Biden’s Nightmare Week: Scrutiny Mounts Over Mental Fitness Following Damaging DOJ Report

The White House attacked the special counsel’s comments, calling them ‘gratuitous’ and ’politically motivated.’
Biden’s Nightmare Week: Scrutiny Mounts Over Mental Fitness Following Damaging DOJ Report
President Joe Biden speaks about Special Counsel Robert Hur’s report on his mishandling of classified documents in the Diplomatic Reception Room of the White House on Feb. 8, 2024. Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images
Emel Akan
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President Joe Biden has probably had one of the most difficult weeks of his political life, with his mental acuity called into question by a special counsel report detailing instances of memory lapses.

Special counsel Robert Hur’s report, issued on Feb. 8, found evidence that President Biden “willfully retained” and shared highly classified information after his vice presidency when he was a private citizen but determined that evidence didn’t support charging the president.

Emel Akan
Emel Akan
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Emel Akan is a senior White House correspondent for The Epoch Times, where she covers the policies of the Trump administration. Previously, she reported on the Biden administration and the first term of President Trump. Before her journalism career, she worked in investment banking at JPMorgan. She holds an MBA from Georgetown University.
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