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Special counsel Robert Hur admitted Tuesday that his investigation found evidence that Joe Biden retained classified materials to enrich himself.
During a House Judiciary Committee hearing, Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) asked Hur to speculate about Biden's motive for retaining classified information. At first, Hur declined to comment on Biden's possible motive, which prompted Jordan to cite Hur's own words.
In his report, Hur said Biden had "strong motivations" for ignoring regulations safeguarding classified information because he wanted to write a book. Hur wrote:
Mr. Biden had strong motivations to ignore the proper procedures for safeguarding the classified information in his notebooks. He decided months before leaving office to write a book and began meeting with his ghostwriter while still vice president. After his vice presidency, the notebooks continued to be an invaluable resource that he consulted liberally. During hours of recorded interviews in which he read aloud from his notebooks in his private home, Mr. Biden provided raw material to his ghostwriter detailing meetings and events that would be of interest to prospective readers and buyers of his book.
Next, Jordan asked Hur about the advance Biden received for that book, "Promise Me, Dad." According to Hur's report, Biden received $8 million — a highly lucrative deal.
"Joe Biden had 8 million reasons to break the rules. He took classified information and shared it with the guy who was writing the book," Jordan said. "He knew the rules, but he broke them for $8 million in a book advance."
Next, Jordan highlighted Hur's assessment that Biden retained classified documents to "buttress" his view that he played an important role in history.
Hur wrote in the report:
[Biden] also likely viewed the notebooks,like the marked classified documents related to Afghanistan recovered from hisgarage, as an irreplaceable contemporaneous record of some of the most important moments of his vice presidency. This record was valuable to him for many reasons,including to help defend his record and buttress his legacy as a world leader.
"It wasn't just the money, it wasn't just $8 million, it was his ego!" Jordan summarized. "Pride and money is why he knowingly violated the rules. The oldest motive in the book: pride and money."
In a follow-up question, Jordan asked Hur if he agreed with that assessment — and he did.
"That language does appear in the report and we did identify evidence supporting those assessments," Hur explained.
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Hur testified about his investigation and report for more than four hours on Tuesday. Unfortunately, Democrats used the hearing to attack Donald Trump repeatedly and to make false claims about Hur's report.
Specifically, Democrats claimed that Hur "exonerated" Biden or found that he was "outright innocent."
But on multiple occasions, Hur clarified those are not the conclusions he reached. In fact, Hur told Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.) that his investigation did not exonerate Biden.
On the contrary, Hur explained in his opening statement that his investigation "identified evidence that the president willfully retained classified materials after the end of his vice presidency, when he was a private citizen."
Despite this evidence, Hur said he did not recommend criminal charges against Biden because he found it unlikely that prosecutors could prove the case beyond a reasonable doubt, particularly because of Biden's faulty memory.
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Hur transcripts raise new questions, confirm Biden lied to the American people when he attacked special counsel in speech
Transcripts of special counsel Robert Hur's interview with President Joe Biden confirm that Biden maligned Hur after the report was released.
Hours after the report was released on February 8, Biden attacked Hur for including details about his memory in the report. Specifically, Hur described Biden as a "well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory" and cited Biden's inability to remember, among other important details, "when he was vice president" and "even within several years, when his son Beau died."
Speaking to the American people, Biden claimed Hur brought up Beau's death. He said:
I know there’s some attention paid to some language in the report about my recollection of events. There’s even a reference that I don’t remember when my son died. How in the hell dare he raise that. Frankly, when I was asked the question, I thought to myself it wasn’t any of their damn business.
But transcripts of the interview, which were leaked to the legacy media ahead of Hur's congressional testimony on Tuesday, confirm that Hur did not first mention Beau.
On the contrary, Biden brought up his son's death.
The transcript shows that Hur was asking Biden where he kept records pertaining to his work projects after leaving the vice presidency in January 2017.
In response, Biden claimed that "in this timeframe," referring to his post-vice presidential days, Beau was either "deployed or is dying." He then asked, "What month did Beau die?" before answering his own question, "May 30."
At that point, a White House lawyer told Biden that his son died in 2015, not in the timeframe Biden first identified.
"Was it 2015 he had died?" Biden followed up.
Another person in the room confirmed that Beau died in May 2015.
A few seconds later, Biden incorrectly stated that Donald Trump was elected president in "November of 2017." After two people in the room corrected him — that, in fact, Trump won election in November 2016 — Biden questioned why his notes said "2017."
"That's when you left office, January of 2017," responded White House counsel Ed Siskel.
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The transcript confirmation raises important questions: Why did Biden publicly attack Hur and accuse him of asking about Beau's death when Biden already knew that Hur, in fact, didn't raise the topic?
Did Biden not remember that he was the one who first mentioned Beau's death? Or was his political attack an attempt to discredit Hur and paint himself as the victim of a partisan investigation?
Whatever the case, the transcripts prove that Hur accurately recounted Biden's memory problems in his report.
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After explosive Hur report, is mainstream media turning its back on Biden?
In a shocking twist, the mainstream media seems to be turning on Joe Biden following Robert Hur’s bombshell report on Biden’s handling of confidential documents.
While Vice President Harris and Biden’s allies have been in full damage control, the report described Biden as a “sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory” who was not fit to stand trial — and it’s almost impossible to spin.
“This president has been deemed unfit to stand trial, but he’s fine as president,” Keith Malinak comments, disturbed.
“Serving as president, that’s not as important as standing trial,” Pat Gray jokes.
Even media personnel at ABC are having a hard time ignoring the report and the president’s reaction, saying he was “seething” and his “anger was palpable.”
But they weren’t the only ones.
CNN, NBC, and CBS all were shocked at Biden’s angry reaction toward reporters during the press conference that followed the release of Robert Hur’s report.
“This is not a new problem for the White House and for the Biden campaign. There have been long-standing, mounting questions about his age and mental sharpness, and so this only adds to those concerns, and that is why you are seeing so much damage control,” Weijia Jiang reported on CBS.
“This could do real political damage,” she added.
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