‘Political hit-job’: White House launches fierce attack against Biden probe age comments
10 months, 2 weeks ago

‘Political hit-job’: White House launches fierce attack against Biden probe age comments

Hindustan Times  

The White House launched a fierce fightback Friday against a devastating special counsel report that criticized Joe Biden's failing memory, describing it as a political hit-job on the president in an election year. "The way that the president's demeanor in that report was characterized could not be more wrong on the facts and clearly politically motivated," Harris said when asked about special counsel Robert Hur's report. The spokesman for the White House Counsel's Office Ian Sams stopped short of saying Hur was partisan but suggested he felt under pressure to "go beyond his remit" because of the polarized US political situation. The White House's Sams also played down suggestions that the report's age criticisms could hurt Biden in the polls in November, saying "I think the public is smart."

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Daily Mail  

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LA Times  

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