4MO
So exactly how will that work? How will Trump create disinflation. Are not prices for most materials set in global markets? Are companies suddenly going transform from profit-maximizing monopolists to benevolent caretakers of public needs?
Please explain exactly how Trump would reverse prices. Be specific.
@FinickyBureaucr4tGreen4mos4MO
You might want to review the current statistics that we are doing far better than other industrialized nations in terms of inflation and now lowering inflation in the wake of post-pandemic global repercussions. If you get your wish for Trump, look for global instability once he hands Ukraine over to Russia and China is given carte blanche to throw its weight around the Pacific. Trump left a mess for Biden and others to clean up.
It's no secret that Biden is a senior citizen. But aside from the occasional verbal gaffe--the kind he has always made, and which many of us make, as well--he has always struck me as a generally sharp President, both in his appearances before cameras and in his decisions and policies. With the thinnest of margins in Congress, he managed to shepherd through multiple big laws that have benefited Americans, like the pandemic relief bill and the infrastructure bill and the Inflation Reduction Act and the semiconductor bill, laws that have gotten us back to a very good economy. By contrast,… Read more
@GoofyBuzzardGreen4mos4MO
I'm surprised that whenever I read about Biden's verbal gaffes they are never described as a lingering symptom of the stutter he had in his youth. Overcoming it is a constant task that doesn't disappear. I have no doubt that as he gets older it gets harder to control, but that has nothing to do with mental capacity.
Exactly. When Biden speaks his brain must run though his next sentence searching fo troublesome words and finding substitutes.
I doubt many of the young whiners here could do that.
Anybody can throw their hat into the ring for the top nomination. Two challengers did not well in the primary we just had.
Jump in if you can do better.
@ISIDEWITH4mos4MO
Let me say that I think Biden Rocks!! I am amazed at how much he has been able to accomplish, especially having to deal with this totally dysfunctional house of representatives. I think he has been one of the most effective Presidents we've had in my lifetime and I'm 63.
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