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How Biden, his allies are pushing back against claims about his memory

A special counsel says the 81-year-old president couldn’t remember major milestones in his life
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President Joe Biden arrives on Marine One at Delaware Air National Guard Base in New Castle, Del., Friday, Feb. 9, 2024. Biden is spending the weekend in Wilmington, Del. (AP Photo/Stephanie Scarbrough)

President Joe Biden’s Democratic allies are launching an aggressive defense against a special counsel’s explosive claims that the 81-year-old president couldn’t remember major milestones in his life, trying to diminish the significance of the prosecutor’s allegations that Biden was too forgetful to be charged for mishandling classified material.

Biden set the angry tone hours after special counsel Robert Hur’s report was released, dismissing the report’s conclusions about his memory and insisting he hadn’t forgotten the year his son Beau died, as Hur claimed.

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