Special counsel report referenced Biden as \u2018a sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory\u2019; unclear if foreign aid bill has votes to pass<\/p>\n
Biden defends his memory in surprise speech after special counsel report<\/a>Six key takeaways from Biden special counsel report<\/a><\/p>\n Good morning, US politics blog readers. Yesterday was a doozy for Joe Biden<\/strong>. The president received what should have been good news when special counsel Robert Hur<\/strong> announced no charges were warranted<\/a> after investigating the classified documents found at his residence last year. But Hur contained in his lengthy report several references to Biden not being able to remember things, and said one reason why he would not recommend prosecuting the president is because jurors would see him as \u201ca sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory\u201d. At 81 years old, Biden\u2019s age is expected to be a major factor on voters\u2019 minds as he campaigns for re-election, and in an unscheduled late night speech<\/a>, he hit back at Hur\u2019s claims, saying \u201cmy memory is fine,\u201d but also mixed up the presidents of Egypt and Mexico.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, we may hear more from Congress today on the chances of passing aid to Israel and Ukraine, one of the Biden\u2019s priorities. The Senate took an initial step to approving the legislation yesterday, but it\u2019s unclear if it has the votes to pass the chamber, and whether the GOP will insert hardline immigration policies (which the party had, bizarrely, rejected<\/a> earlier this week). Even if the legislation does make it through, Republican House speaker Mike Johnson<\/strong> has not said that he will put it up for a vote.<\/p>\n German chancellor Olaf Scholz<\/strong> is in Washington DC, and will meet with Biden at 3pm ET.<\/p>\n Now we wait<\/strong> for the supreme court\u2019s decision on Donald Trump<\/strong>\u2019s ballot eligibility, after the justices yesterday signaled<\/a> they were skeptical of arguments to disqualify him for his involvement in January 6.<\/p>\n White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre<\/strong> will take reporters\u2019 question at 1pm.<\/p>\n Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Special counsel report referenced Biden as \u2018a sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory\u2019; unclear if foreign aid bill has votes to pass Biden defends his memory in surprise speech after special counsel reportSix key takeaways from Biden special counsel report Good morning, US politics blog readers. Yesterday was a doozy for Joe Biden. … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3998\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}