Former Attorney General Eric Holder blasted special counsel Robert Hur for a "gratuitous" observation about President Joe Biden's memory in Hur's massive report on classified documents at the president's home.
The snipe was uncalled for, Holder said in an early Friday post on X, formerly known as Twitter.
"Special Counsel Hur report on Biden classified documents issues contains way too many gratuitous remarks and is flatly inconsistent with long standing DOJ traditions," Holder wrote. "Had this report been subject to a normal DOJ review these remarks would undoubtedly have been excised."
Holder led the Justice Department for six years during the Obama administration, and has since been an adviser to the Democratic Party, Politico noted.
In the report released Thursday, Hur stated Biden couldn't recall when his son Beau died and said a jury would be sympathetic to Biden, who was described as a "well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory."
Biden angrily defended his mental capacity Thursday night, insisting his memory is "fine."
"I'm well-meaning, and I'm an elderly man, and I know what the hell I'm doing. I've been president and I put this country back on its feet," he said during a press conference.
Holder was one of several former Obama administration officials blasting the comments on Biden's "poor" memory contained in the report, Politico reported.
Tommy Vietor, a former Obama White House aide who now co-hosts "Pod Save America," charged the report was filled with "ad hominem attacks" and was "just a right-wing hit job from within Biden's own DOJ."
"Hur, a lifelong Republican and creature of D.C., didn't have a case against Biden, but he knew exactly how his swipes could hurt Biden politically," fumed Jim Messina, Barack Obama's 2012 campaign manager.
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