‘Exploiting son’s death…’: US first lady slams reports about Biden’s age

She said Joe Biden’s experience and expertise are assets.

Washington:

First lady Jill Biden has come out to defend the health and memory of her husband, President Joe Biden, as she blasts the special prosecutor for exploiting her son’s death to score political points.

Her defense came in response to a voluminous report by special counsel Robert Hur, in which he said Biden, 81, “knowingly” mishandled classified documents as a private citizen.

The special counsel’s report earlier this week recommended against bringing any charges against Biden, accusing him of misusing classified documents when he was a private citizen, but made scathing observations about his mental health and memory and claimed the president even Can’t remember the date of the document. The death of his son.

“The reason I’m writing this letter is because of something else in the report: the inaccuracies and personal political attacks on Joe. Rather than just saying the case is closed, as others have done, the special prosecutor claimed Joe “cannot remember his son.” The year he died. “Believe me, like anyone who has lost a child, Beau and his death will never leave him,” Gill wrote in a mass email to her supporters on Saturday. “I hope you can imagine reading this. Feeling.” “That attack was not just as Joe’s wife, but as Beau’s mother. I don’t know what the special prosecutor was trying to accomplish,” she said.

Beau Biden, who died of brain cancer in 2015, appeared 16 times in the report prepared by Hull. Hour was a special counsel appointed to investigate Biden’s handling of classified documents while serving as vice president until 2017.

“We should extend grace to everyone and I can’t imagine anyone trying to use our son’s death to score political points. If you’ve experienced a loss like this, you know you don’t measure it in years – you measure it in grief,” she says.

“May 30 is a day that will forever be etched in our hearts. It shattered me, it shattered our family,” she said.

She said Biden’s experience and expertise are assets.

“It’s true that Joe is 81 years old, but he does more in an hour at 81 than most people do in a day. Joe has wisdom, empathy and vision. He delivers on his promise as president. Many promises, precisely because he learned a lot “in these 81 years. His age, combined with his experience and expertise, is an incredible asset and he proves that every day,” said Jill Biden.

“Look at everything he’s accomplished: He brought our country back from COVID. He brought our economy back from the brink. He created 14 million jobs. Gas prices went down. Currency Inflation went down. Energy costs went down. He got bipartisan legislation passed — even in this hyper-partisan environment. The media may not believe him, but I appreciate that you recognize the value he has for this country. Everything,” she said.

“Jo is the most resilient person I know,” she wrote.

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