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Merrick Garland: would’ve been ‘absurd’ to strip special counsel’s report of Biden’s faulty memory
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1:05Now PlayingAttorney General Merrick Garland on Thursday defended himself from criticism – much of it coming from the White House – regarding the mentions of President Biden’s faulty memory included in special counsel Robert Hur’s report.
Garland, 71, argued that it would’ve been “absurd” to remove Hur’s assessment of the 81-year-old president’s mental fitness from the Justice Department’s findings in the Biden classified documents probe.
“The idea that an attorney general would edit or redact or censor the special counsel’s explanation for why the special counsel reached the decision that the special counsel did – that’s absurd,” Garland said during a DOJ press conference, in response to reporter’s question about whether the language Hur used to characterize Biden’s mental state was “appropriate.”
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