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amid questions about the president’s mental acuity following the release of a special counsel’s report that cast the 81-year-old as an elderly man with “significant” memory problems.
But in the report, Hur characterized Biden as an elderly man with a very limited memory and said that the president couldn’t recall when he was Barack Obama’s vice president or when his son Beau died, claims that the White House and many Democrats slammed as “gratuitous” and out of bounds.Biden was particularly frustrated by the claim he’d forgotten when his son died, venting frustration at a contentious last-minute press conference at the White House on Thursday.
But as Republicans and the media got whipped up into a frenzy over the special counsel report and Biden again mixing up the names of world leaders, Romney waved the matter off. “So we can keep talking back and forth, but it comes back to the very core choice that we have as a nation: Do we want order over chaos? Do we want the truth over lying? Do we want virtue over just corruption and sleaze?” he said on a press call earlier in the day.At HuffPost, we believe that everyone needs high-quality journalism, but we understand that not everyone can afford to pay for expensive news subscriptions.
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