Dean Phillips weighs in on Biden classified documents report

Longshot Democratic primary challenger Rep. Dean Phillips said that special counsel Robert Hur’s scathing report on President Biden’s mishandling of classified documents “all but handed the 2024 election to Donald Trump.”

Phillips, 55, a Democrat from Minnesota running to unseat Biden, said that the 388-page report, which described the president as an “elderly man” with “diminished faculties,” affirmed that he is unfit for a second term.

“The Report simply affirms what most Americans already know, that the President cannot continue to serve as our Commander-in-Chief beyond his term ending January 20, 2025,” Phillips said in a statement to Fox News Digital Thursday.

“Already facing the lowest approval numbers in modern history and losing in each of the key battleground states, this Report has all but handed the 2024 election to Donald Trump if Joe Biden is the Democratic nominee — and I invite fellow Democrats to face the truth,” he continued.

Phillips added that it was a “sad day” for America, as well as for Biden and his family.

In his scathing report, Hur concluded that Biden “willfully retained and disclosed classified materials” after leaving the vice presidency — but he did not recommend criminal charges.

Hur wrote that the 81-year-old president displayed “significant limitations in memory” during his interviews with investigators in October, forgetting key events in his life.

But if brought to trial, the special counsel argued that the commander-on-chief would present himself “as a sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory.”

On Thursday night, an infuriated Biden lashed out at the contents of the Hur report, which he dismissed as “just plain wrong.”

“I am well-meaning, and I’m an elderly man and I know what the hell I’m doing,” Biden seethed in his address from the White House.

Moments later, he mistakenly referred to Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi as the “president of Mexico.”