Article 6K9BT Special counsel says he was doing his job when he criticized Biden’s memory

Special counsel says he was doing his job when he criticized Biden’s memory

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Chris Stein in Washington
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Robert Hur, who investigated president over classified files, says at hearing before Congress I had to consider the president's memory'

Robert Hur, the justice department special counsel assigned to report on Joe Biden's possession of classified documents, told Congress he was just doing his job when he shook up the US election campaign by criticizing the president's apparent inability to recall certain events.

In his report released in February, Hur, a Republican former US attorney under Donald Trump, recommended Biden not be charged for possessing classified documents. But he infuriated the president's Democratic allies by making repeated references to Biden's age and memory as one reason for not indicting him, saying jurors would see him as a sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory".

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