Correspondent in Washington
Joe Biden forcefully asserted that he had a
“very good memory”
, before making a new mistake by confusing the Egyptian president with that of Mexico.
Shortly after the publication of the report of the investigation into his illegal possession of classified documents, the American president held a press conference at the White House on Thursday evening to refute the allegations about the degradation of his mental faculties contained in the document.
The report, which does not exonerate Biden, but gives up pursuing
“a nice, well-meaning old gentleman, but with a bad memory”,
deals a serious blow to the image of the president, a candidate for his own re-election.
Biden's age, at 81 the oldest American president in history, is a concern for more than three-quarters of voters, including half of Democrats, and a favorite angle of attack for Republicans, who present him as a senile old man.
The press conference organized…
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