President Biden sought to defend his mental acuity during a news conference Thursday night, following what many media outlets have described as politically damaging to the president.
The president gave a short address to the nation from the White House Thursday night, fielding a barrage of questions from reporters about concerns about his age and memory. The latest developments stem from special counsel Robert Hur’s report on Biden’s handling of classified documents. Biden began referring to Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi as the “President of Mexico” shortly after claiming that he had “no problem” with his own memory.
Mr. Biden also appeared visibly upset when he responded to Mr. Xu’s report’s claim that he did not remember when his son, Beau, died.
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President Biden sought to defend his mental acuity during a news conference Thursday night, following what many media outlets have described as politically damaging to the president. (Reuters)
of new york times He called the event a “political disaster.”
Axios wrote that Biden’s performance Thursday night was abysmal. A nightmare for his staff.
“For years, President Biden’s advisers have sought to avoid what suddenly burst into view for more than six hours on Thursday: vivid footage of an elderly, frustrated man struggling in public.” His every move has been carefully choreographed,” Axios reported.
The newspaper also interviewed members of Congress who agreed that the president’s recent gaffes cast doubt on his ability to reelect, and called Biden’s press conferences “shaky.”
“One House Democrat called Biden’s gaffe ‘terrible’ and questioned why the president’s staff allowed him to hold a press conference ‘late at night after a full day’ instead of Friday morning. — then field reporters yelled questions), when he was ‘fresh,”’ Axios reported.
A former Biden White House official told Axios that the president’s press conferences were[b]Rootal. ”
Biden embarrasses Mexican, Egyptian presidents by defending ‘subtle’ memory: ‘Hard to watch’
The Guardian reported that Biden was “belligerent and emotional and, not for the first time, paid the price for answering one question too many.” (Screenshot/Biden speech)
guardian Biden was “belligerent and emotional, but not for the first time, he answered one question too many times and paid the price,” the report said.
“At the time, Biden protested that his memory was fine and that age didn’t matter, but then he stepped into it again by mistakenly calling Egyptian leader Abdel Fattah al-Sisi ‘President of Mexico.’ This continued. He claims that he recently met François Mitterrand of France and Helmut Kohl of Germany, both of whom had already passed away.
business insider The press conference summed it up as “a bad night for an enraged Biden.”
washington post He said Biden’s performance in discussing the death of his son Beau, which was mentioned in Ho’s report, was filled with “anger.”
The report found that Biden had “vague” memories of his previous years in office and the death of his son Beau. “In interviews with our office, Mr. Biden’s memory was even worse,” the report said. “He doesn’t remember when he was vice president, and he forgets the first day of the interview at the end of his term (“If it was 2013, when did you stop being vice president?”) and the interview I forgot about it on the second day. when his term began (“2009, Will I Still be Vice President?”).
Politico responds He called Hoar’s report a “chilling assessment of Joe Biden’s mental acuity.”
FOX News’ Lindsey Cornick and Joseph A. Wolfsohn contributed to this report.
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