The White House press secretary slammed Special Counsel Robert Hur’s assessment of Biden at Tuesday’s briefing and claimed the president’s work ethic is strong.
Amid mounting questions about the president’s age, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre criticized Special Counsel Robert Hur on Monday and suggested Biden could do more in one hour than most people could in a full day.
Hur’s report on Biden’s mishandling of classified documents, released Thursday, recommended no criminal charges against the president.
The investigation, however, laid out how the president struggled to remember key details of his life during interviews with investigators, including when he served as vice president and when his son Beau died.
When a reporter at Monday’s press briefing asked Jean-Pierre when they could expect to speak with Biden’s doctor, she instead pivoted to a critique of Hur, noting that he is a «Republican prosecutor» and «not a medical doctor.»
«It’s not for him to speak to. It’s just not,» she said regarding Hur’s assessment of Biden’s memory.
