First Lady Jill Biden slams special counsel for saying Biden couldn’t remember year of son Beau’s death and implies he was ‘point-scoring’… even though Biden has gotten the details wrong in public

Jill Biden has come out fighting after the special counsel’s damning report on her husband’s memory, which claimed Joe forgot their son Beau’s death was intended “to score political points.”

“Believe me, like anyone who has lost a child, Beau and his death never leave him,” the First Lady said in a statement shared by a campaign.

The statement came in response to special counsel Robert K. Hur’s conclusion that Biden should not be charged with mishandling classified documents, but only because a jury would not convict him because he would come across as “a likable, well-meaning, elderly man with a bad memory.’

But the argument that President Biden could not forget his son’s tragic death defies the public blunders he has made on the subject in the past.

This included a June 2023 meeting, when Biden claimed he and Jill had “lost our son in Iraq” — despite Beau dying of brain cancer in Maryland in 2015.

Beau served in Iraq and may have contracted the disease through exposure to “burn pits” where toxic military equipment is burned.

But critics of the Bidens are likely to accuse Jill of hypocrisy for choosing to go into details when her husband has previously paid lip service to them himself.

In her statement shared Saturday evening, the First Lady began: “Friends, I have heard from so many of you asking about the Special Counsel’s report this week. Thank you for your love and support.”

She said viewers “probably know the basics of the case,” that the president “cooperated fully with a special counsel’s investigation and they found he did nothing wrong.”

“No criminal charges were warranted,” she said, referring to one op-ed by historian Heather Cox Richardson who claimed the prosecutor’s report “amounted to a partisan assassination.”

But Jill said the conclusion was not what she released the statement about — what she called “inaccurate and personal political attacks about Joe.”

“Rather than saying the case was closed, as they have done with others, the special counsel claimed that Joe ‘couldn’t remember the year his son died.’

“Believe me, like anyone who has lost a child, Beau and his death never leave him.

“I hope you can imagine what it felt like to read that attack – not only as Joe’s wife, but also as Beau’s mother.”

She continued, “I don’t know what this special prosecutor was trying to accomplish. We must extend grace to everyone, and I can’t imagine anyone would try to use our son’s death to score political points.

“When you’ve experienced a loss like that, you know you don’t measure it in years, you measure it in grief.

‘May 30 is a day that is forever etched in our hearts. It destroyed me, it destroyed our family.”

The statement refuting the prosecutor’s damning report comes less than a year after Biden publicly faulted the manner in which Beau died.

At a rally in Rocky Mountain, North Carolina in June 2023, Biden falsely claimed that he had run for president while serving as Barack Obama’s vice president, before claiming that Beau died while serving in Iraq.

Speaking about reports that he had no intention of running for president again, Biden told the crowd, “You know, the bottom line is, I ran for president – I ran for president to fundamental reason.

“I was already a candidate when I was vice president, and then Barack and I spent eight years together, and then the new administration came along and in the meantime things changed in our lives and our family.

“I lost my son – we lost our son in Iraq. Anyway – I wasn’t planning on running.”

Biden had previously made similar claims that his son died while serving in Iraq.

It is true that Beau served in Iraq, deployed from 2008 to 2009 and rose to the rank of major in the Delaware Army National Guard.

He returned before launching his own political career, serving as attorney general of Delaware and planning a run for governor of Delaware before dying of brain cancer in 2015.

President Biden has insisted there is a good chance Beau’s brain cancer was caused by exposure to burns during his time in Iraq.

Jill Biden concluded her statement by saying that she and President Biden only got through the difficult time of their son’s death by finding purpose.

“So many of you know that feeling after losing a loved one, where you feel like you can’t get off the floor.

“What helped me, and what helped Joe, was finding purpose. That’s what keeps Joe going and serving you and the country we love.”

She then focused on his age, countering that experience should be seen as one of President Biden’s strongest assets.

“Joe is 81, that’s true, but he’s 81 and he does more in an hour than most people do in a day. Joe has wisdom, empathy and vision.

‘He has fulfilled so many of his promises as president, precisely because he has learned a lot in those 81 years.

“His age, with his experience and expertise, is an incredible asset and he proves that every day.”

The First Lady rattled off a number of these accomplishments, including “bringing our country back from COVID,” “creating 14 million jobs” and passing bipartisan legislation “even amid this hyper-partisan environment.”

“The media may not give him credit, but I’m grateful that you realize what he did for this country.

“Joe is the most resilient person I have ever known. When he gets knocked down, he gets back up and goes back to work. That’s what he does.’

After thanking Democratic supporters for their support, she concluded, “At some point in our lives, we will all experience grief and loss. We will experience challenging moments and twists.

“But we find joy together, we persevere together, and in the end, we will overcome together.”

Beau’s biological mother was Neilia Hunter, who died in a car accident in December 1972 with her one-year-old daughter Naomi.

Beau and his younger brother Hunter – both toddlers at the time – were also in the car when it was hit by a semi and were also injured.

Joe met Jill on a blind date in 1975 and the couple married two years later.

The couple welcomed a daughter, Ashley Biden, in 1981.