Stefanik reacts to Special Counsel’s report on President Biden

WASHINGTON, D.C. – “My memory has not gotten worse,” U.S. President Joe Biden told reporters during a nationally televised address this week from the White House.

The President took time during his address to lash out against highlights from a report from DOJ Special Counsel Robert Hur, which suggested Biden willfully retained classified material at his Delaware home.

With several examples cited and based on evidence, the counsel’s report also raises doubt over President Biden’s current memory capabilities and overall mental health.

In response to Special Counsel Hur’s report, key congressional figures, including House Republican Chairwoman Elise Stefanik, released a statement that accuses the President of being unfit for the Oval Office for reportedly retaining such classified material.

“Not only does it demonstrate the President’s recklessness, but exposes a two-tiered system of justice that is indicting one President with politically motivated charges while carrying water for another amid similar allegations,” the statement reads.

Full statement below:

The Special Counsel’s finding that President Biden ‘willfully retained and disclosed classified materials’ and engaged in practices that ‘present serious risks to national security’ is deeply disturbing.

Not only does it demonstrate the President’s recklessness, but exposes a two-tiered system of justice that is indicting one President with politically motivated charges while carrying water for another amid similar allegations.

Among the most disturbing parts of this report is the Special Counsel’s justification for not recommending charges: namely that the President’s memory had such ‘significant limitations’ that he could not convince a jury that the President held a ‘mental state of willfulness’ that a serious felony requires.

A man too incapable of being held accountable for mishandling classified information is certainly unfit for the Oval Office.

In response, Biden told reporters that he regrets not personally overseeing the transfer of boxes from his Vice Presidential Office in 2017, as opposed to relying on staff to perform that task.

Elise Stefanik image.