President Joe Biden has reportedly become more frustrated with Attorney General Merrick Garland on different matters as per Politico.
It has been noted that on Thursday, Special Counsel Robert Hur, whom Garland appointed to investigate Biden’s retention of classified documents from his time as a senator and vice president, released a detailed report on the matter.
The Republican attorney concluded that the president should not be criminally charged in part because a jury could easily find him “as a sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory.” Hur also said Biden struggled to remember “when he was vice president” and “when his son Beau died.”
A furious Biden responded by holding a press conference at the White House just hours later and insisted his memory is fine. He also railed against Hur’s inclusion of his late son, saying, “How in the hell dare he raise that?”
Politico reported that Biden and his advisers believe Hur went beyond his charge and that parts of his report were gratuitous and that Garland should have called on Hur to make edits:
Biden and his closest advisers believe Hur went well beyond his purview and was gratuitous and misleading in his descriptions, according to those two people, who were granted anonymity to speak freely. And they put part of the blame on Garland, who they say should have demanded edits to Hur’s report, including around the descriptions of Biden’s faltering memory.
White House staffers have also questioned Garland’s decision to appoint a special counsel in the case at all.
