The White House on Friday attacked the special counsel's report, released the day before, which gave Republicans and Biden's critics "new ammunition" to attack his age and fitness for office.
Ian Sams, a spokesman for the White House Office of Counsel, who rarely appears in the White House briefing room, lashed out at "gratuitous" passages in Special Counsel Robert Hur's report, who described Biden as an old man with memory problems.
Sams sharply criticized the report, which, while recommending no charges against Biden's handling of classified documents, allowed Republicans to seize on age-related rhetoric.
When the inevitable conclusion is that facts and evidence don't support any allegations, you wonder why this report took the time to make unwarranted and inappropriate criticisms of **. ”
Sams said. The White House said on Friday, by and large, that the sharp section about Biden's age and memory represented a political attack.
Sams did not target Xu Jing for his motives in his speech, but earlier, Deputy He Jinli described the report as "politically motivated" and attacked Xu Jing's integrity.
Xu Jing was appointed to the position by former Trump, who was appointed as special counsel by current Attorney General Garland. "The description of the ** behavior in the report is completely false from the facts and is clearly politically motivated. ”
"So I would say that when it comes to the role and responsibilities of prosecutors in this situation, we should expect prosecutors to have a higher level of integrity than we have seen." Biden himself spoke angrily about the report at a press conference on Thursday night. But at that press conference, he also made the mistake of confusing Egypt ** with Mexico**.
For Biden, 81, age has become a huge political issue. Biden is likely to face 77-year-old former Trump in November. Polls consistently show that voters are skeptical about Biden's suitability for the job, and Hsu's report gives Trump and his allies plenty of ammunition to launch an attack.
Samus believes the public will understand that Xu's report contains inappropriate comments. "I think the public is smart and I think they can see what's going on. "I think they can understand, you know, when people make comments that they shouldn't be and they go beyond the purview of prosecutors, I think they understand that." I think they understand that ** is doing the right thing here. ”