White House slams Hur report: 'Gratuitous and inappropriate criticisms of the president'

The White House on Friday attempted to discredit observations by special counsel Robert Hur that have renewed questions about President Biden's mental acuity.

Spokesman for Oversight and Investigations Ian Sams said the report cleared Biden of any wrongdoing related to his handling of classified documents, but offered sharp criticism of Hur's description of the president as a "sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory."

"Unfortunately, the gratuitous remarks that the former attorney general talked about have naturally caught headlines in all of your attention," Sams told reporters at the daily White House press briefing. "They're wrong and they're inaccurate."

Hur had investigated Biden's improper retention of classified records since last year and released a report detailing his findings on Thursday. Those records included classified documents about military and foreign policy in Afghanistan, among other records related to national security and foreign policy which Hur said implicated "sensitive intelligence sources and methods."

SPECIAL COUNSEL CALLS BIDEN ‘SYMPATHETIC, WELL-MEANING, ELDERLY MAN WITH A POOR MEMORY,’ BRINGS NO CHARGES

However, the special counsel declined to bring charges against Biden. Hur, throughout the more than 300-page report, said "it would be difficult to convince a jury that they should convict him" of a serious felony "that requires a mental state of willfulness," and said he would be "well into his eighties."

Sams called the findings of no criminal wrongdoing by Biden accurate while hitting Hur's observations of Biden's mental state as "gratuitous and inappropriate." He pointed to statements by former Attorney General Eric Holder and other ex-DOJ officials who have criticized