Turns Out Biden Lied About Hur, Beau, And Why He Pilfered Classified Documents
By: David Harsanyi
S E E D E D C O N T E N T
One of the big takeaways from the newly-released transcript of Joe Biden's two-day interview with Robert Hur is that the special counsel was being exceedingly generous when describing the president as a "sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory."
Much of the conversation with Hur is littered with barely incoherent answers and spiraling word salads. Though, the reader is occasionally entertained by Biden's blowhard-y non-sequiturs. We learn about Biden's Corvette — twice. We learn that the president is a frustrated architect but an excellent archer. Biden jokes that there might be risqué pictures of Dr. First Lady Jill Biden.
Then again, the fact that the entire two-day interview isn't a giant nonsensical rant is not as impressive as his defenders might believe. The president is, indeed, completely coherent at times. And those are the times he's probably lying.
When Hur released his report last month, for example, it noted that Biden couldn't recall the year his son died. This is not the kind of event that typically slips a healthy person's mind — not even one who is constantly trying to emotionally manipulate the public with misleading claims about the cause of his son's death.
Recall that Biden feigned great anger about this interaction. "There's even a reference that I don't remember when my son died," he barked at reporters when the report was released. "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."
The transcript shows that it was Biden who brought up his late son Beau, not Hur. The president claimed he believed Beau had died in 2017 or 2018 when he had tragically died of brain cancer in 2015.
Who knows? Maybe Biden forgot what he said? Reading the full context of his answer, and considering the president's lifelong fabulism, it is not entirely out of the question that the president purposely floated the wrong date to try and justify his pilfering of classified documents. Either way, it's bad.
Here is the key interaction:
MR. HUR: So during this time when you were living at Chain Bridge Road and there were documents relating to the Penn Biden Center, or the Biden Institute, or the Cancer Moonshot, or your book, where did you keep papers that related to those things that you were actively working on?
PRESIDENT BIDEN: Well, um .. . I , I, I, I, I don' t know. This is, what, 2017, 2018, that area?
MR. HUR: Yes, sir.
PRESIDENT BIDEN: Remember, in this timeframe, my son is either been deployed or is dying, and, and so it was and by the way, there were still a lot of people at the time when I got out of the Senate that were encouraging me to run in this period, except the President. I'm not — and not a mean thing to say. He just thought that she had a better shot of winning the presidency than I did. And so I hadn't, I hadn't, at this point — even though I'm at Penn, I hadn't walked away from the idea that I may run for office again. But if I ran again, I'd be running for President. And, and so what was happening, though - what month did Beau die? Oh, God, May 30th -
MS. COTTON: 2015.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE SPEAKER: 2015.
PRESIDENT BIDEN: Was it 2015 he had died?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE SPEAKER: It was May of 2015.
PRESIDENT BIDEN: It was 2015.
By the way, just as Beau did not die in Iraq, Joe was never "at Penn," not in any real way. The outgoing vice president was bequeathed an honorary professor position at the school, which the Philadelphia Inquirer noted in 2019 was "a vaguely defined role that involved no regular classes and around a dozen public appearances on campus, mostly in big, ticketed events."
More importantly, Biden also contradicted himself when speaking about the documents themselves.
When Hur asked the president about the classified papers in his possession, the president contended that he "had no purpose for them, and I think it would be inappropriate for me to keep clearly classified documents." But Hur, in his prepared testimony for Congress, says: "We also identified other recorded conversations during which Mr. Biden read classified information aloud to his ghostwriter."
So, the documents did have a very specific purpose. Those files were used, according to Amtrak Joe, to help earn $8 million writing a book after leaving the Obama administration.
Yet, when the Hur report was released, the left wing did what they always do when confronted with bad news: they feigned a meltdown. They smeared the messenger. They concoct conspiracy theories. They denied reality. They're doing the same right now.
The media continues to frame Hur's findings as an exoneration of Biden to head off the (correct) perception that there is a stark, selective prosecution when it comes to the hoarding of classified documents. Donald Trump, yes. Biden and Hillary Clinton, no.
In The New York Times, Charlie Savage begins the paper's story on the leaked transcripts by misleading readers with the contention that Hur had found "insufficient evidence to charge Mr. Biden." This is not true. Hur's report concluded that Biden came off as too feeble-minded to be convicted by a jury for his decades-long mishandling of classified information. According to the special counsel, the president had "willfully retained classified information." And he had done it for years before winning the presidency.
During today's hearing Democrats falsely used the word "exoneration" a number of times. Hur noted that the word "does not appear anywhere in my report, and that is not my conclusion."
So, the fact remains that there are two ways to look at the Hur report. Either the president lacks the mental acuity to be charged for breaking the law, or he should be charged for breaking the law. Pick one.
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Even more reason for cognitive tests be done. These are something Biden has avoided for years.
He did lie, but the lefties won't admit it.
And they will keep making pathetic excuses.
Biden lied
And Obama knew
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When it was revealed that Cassidy Hutchinson lied under oath about a preposterous story that President Trump was so eager to join supporters at the Capitol he tried to grab the wheel of his car, a member here said "what's the difference?"
You better not be referring to me because if so, you just penned a lie! You claimed that Cheney did not reveal testimony from someone who merely claimed that Trump did not try to commandeer the limo.
First of all, Cassidy was recalling what she was told. She and the Jan 6 committee made it quite clear that she was not stating what she witnessed, only what she was told. So this does not mean she lied as you alleged.
Second, my "so what" was with respect to the allegation of Trump reaching to grab the steering wheel. My point was (and remains) that if Trump did try to grab the steering wheel, that is irrelevant. I noted that what is relevant are his actions prior to and during the insurrection. Trying to grab the steering wheel grab is not wrongdoing, it is not a violation of the CotUS, it is not inciting an insurrection, it is (at best) a tidbit that gives insight into Trump's demeanor and character ... as if we need any more insight.
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NOBODY mentioned or referred to you.
No such claim was made.
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He can’t be charged because of his lack of mental acuity but evidently is fully capable of successfully discharging his duties as POTUS.
If the dichotomy of that wasn’t so obvious, it would be hilarious.
That's why the cognitive tests are crucial to determining if he's prosecuted or not.
The left's hypocrisy on this is glaring. On one hand they claim he's fit for office, on the other hand, when it comes to prosecution they say he's mentally diminished.
In reality Hur knew that a DC jury would never convict Biden.
Agreed which doesn’t change the facts of this case and opens a potentially horrible Pandora’s box.
Next time I get caught speeding I’m gonna tell the cop I forgot what the speed limit was due to old age.
Think I’ll get off without a coupon?
Basically, Biden took classified documents because he was going to write a book.
Next time I get caught speeding I’m gonna tell the cop I forgot what the speed limit was due to old age.
I think I'll just tell them that "I'm a democrat."
Think his Ghost writer had a security clearance? Not that that means much anymore if he did.
And got paid some $8 mil for it. Safe to say he sold the documents.
It would be so easy for him to put and end to the claim that he is not fit. Depending on how the tests came out of course.
So Biden flat out lied about a special counsel to undermine his credibility and the left is fine with it… seem to remember a time not so long ago when criticizing a special counsel was an attack on democracy.
It's all in WHO is lying. If they have that magic "D" after their name, then they are all good with it. Anybody else they turn into shrieking harpies. Hypocrisy at it's best.
It was funny watching some dems try to sneak in the word exonerated at the hearing and Hur keep shooting them down.
Hur appears to be a very principled guy. Unlike most of the dipshits questioning him.
Yep, which probably had alot to do with him saying "take this govt job and shove it".