Senator Chris Coons defends Biden against the ‘offensive and abhorrent’ DOJ report – and the president’s campaign insists: ‘He’s smart. He’s busy with his game

President Joe Biden’s “little blunders” are irrelevant to his re-election campaign, ally Sen. Chris Coons has insisted, amid mounting concerns about his fitness for office following a bombshell report that questioned his memory and mental acuity.

Mitch Landrieu, co-chair of the president’s campaign, also defended Biden against the damning Justice Department report, calling it “BS.”

“I’ve been traveling with him all over the country,” Landrieu told NBC’s Meet the Press host Kristen Welker on Sunday morning. “And I’m telling you, this guy is tough. He is smart. He is busy.’

“When you brief the president, you’ve got to – you better keep your big boy pants on. And this kind of feeling that he’s not ready for this job is just a bucket of BS so deep it’ll get your boots stuck in it,” he said in response to the special counsel’s description of Biden in his report released Thursday.

Biden fumed over special counsel Robert Hur’s accusation in his report that he did not know the year his son Beau died

DOJ Special Counsel Robert Hur released his report Thursday after a year-long investigation into Biden’s mishandling of classified documents. He recommended no charges against the president, noting Biden’s “diminished faculties” and poor memory.

In interviews with researchers, Biden forgot the years he was vice president and could not remember the year his son Beau died. Although Hur did not recommend charges, the report alleged that Bidne’s lax attitude toward classified documents posed a significant national security risk.

One reason investigators decided not to file charges was because “Mr. Biden would likely present himself to a jury at trial, as he did during our interview with him, as a likable, well-meaning, older man with a poor memory.” ‘

Meanwhile, Sen. Coons (D-Del.) also defended Biden against criticism that Biden was forgetting important details of his life.

“We are fighting for the soul of our nation,” Coons told the ABC News program This Week, repeating the Biden-Harris campaign slogan. “And the idea that Joe Biden somehow forgot the date of his son’s death is insulting and disgusting.”

He noted that Biden and Trump — and “most elected officials” — regularly make “little blunders.” “That’s not the point,” he insisted.

Meanwhile, a new ABC News/Ipsos poll released Sunday shows that as many as 86 percent of American voters think Biden, 81, is too old for another term.

Asked about Democrats wanting to see someone else at the top of the party’s 2024 ticket, Landrieu said, “The one thing Joe Biden is never going to do is — count on this: he will never, ever stop.”

“Because that’s not what he’s done his whole life,” he added.

Mitch Landrieu, co-chair of the Biden campaign, said on Sunday morning: ‘This kind of feeling that he’s not ready for this job is just a bucket of BS so deep it’ll get your boots stuck in it’

He said the campaign considers the 15-month investigation and progress report “legitimate,” even though the president and his allies have discredited much of what has been written about him and his memory.

“The conclusion was that the president was not guilty of misconduct, period, end of story,” Landrieu said in his NBC interview. “But unfortunately that’s not where the special counsel left it.”

“He decided to add ad-hominem gratuitous attacks about the president, the death of the president’s son — which everyone knows is incredibly personal for him, as it is for any parent who has lost someone — and then additional to attack. that was just ridiculous,” he complained.