Former White House press secretary turned cable news host Jen Psaki on Sunday slammed special counsel Robert Hur for including an evaluation of President Biden’s memory and recall skills as part of an investigation into his handling of classified documents. did.
Psaki said on MSNBC’s “Inside with Jen Psaki” that the report’s details gave former President Trump’s political team a “great old gift.”
Special Counsel Robert Hur released a 388-page report last Thursday concluding that Biden “intentionally” kept classified documents but stopped short of charging the president with any crime. But the report’s most controversial details were details about Biden’s memories and recollections, which described the president as a “sympathetic, well-meaning older man with a poor memory.”
Evaluations of the president’s memory have dominated coverage of Hsu’s report, and many of Biden’s political opponents have detailed why he is unfit to serve another term.
“I didn’t know he knew that [Hur] “He was also a doctor, and he included this line that basically questioned Joe Biden’s cognitive abilities,” Psaki quipped on Sunday. “…Now, I’m not going to sit here and act like the president is a young spirit either. He’s not. He’ll tell you he’s not either. He’s 81 years old. is.”
Psaki served as White House press secretary under the Biden administration, retiring in May 2022.
“It’s not a story. It’s a fact. And the constant questions about his age are one of the biggest challenges his campaign faces. They know it,” she added. “But let’s not forget who 81-year-old Joe Biden is running against is Donald Trump, not a 77-year-old fairy. Whatever you want, 11 It’s time to settle in with the fact that two baby boomers will be vying for the White House in the moon.”
Psaki then referenced Biden’s press conference hours after the report’s release, in which Biden mistakenly referred to Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi when answering questions about the Israel-Hamas war. He called him the “President of Mexico.”
“Look, President Biden makes gaffes. He’s been doing it for…years. But if you’re going to pay for a gaffe game, let’s just play a gaffe game,” Psaki said, adding that President Trump played a series of clips that appeared to mix up names and locations at various times.
Psaki said she could fill “an entire show, hours of programming” with Trump’s gaffes, and asked, “What would Dr. Heo say about all of this?” Full of curiosity. ”
“But to be honest, that’s beside the point, because Trump’s gaffes don’t even come close to the biggest risk of electing him. And who is the bigger gaffe machine, the 77-year-old and the 81-year-old? “If we continue to focus on questions such as ‘What is the difference in mental acuity?’, we are all doing something very wrong,” she continued.
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