Special counsel hits Biden with damaging charge: His memory is going

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BIDEN’S ‘LIMITED PRECISION AND RECALL’: When the report from special counsel Robert Hur was released yesterday, the initial headline was that President Joe Biden would not face criminal prosecution despite the finding he “willfully retained and disclosed classified materials after his vice presidency when he was a private citizen.”

But as reporters read further into the 388-page report, a far more damaging allegation was detailed: that the 81-year-old president was suffering from serious memory loss, which would make it difficult to convince a jury that retention of highly classified documents was not simply an innocent mistake.

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