Ex-prosecutor explains which part of Biden docs report was 'really hard to stomach'

The special prosecutor who spared Biden from a criminal case instead took aim at his age, mental fitness and fuzzy memory.

That went too far, according to former special counsel prosecutor Andrew Weissmann.

"There is a part of this report that is really hard to stomach," Weissmann told Lawrence O'Donnell during an appearance on MSNBC's "The Last Word". "A job of the prosecutor and whether you are a special counsel or not, is to decide whether there is sufficient proof to prosecute. That's it. And if there is, you can say that. If there isn't, then you say that.

"What I've been saying is adjectives and adverbs in your personal views of the people and what you think of them is irrelevant and it has no place in a report."

Special Counsel Robert Hur, who had been probing the president for 15 months, decided to hold off on bringing criminal action against Biden, 81, claiming it would be a tough case to win at trial because he would come off as a "well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory."

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Further, Hur described Biden's memory as being "severely limited" during an interview with Hur that spanned two days.

Hur reported that Biden couldn't recall the year he served under President Barack Obama.

Biden took issue with that during a press conference.

"How in the hell dare he raise that," he asked, adding that it "wasn't any of their damn business."

Weissmann took note that Attorney General Merrick Garland didn't vindicate the president and that stood in contrast when former Attorney General William Barr cleared Trump in the Mueller investigation.

"A mistake is not a crime," he said. "And this says that there isn't sufficient evidence to charge that crime. There is no evidence to support proof beyond a reasonable doubt of knowledge or of intent. There was full cooperation and there was no obstruction."

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