Hours after last week's release of special counsel Robert Hur's report on Biden's handling of classified documents -- which described the president as a "well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory" and "diminished faculties" -- Team Biden pushed their man in front of reporters in a hopeless bid to demonstrate that his mind is fully intact.
It backfired in various ways, most notably when Biden referred to Egyptian President Sissi as the president of Mexico -- in a week in which he'd already twice confused the dead male German chancellor Helmut Kohl with the living female Angela Merkel, and confused the late French president François Mitterand with President Emmanuel Macron.
Now, sources say a more significant Biden statement during that press conference was also false.
First, some more background. In addition to not remembering what years he served as vice president, the special counsel report said that, in his interview with investigators, Biden "did not remember, even within several years, when his son Beau died."
At his press conference, Biden lashed out at Hur for insensitively grilling him about Beau's death from cancer at age 46:
“I know there’s some attention paid to some language in the report about my recollection of events. There’s even a reference that I don’t remember when my son died. How in the hell dare he raise that? Frankly, when I was asked the question, I thought to myself, it wasn’t any of their damn business.”
"How in the hell dare he raise that."
President Biden slams Special Counsel Robert Hur's claim that he struggled to remember details about his son Beau's death. pic.twitter.com/2d4sAlRuDC
— MSNBC (@MSNBC) February 9, 2024
Big Media ran with Biden's narrative. For example, at The New York Times, an utterly credulous, unquestioning Katie Rogers -- sounding every bit like a Biden campaign proxy -- devoted an article to Biden's Beau-centered attack on Hur, describing Biden's "chin quivering either from anger or sadness." In what's positioned as a straight news article, she concluded with this state-media salute:
A president who has infused his son’s memory into his presidency wanted to make one thing clear, to both the special counsel’s office and to his critics. “I don’t need anyone to remind me when he passed away,” Mr. Biden said.
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