Biden Accused of Lying About Hur Mentioning His Late Son Beau

Biden’s last-week press conference was filled with dramatic moments. The president was angry when Robert Hur’s report about Biden’s handling classified documents claimed that Biden couldn’t remember “even several years after his son Beau’s death.”

Biden said to reporters at an impromptu White House Press Conference: “How the hell can he even raise that?” “Frankly when I was asked that question, I thought it wasn’t any of their damn business.”

Biden, however, was never asked about the death date of his son. Biden raised the question first.

NBC News:

Sources said Biden brought up his son’s passing when asked about his work at a Virginia rental house from 2016 to 2018. A ghostwriter was working with him to write a memoir after losing Beau to cancer of the brain in 2015. The report states that investigators had a recording from 2017 that showed Biden telling the ghostwriter that he found “classified material” in the home.

Biden then began to try and recall this period, by talking about other things in his life. It was at this point in the interview, that he seemed confused as to when Beau died. Biden was correct about the date, May 30, but not the year.

Biden’s surrogates viciously attacked Hur for something he did not do.

Eric Holder, former attorney general of the United States, said on MSNBC Monday: “Why are you asking this question? He said that Hur had been “a rube” who “shaded,” what he wrote in the report. What does this have to do with the retention of classified information?”

Holder should thank Hur for including the memory problems in the report. Biden could be walking into D.C. prison in handcuffs if he didn’t add the memory issues to the report. Hur referred to Biden’s description as “forgetful,” and as a “nice old man,” as the reason why a jury would not convict Biden.

NBC News reports that Hur’s memory lapses are “one of the reasons he (Hur) concluded it would be hard to convince a juror to convict Biden for intentionally mishandling classified data.” Hur stated that Biden’s memory would make him appear as “a sympathetic, well-meaning elderly man” to a jury. This is why Hur recommended that the president not be prosecuted, even though it was proven that he took classified documents without permission and did not return them.

NBC News reported that First Lady Jill Biden questioned, in a letter to raise money, whether Hur used “our son’s passing to score a political point” (NBC News). It’s worse to use her own stepson’s death as a fundraiser than anything Hur did.

Two people who are familiar with Hur said that Hur had set out to create a narrative that was balanced and comprehensive, explaining why he concluded, even though there were significant facts, that Biden would not be charged criminally. According to the report, Hur’s investigation team spoke with 147 people and examined 7,000,000 documents over one year.

Hur’s associates say Biden’s claim, that the special prosecutor quizzed President Obama, unprompted, regarding his son’s cancer death, is an attempt to divert attention from the special prosecutor’s findings about how Biden handled classified papers and his struggles to remember certain facts.

Biden was the one who brought up the death of his son. Hur didn’t mean to frighten Biden. The report looked at Biden’s memory loss during the 20-hour interview with Mark Zwonitzer, his ghostwriter. Biden read out loud passages of classified documents at least three times to Zwonizter. It is also illegal to share classified information.

The bottom line, Biden should have been in much more trouble than he was. This proves that Washington has a double standard when it comes to the law.