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The president's mental recall is mentioned repeatedly in a new report.

The account of President Joe Biden's memory is a striking and disputed
part of a 345-page report issued Thursday by the federal prosecutor who
spent a year investigating his handling of classified information while
out of office.

But special counsel Robert Hur's assessment of Biden's mental acuity and
power of recall -- described as sparse, apparently "hazy" and, in one interaction, so bad that the president could not recall "even within
several years" when his oldest son had died -- informed the decision not
to recommend charges.

Hur's language also drew a fierce rebuke from Biden's attorneys, who
called it wrong and "inflammatory."

At an event on Thursday night, Biden brought up being asked by the special counsel about his son's death, saying he questioned how it was any of
their business.

Within hours of Hur's report being made public, Biden's reported memory problems were also attracting notice in the political arena and the media
-- including from Biden's critics.

What the report says about Biden's memory
Broadly speaking, Hur concluded that "no criminal charges are warranted"
after his investigation, which nonetheless "uncovered evidence that
President Biden willfully retained and disclosed classified information
after his vice presidency when he was a private citizen."

That's because, Hur wrote, the "evidence does not establish Mr. Biden's
guilt beyond a reasonable doubt."

The White House had emphasized from the beginning that it would cooperate
with investigators. Biden himself repeatedly denied any personal
wrongdoing and said he was "surprised" to learn of the existence of the documents, which Biden returned after they were found.

In his report, Hur wrote that he had considered the perception problem a prosecution might face with jurors -- because of what Hur called Biden's
memory issues.

"At trial, Mr. Biden would likely present himself to a jury, as he did
during our interview of him, as a sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man
with a poor memory," Hur wrote.

"Based on our direct interactions with and observations of him, he is
someone for whom many jurors will want to identify reasonable doubt. It
would be difficult to convince a jury that they should convict him-by then
a former president well into his eighties-of a serious felony that
requires a mental state of willfulness," Hur continued.

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/special-counsel-calls-bidens-age-memory- attorneys-slam/story?id=107075494

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