First Lady Jill Biden on Saturday explained why President Biden forgot the year of his son Beau’s death in an interview with Special Counsel Robert Hur.
The first lady slammed Mr. Xu in a campaign email to donors, claiming that Justice Department officials only included the details to score “political points.” Her grief over the loss of her son cannot be measured in “years,” she said.
“We should give everyone a reprieve. I can’t imagine anyone trying to use our son’s death to score political points,” she wrote in an email.
“If you’ve ever experienced a loss like that, you know it’s not measured in years, it’s measured in grief,” she added. “Trust me, like anyone who loses a child, Beau and his death will never leave him.”
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First Lady Jill Biden on Saturday explained why President Biden forgot the year of his son Beau’s death in an interview with Special Counsel Robert Hur.
Biden’s son Beau died of brain cancer in 2015, and Biden cited his death as a key reason he decided not to run for president next year.
“May 30th is a day that will forever be etched in our hearts,” Jill said of Beau’s death. “It shattered me, it shattered our family. … What helped me, and what helped Joe, was finding a purpose. That drove Joe forward and you and the driving force behind us continuing to serve the country we love.”
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Hoar cited Biden’s inability to remember the timing of his son’s death as some examples of the president’s “fuzzy” memory. The special counsel’s report on Mr. Biden’s mishandling of classified documents said that Mr. Biden forgot important details in interviews, giving the impression that he was a “sympathetic, well-meaning elderly man with a poor memory.” Stated.
Biden’s son Beau died of brain cancer in 2015, and Biden cited his death as a key reason he decided not to run for president next year. (Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images)
“In interviews with our office, Mr. Biden’s memory was even worse,” the report said. “He doesn’t remember when he was vice president, he forgot the first day of the interview when his term ended (“If it was 2013, when would I have stopped being vice president?”), and he forgot the second day of the interview when his term began (“If it was 2013, when would I have stopped being vice president?”). in the morning) “Am I still the vice president?” ”).
“He did not remember when his son Beau died, even years later,” the report continued. “And his memory was hazy when describing the Afghanistan controversy, which was once so important to him, especially with General Carl Eikenberry, even though General Eikenberry was actually an ally. Mr. Biden, in his Thanksgiving memo to President Obama, quoted his approval. ”
First Lady Jill Biden accused Special Counsel Robert Hur of trying to score political points by criticizing President Biden’s memory. (AP/Manuel Balce Senator)
Biden was furious at the report during a press conference last week, when reporters asked him if he was still capable of running the White House.
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“I mean well. And I’m an old man. And I know what I’m doing. I served as president. I got this country back on its feet. I don’t need his endorsement. ” Biden said of Hur.
Shortly after, he misidentified Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi as the “President of Mexico.”
The Associated Press contributed to this report
