The report of special prosecutor Robert Hur is causing a lot of talk in the United States. The one who had been appointed to investigate the discovery of documents classified as confidential at Joe Biden. He describes the president as a “friendly, elderly man with a bad temper.” Kamala Harris, the vice-president, denounces the “political motivations” of the prosecutor.
American Vice President Kamala Harris denounced on Friday the “political motivations” of special prosecutor Robert Hur, who on Thursday pointed out the “bad memory” and the age of Joe Biden. The magistrate’s report, released following an investigation into classified documents that the US president had in his possession, is “clearly politically motivated”, Kamala Harris, herself a former prosecutor, told reporters at the White House.
“A friendly, elderly man with a bad memory”
“The way the president’s attitude was portrayed in this report could not be more factually incorrect,” Kamala Harris also said. In a report released Thursday recommending against prosecution of 81-year-old Joe Biden, special prosecutor Robert Hur concluded that the president “knowingly kept and disclosed classified documents after his vice presidency while he was a private citizen ” but explained that “an indictment would not be justified”, particularly because a jury would give the benefit of the doubt to “a sympathetic, well-intentioned elderly man with a poor memory”.
He also wrote that Joe Biden’s memory “had gotten worse”: the president “no longer remembered when he was vice president” or exactly the year of the death of his eldest son, Beau. Robert Hur, a Republican and former federal prosecutor in Maryland, was appointed in January 2023 by the Biden administration’s Justice Minister, Merrick Garland, to investigate the discovery in December 2022 and January 2023 of classified documents dating from the he time when Joe Biden was vice-president (2009-2017) in his residence in Wilmington (Delaware) as well as in a former office.
The Democratic president is running for re-election in November and will most likely find on his way former President Donald Trump, 77 years old and the wide favorite in the Republican primaries. Donald Trump’s political supporters were delighted Thursday with the content of the report, notably assuring that Joe Biden was no longer “fit” to govern.