Vice President Kamala Harris on Friday ripped into the special counsel’s report on President Biden’s handling of classified documents, condemning the stinging characterization of him as an elderly man with poor memory.
“The way that the president's demeanor in that report was characterized could not be more wrong on the facts, and clearly politically motivated, gratuitous,” Harris said. “When it comes to the role and responsibility of a prosecutor in a situation like that, we should expect that there would be a higher level of integrity than what we saw.”
Special counsel Robert Hur’s report, released on Thursday, did not recommend that Biden be charged with a crime, but it described the president as having memory issues during his interview with investigators, saying he “would likely present himself to a jury … as a sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory.”
The vice president also noted that interviews in the investigation were conducted following the events of October 7 — the day of the Hamas terrorist attacks on Israel.
“I was in almost every meeting with the president in the hours and days that followed — countless hours with the secretary of defense, the secretary of state, the heads of our intelligence community,” Harris said. “The president was in front of and on top of it all, asking questions and requiring that America's military, and intelligence community, and diplomatic community would figure out and know how many people were dead.”
“He was in front of it all,” Harris continued, “coordinating and directing leaders who are in charge of America's national security, not to mention our allies around the globe for days and up until now, months.”
