President Joe Biden’s personal attorney said Sunday he went to both the special counsel and the attorney general to register concerns over what he viewed to be pejorative and unnecessary digs at the president’s memory.
“This is a report that went off the rails,” Bob Bauer said on CBS’ Face the Nation Sunday. “It’s a shabby work product.”
The special counsel was investigating whether the president mishandled classified documents during his previous positions as vice president and senator, and found this week that no criminal charges were warranted.
But in building his argument for why no charges were necessary, Special Counsel Robert Hur, who was appointed by Attorney General Merrick Garland, detailed in part that Biden’s defense of any potential charges could possibly be that: “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.”
Jesus Christ, Joe. Let it go. Complaining about it extends the story. Firing Hur isn’t going to make people think you’re not 80 years old. Either prople already think he’s a partisan hack taking cheap shots or they think he’s a patriot for raising legitimate concerns. Either way, you can’t argue you don’t have memory problems whilst making gaffes and having memory lapses in that very speech, because that’s the part of the story people remember.
You need to change ths subject and start rebuilding your image with some gaffe-free speeches and interviews.