Representative Madeleine Dean criticized former Special Counsel Robert Hur’s comments about President Biden’s memory recall regarding the death of his son Beau.
Hur had stated Biden did not remember the year Beau died but did provide the month and day, implying a faulty memory.
Dean said, “I found him to be a public servant, a straight shooter, but we did have the chance to say, look, what was this actually all about, this multi-hundred-page report? The report begins with this simple sentence: ‘We conclude that no criminal charges are warranted in this matter.’ First sentence, and that is repeated throughout the report.”
Dean argued this was an “inaccurate” and “unfair” characterization, saying Biden demonstrating recall of the month and day showed he did not have a memory problem.
She noted Hur’s report found no criminal charges warranted but that comments on Biden’s age and memory became a “lightning rod” and “muddied” coverage of the report.
“Unfortunately, the coverage of this report got muddied, I believe, because of throwing in of information about Mr. Biden being old, a sympathetic man with a poor memory. I found that to be very gratuitous, and I found it to be inaccurate, specifically, in one instance, regarding the death of Beau Biden. So, I thought that was most unfortunate,” she said.
Dean believed including such information on Biden’s memory was “gratuitous” and Hur would have known it could distort public perception of the report in the current “political climate.”
She added, “[I]t was rather gratuitous to say he had a faulty memory, couldn’t come up with a year, but he came up with a month and the day. So, I found that to be unfair and he knew, Mr. Hur had to know that that would be a bit of a poison of this report. It would be the lightning rod to which media and others would go, especially in a political climate.”
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