Joe Biden’s fitness for the presidency was thrust to the centre of the 2024 White House race after Robert Hur, the special counsel investigating his handling of classified documents, issued a report on Thursday (Friday AEDT) citing troubling memory lapses Biden experienced while being interviewed during the probe last year.
The assessment of Biden’s mental confusion – which triggered an angry response from him at a hastily arranged press conference on Thursday night – overshadowed the report’s conclusion, which was that the US Justice Department would not issue criminal charges against the president.
