Peter Doocy Straight Up Asks Biden, ‘How Bad Is Your Memory and Can You Continue as President?’
President Joe Biden took a blunt question from Fox News White House Correspondent Peter Doocy, who asked the president about his mental acuity and whether he can continue as president.
On Thursday, Special Counsel Robert Hur released his report detailing the findings of his investigation into Biden’s retention of classified material from his days as a senator and vice president. The report concluded that the president “willfully retained and disclosed classified materials after his vice presidency when he was a private citizen.”
Hur explained Biden should not be criminally charged in part because the president would likely be considered by a jury to be a sympathetic figure because of a “poor memory.” The report stated Biden ‘did not remember when he was vice president” and “when his son [Beau Biden] died.”
Addressing the nation from the White House on Thursday, Biden railed against the report before taking questions. Doocy was first out of the chute. Here is their exchange:
DOOCY: President Biden, something the special counsel said in his report is that one of the reasons you were not charged is because in his description, “you are a well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory.”
BIDEN: I’m well-meaning and I’m an elderly man and I know what the hell I’m doing. I’ve been president and I put this country back on its feet. I don’t need his recommendation. It’s totally–
DOOCY: How bad is your memory and can you continue as president?
BIDEN: My memory is so bad I let you speak.
Another reporter chimed in and asked, “Do you believe your memory has gotten worse?”
“My memory is fine,” Biden replied. “Take a look at what I’ve done since I’ve become president. None of you thought could I pass any of the things I got passed. How’d that happen? You know, I guess I just forgot what was going on.”
Watch above via Fox News.