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President Joe Biden jumped into what one news outlet called a “last-minute press conference” Thursday evening after the release of a special counsel’s report that described him as a “well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory.”
At the event went on, Biden, 81, apparently selected reporters from whom to take questions, instead of following a list of reporters provided to him by staff members, which, according to Fox News, is his usual process.
Some of the exchanges between the president and the journalists present became “combative,” especially when Biden called on CNN’s MJ Lee.
“Mr. President, for months when you were asked about your age, you would respond with the words, ‘Watch me,’” Lee said. “Many American people have been watching, and they have expressed concern about your age.”
A visibly annoyed Biden cut her off at that point, speaking over Lee as she attempted to finish her question.
“That is your judgment,” he said to the journalist. “That is your judgment. That is not the judgment of the press.”
“They express concerns about your mental acuity,” Lee continued, undeterred. “They say that you are too old. Mr. President, in December, you told me that you believed there are many other Democrats who could defeat [former President] Donald Trump.
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