NY POST
President Biden went ballistic on special counsel Robert Hur for allegedly asking about his son Beau’s death — but a new report says the question never came up and Biden himself raised the topic.
The 81-year-old president was defending his cognitive abilities when he ripped Hur during a bellicose press conference Thursday night — but Biden’s memory appears to have failed him again.
“There’s even a reference that I don’t remember when my son died. How in the hell dare he raise that,” Biden fumed in a statement to reporters before taking questions. “Frankly, when I was asked the question, I thought to myself it wasn’t any of their damn business.”
Hur’s report on Biden’s alleged mishandling of classified information said the president’s cognitive decline is so perceptible that no jury would convict him for stashing records from his vice presidency and Senate tenure in his Delaware home and at a DC office.
NBC News reported Wednesday that the president himself brought up his son’s 2015 death from brain cancer during five hours of questioning on Oct. 8-9.
“It was the president, not Hur or his team, who first introduced Beau Biden’s death,” two sources familiar with the Biden interview told the outlet.
The special counsel noted that Biden would likely present himself to a jury as a “sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory” if he were to face trial.
“Biden raised his son’s death after being asked about his workflow at a Virginia rental home from 2016 to 2018, the sources said, when a ghost writer was helping him write a memoir about losing Beau to brain cancer in 2015,” according to the report.
The White House did not immediately respond to The Post’s request for comment.
Hur’s nearly 400-page report said that Biden presented himself as confused on many points and should not face criminal charges in part because Biden would likely present himself to a jury as a “sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory.”
Biden “did not remember when he was vice president, forgetting on the first day of the interview when his term ended (‘if it was 2013 — when did I stop being Vice President?’), and forgetting on the second day of the interview when his term began (‘in 2009, am I still Vice President?’),” the report says.
“He did not remember, even within several years, when his son Beau died [in May 2015]. And his memory appeared hazy when describing the Afghanistan debate that was once so important to him. Among other things, he mistakenly said he ‘had a real difference’ of opinion with General Karl Eikenberry, when, in fact, Eikenberry was an ally whom Mr. Biden cited approvingly in his Thanksgiving [2009] memo to President Obama.”
The president ended up compounding questions about his mental fitness when defending himself.
