A Special Counsel who oversaw a damning report that claimed Joe Biden’s mental faculties were failing is set to testify before Congress in March.
Robert Hur, who was tasked with probing the US President’s handling of classified documents, will testify before the Republican-led House Judiciary Committee on March 12.
Following a year-long investigation, Mr Hur released a report last week which concluded that Mr Biden “wilfully” retained classified material after he left office as vice president in 2017.
But a jury would have had reasonable doubt his motives as he is a “sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory”, it said.
The report also said Mr Biden could not remember the dates he was vice president or the year his son Beau died, which was 2015.
House Republicans plan to question Mr Hur regarding his remarks about the president's memory.
They have also requested that he provide recordings and transcripts of his interviews with Mr Biden, conducted over the course of his year-long investigation.
Mr Biden hit back at the report’s findings during a press conference at the White House.
He said: “I've seen the headlines since the report was released about my wilful retention of documents. These assertions are not only misleading, they're just plain wrong. In addition, I know there's some attention paid to the language in the report about my recollection of events.
“There's even some reference that I don't remember when my son died.
“How the hell dare he raise that? Frankly, when I was asked the question, I thought to myself it wasn't any of their damned business,” he said.
Fox News journalist Peter Doocy, who has repeatedly clashed with the Biden White House, asked: “How bad is your memory and can you continue as president?”
Mr Biden shot back: “My memory is so bad I let you speak.”
Asked by another journalist if his memory had worsened, Mr Biden said: “I know what the hell I'm doing. My memory has not gotten worse. My memory is fine. Take a look at what I have done since becoming president.”
Sensitive documents related to Afghanistan were previously found in a garage at Mr Biden's Delaware home.
Mr Hur's report said the way the classified material was stored randomly supported the idea that Mr Biden's actions were not deliberate.
The material was found in a “badly damaged box in the garage, near a collapsed dog crate, a dog bed, a Zappos [shoe retailer] box, an empty bucket, a broken lamp wrapped with duct tape, potting soil and synthetic firewood”, the report said.
The president sought to set himself apart from Mr Trump, 77, who faces 40 criminal charges which carry up to 450 years in prison, for resisting handing over documents after he left the White House in 2021.
Mr Biden said: “It was in my house. It wasn't out like in Mar-a-Lago in a public place, and none of it was high classified.”
Mr Hur determined that 12 documents contained top-secret information, in addition to 10 handwritten notebooks and two notecards kept by Mr Biden.
He blamed his aide, saying the documents were “not moved by me - by my staff”.
He added: “I wish I had paid more attention to how the documents were being moved.”
During the conference, Mr Biden confused president Abdel Fattah El-Sisi of Egypt with the president of Mexico when talking about the war in Gaza - the latest in a series of similar gaffes.
