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(10,131 posts)More quotes from the report:
"Mr. Biden's memory was significantly limited, both during his recorded interviews with the ghostwriter in 2017, and in his interview with our office in 2023."
"Mr. Biden's memory also appeared to have significant limitations-both at the
time he spoke to Zwonitzer in 2017, as evidenced by their recorded conversations, and
today, as evidenced by his recorded interview with our office. Mr. Biden's recorded
conversations with Zwonitzer from 2017 are often painfully slow, with Mr. Biden
struggling to remember events and straining at times to read and relay his own
notebook entries."
"In his interview with our office, Mr. Biden's memory was worse. He did not
remember when he was vice president, forgetting on the first day of the interview
when his term ended ("if it was 2013 - when did I stop being Vice President?" ) , and
forgetting on the second day of the interview when his term began ("in 2009, am I
still Vice President?" ) . He did not remember, even within several years, when his
son Beau died. And his memory appeared hazy when describing the Afghanistan
debate that was once so important to him. Among other things, he mistakenly said
he "had a real difference" of opinion with General Karl Eikenberry, when, in fact,
Eikenberry was an ally whom Mr. Biden cited approvingly in his Thanksgiving memo
to President Obama."
"Mr. Biden's apparent lapses and failures in February and April 2017 will likely appear consistent with the diminished faculties and faulty memory he showed in Zwonitzer's interview recordings and in our interview of him. "
"A former executive assistant to Mr. Biden confirmed that at times Mr. Biden
committed talking points to memory by writing them down, sometimes multiple
times."
This is over the top.
There is no crime unless the DoJ could prove beyond a reasonable doubt that Biden knowingly took these documents.