 Don't call Biden elderly man with poor memory. White House The White House has condemned a report compiled by U.S. Special Counsel Robert Hur, who investigated allegations that President Joe Biden mishandled classified documents. A top legal staffer said the prosecutor went beyond his mandate in describing Biden as having diminished faculties in advancing age. The spokesman for the White House's Office of the General Counsel, Ian Sams, went on the offensive against Hur's report during a rare press briefing. Though the report ultimately recommended no charges for Biden, Sams questioned why Hur discussed the President's age at all. When the inevitable conclusion is that the facts and the evidence don't support any charges, you're left to wonder why this report spends time making gratuitous and inappropriate criticisms of the President, he added. Though Sams did not dispute Hur's intentions, Vice President Kamala Harris suggested the special counsel was politically motivated, saying his description of Biden could not be more wrong on the facts. And so I will say, when it comes to the role and responsibility of a prosecutor in a situation like that, we should expect that there would be a higher level of integrity than what we saw, Harris said. Hur was initially appointed U.S. Attorney for the District of Maryland in 2018 by then President Donald Trump, but resigned just three years later. He returned to government in early 2023 when Attorney General Merrick Garland made him special counsel on the classified documents investigation.