President Joe Biden joked about his age days after special counsel Robert Hur decided not to charge him for mishandling classified documents because a jury would have likely not convicted him as “a well-meaning elderly man with a poor memory.”
“I know I don’t look like it, but I’ve been around awhile,” Biden told the National Association of Counties Legislative Conference in Washington, D.C., on Monday. “I do remember that.”
Biden used his remarks to underscore his administration’s investments in local communities, particularly through the bipartisan infrastructure package, and relate to the crowd by recalling his three years on the New Castle County Council before he became one of Delaware’s senators in 1973.
“One more thing I forgot. I forgot to mention New Castle County, Delaware,” he said, returning to the lectern after closing his remarks. “God love you.”
Biden also used the address to underscore differences between himself and likely 2024 Republican nominee Donald Trump, referring to him as “the fella who’s running again” before giving the sign of the cross and thanking election workers after their 2020 contest.
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“Thank you for your physical courage,” he said. “The idea that I ever thought I’d be … thanking somebody for being an election worker because they’re putting their life at risk? Something’s wrong, folks. We’ve got to change the attitude in this country.”
In his almost 400-page report, Hur detailed his decision not to prosecute Biden criminally, unlike special counsel Jack Smith and Trump, including the likelihood that a jury would sympathize with him and that he could not remember, “even within several years,” when his son Beau Biden died, among other important dates.
