Vice President Kamala Harris lashed out at special counsel Robert Hurt over his scathing report questioning President Biden’s mental acuity, saying his comments were “politically motivated.”
“The way the president’s demeanor in that report was characterized could not be more wrong on the facts and clearly politically motivated, gratuitous,” Ms. Harris told reporters Friday. “And so I will say that when it comes to the role and responsibility of a prosecutor in a situation like that, we should expect there to be a higher level of integrity of what we saw.”
She went on to say, after attending an event on community violence, that Mr. Hur’s comments about the president’s faulty memory were “gratuitous, inaccurate and inappropriate.”
Ms. Harris’ remarks come the day after Mr. Hur issued his nearly 400-page report about Mr. Biden’s mishandling of classified documents. Mr. Hur did not recommend criminal charges, but he characterized the president as a forgetful old man who would appear sympathetic to a jury.
The report states that Mr. Biden twice could not remember when he was vice president and didn’t remember when his son Beau died.
Ms. Harris said Mr. Biden sat for interviews with the special counsel’s team for two days after Israel was attacked by Hamas on Oct. 7. She told reporters that she was in almost every meeting on the Middle East with the president and saw no signs of mental decline.
“The president was in front of and on top of it all, asking questions and requiring that America’s military and intelligence community and diplomatic community would figure out and know how many people are dead, how many Americans, how many hostages, is the situation stable?” she said.
She continued, “He was in front of it all, coordinating and directing leaders who are in charge of America’s national security, not to mention our allies around the globe.”
Ms. Harris is the latest White House official to push back on the Hur report, which has become a legal gift for Republicans but a political nightmare for the president.
• Jeff Mordock can be reached at jmordock@washingtontimes.com.
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