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HARRISBURG, Pa. — Guy Reschenthaler, a Republican Pennsylvania congressman and Navy veteran, is calling on President Biden to step down “immediately” following Special Counsel Robert Hur’s months-long report on the handling of classified documents that characterized Biden as an “elderly man with a poor memory.”
“Biden should step down immediately. The fact that you have a special counsel report that came out that said that he’s not mentally fit to handle classified documents. This is the guy that has the nuclear codes,” Reschenthaler told Fox News Digital last week in an interview in Harrisburg.
Reschenthaler spoke to Fox Digital while attending the NRA’s Great American Outdoor Show on Friday evening, when former President Trump delivered the keynote speech for the event’s Presidential Forum and gave the Republican congressman a shout-out for doing a “fantastic job” in the Keystone State.
Reschenthaler came out swinging on Thursday after the release of the Hur report, demanding that Biden step down while pointing to portions of the report that described Biden as not being aware of when he was vice president or when his son, Beau Biden, died.
“President Biden’s experience, character, and drive have made him the most successful president in modern history, getting the country back on its feet after inheriting a nation in crisis and going on to achieve goals that eluded his predecessors for decades,” the memo reads.
The New York Times editorial board said Biden’s press conference in response to Special Counsel Robert Hur’s report made voters’ trust in the president’s mental strength worse. (Reuters/Getty)
Allies of the president joined Sunday morning news shows this past weekend to defend the president, including Biden campaign co-chair Mitch Landrieu calling Hur’s characterizations of the president as a “bucket of BS.”
“He’s smart. He’s on his game,” Landrieu told NBC’s “Meet the Press” on Sunday. “And as Secretary Mayorkas said a minute ago, when you go in to brief the president, you better have your big-boy pants on. And this kind of sense that he’s not ready for this job, it’s just a bucket of BS that’s so deep your boots will get stuck.”
This image from Special Council Robert Hur’s investigation released by the Department of Justice on Feb. 8, 2024, shows the storage closet inside the Penn Biden Center in March 2021. (U.S. Department of Justice)
Robert Bauer, Biden’s personal attorney, appeared on CBS’s “Face the Nation” and described Hur’s report as “shoddy” and riddled with “factual misstatements.”
“The investigation could have been concluded in two or three months. It went on for over 15 months. And so, along with the legal conclusion comes this flood of characterizations, factual misstatements, pejorative comments about the president that are inconsistent with DOJ policy and norms. And that, as you see over the last 48 hours, have been widely criticized by legal experts. This is not what prosecutors do. It is shoddy work product,” Bauer said Sunday.
