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Fox & Friends devoted a segment on Friday to the special counsel report on President Joe Biden’s classified documents case, which will not result in criminal charges. However, the right has jumped on one reason cited for not bringing charges, that Biden was a “well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory,” to claim that it means that Biden is incompetent to stand trial.
Co-hosts Steve Doocy, Lawrence Jones, Ainsley Earhardt, and Brian Kilmeade all echoed the claim by right-leaning commentators and politicians that the statement by special counsel Robert Hur meant that Biden was not competent to even stand trial. This claim was not made by Hur, who wrote the following in his report:
We have also considered that, at trial, Mr. Biden would likely present himself to a jury, as he did during our interview of him, as a sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory. It would be difficult to convince a jury that they should convict him — by then a former president well into his eighties — of a serious felony that requires a mental state of willfulness.
While this is an unflattering, even damning statement on Biden’s memory, there is no claim by Hur that Biden was considered incompetent to stand trial. However, the hosts still pushed that false claim.
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