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Chris Stein and Alice Herman in Washington DC

‘Gratuitous, inaccurate’: White House disputes special counsel report on Biden

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Joe Biden speaks at the White House on 8 February. Photograph: Nathan Howard/Getty Images

Democrats and the White House on Friday launched an aggressive push back against a special counsel report that pushed Joe Biden’s age and memory to the front and center of the presidential election campaign and spurred a series of Republican attacks on the US president.

The special counsel Robert Hur’s report on Biden’s handling of confidential documents on Thursday said the US president would not face criminal charges in the case but in a series of remarks characterized Biden as elderly and with a failing memory – triggering a political bombshell on an issue seen as a core weakness of Biden’s re-election campaign.

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