Former Special Counsel Robert Hur: Biden ‘Willfully Retained Classified Materials,’ Read it to His Ghostwriter
Former Special Counsel Ben Hur will testify before the House Judiciary Committee today.
Former Special Counsel Robert Hur will testify before the House Judiciary Committee today.
Biden Did It, But His Mental State!
So is Biden okay or not? This is a no win situation for the Democrats:
Ex-Special Counsel Robert Hur testified Tuesday that President Biden “willfully retained classified materials,” but said he “had to consider” the president’s “memory and overall mental state” when determining whether to bring charges against him.
Hur, who testified publicly before the House Judiciary and Oversight Committees Tuesday, explained that he did not bring charges against the president despite the willful retention of classified records about military and foreign policy in Afghanistan and other countries, among other records related to national security and foreign policy, which Hur said implicated “sensitive intelligence sources and methods.”
“My team and I conducted a thorough, independent investigation,” Hur testified. “We identified evidence that the President willfully retained classified materials after the end of his vice presidency, when he was a private citizen.”
“This evidence included an audiorecorded conversation during which Mr. Biden told his ghostwriter that he had ‘just found all the classified stuff downstairs.’ When Mr. Biden said this, he was a private citizen speaking to his ghostwriter in his private rental home in Virginia,” Hur continued. “We also identified other recorded conversations during which Mr. Biden read classified information aloud to his ghostwriter.”
He added, though, that “we did not, however, identify evidence that rose to the level of proof beyond a reasonable doubt. Because the evidence fell short of that standard, I declined to recommend criminal charges against Mr. Biden.”
Previous Reporting
He will defend his conclusion of not charging President Joe Biden for mishandling classified records.
He plans to tell the House Judiciary Committee:
“My assessment in the report about the relevance of the President’s memory was necessary and accurate and fair,” Hur wrote in a copy of the remarks obtained by Fox News. “Most importantly, what I wrote is what I believe the evidence shows, and what I expect jurors would perceive and believe. I did not sanitize my explanation. Nor did I disparage the President unfairly. I explained to the Attorney General my decision and the reasons for it. That’s what I was required to do.”
“I analyzed the evidence as prosecutors routinely do: by assessing its strengths and weaknesses, including by anticipating the ways in which the President’s defense lawyers might poke holes in the government’s case if there were a trial and seek to persuade jurors that the government could not prove his guilt beyond a reasonable doubt,” Hur added.
Hur also will say: “There has been a lot of attention paid to language in the report about the President’s memory, so let me say a few words about that. My task was to determine whether the President retained or disclosed national defense information “willfully”—meaning, knowingly and with the intent to do something the law forbids. I could not make that determination without assessing the President’s state of mind.”
Hur will make these claims even though the transcript Biden fumbled the interview.
Biden lashed out at Hur for bringing up his dead son Beau. The transcript shows Biden brought him up:
“How in the hell dare he raise that,” Biden said about Hur on the day the report was released. “Frankly, when I was asked the question, I thought to myself it wasn’t any of their damn business.”
In a copy of the transcripts obtained by Fox News, it appears Biden himself was the one who brought up the timing of Beau’s passing when speaking to Hur about his time living at a rental home in Virginia in 2017, after leaving his role as vice president.
“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?” Hur asked Biden.
“This is, what, 2017, 2018, that area?” Biden responded, before later saying “and so what was happening, though – what month did Beau die? Oh, God, May 30th.”
A White House lawyer then said 2015.
“Was it 2015 he had died?” Biden said.
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Robert Hur. Ben Hur. Does this movie have an intermission?
I don’t think Ben Hur was a corrupt hack doing the bidding of other corrupt hacks at the corrupt DOJ, so it would be a slightly different movie, without the respite of an intermission.
There will be no intermission, no let up in the B.S. that is flying, until Trump wins and Biden is sent off to live in an asylum for the rest of his dispicable rotten life.
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This is the largest campaign of plugged ears with tongues uttering “La La La” ever witnessed by man.
“Special counsel Robert Hur, who investigated and declined to charge former President Joe Biden over classified materials found in his home and office, resigned from the Justice Department and will appear as a private citizen in his testimony to the House Judiciary Committee…”
Biden says Lincoln Hur is a very clean documented Asian whom he can’t remember.
How dare that, that Ben Riley to ask about my son’s death? It’s none of your damn business!
Who worked his way through law school by working at a 7/11 or was that Cold Stone Creamery?
I wish some would ask Hur
“next year, another prosecutor could look at your work and come to a different conclusion
and decide to prosecute Biden, right “
the state prosecutor in FL came in and overruled the local prosecutor in Zimmerman’s case
He said that 2017-2018 was either around when his son was deployed (Beau left Iraq in 2009) or when he died (2015). So, not only does he not remember key years in his life, but he really does think that Beau’s deployment and death were linked in time.
He kept saying it in speeches, and people kept fact-checking him, but he appears to really believe it. In his mind two events 6 years apart are co-mingled.
This entire farce is just displaying what a complete joke Hur is.
Well, he got his start when Trump appointed him to be a federal district attorney. So a joke appoints another joke?
Asinine comment
When a President, like Trump, is so stupid as to appoint people like Hur to powerful positions of being a prosecutor, what do you expect? Trump will do the exact same thing if he is re-elected. He is so stupid and has no understanding of the deep state.
Were you born stupid, or do you really have to work at it?
It’s not clear to me which it is.
Not really tbh. Trump appointed the swamp, consistently. He froze out his “MAGA” supporters. None of his 2016 campaign leadership got jobs in the new administration; that’s unheard of.
Trump forgot how to say “you’re fired” when he became president.
Judge Trump by what he did, not what he is in your imagination. He’s still probably the better choice this November, and his legal persecution is making him very sympathetic to a lot of voters, but he is what he is, not something else.
Quite aside from the fact that there is no such thing as a federal district attorney, this is a nonsense comment. U.S. Attorneys are usually selected by the senators from the state and the nomination is submitted and sponsored by the President.
But, but Trump!!111!!1
So they wait until the morning of the hearing to actually produce the transcripts that are part of the basis for the decision making involved. Talk about perfect timing or maybe collusion.
I had started to listen but got bored; I’m not a huge fan of Kabuki theater.
The Democrats just kept saying, “But Orange Man…!
Watching the Democrats spew about Trump is sad. So hateful!
Wish someone would focus on SENATOR Biden lawful approach to classified documents.
This is the problem many have with the double standards of all this.
The FBI raided Trumps place, full noise, without a shred of decency looking for documents Trump had every right to be in possession of.
Biden on the other hand, was not raided even though he had classified documents in multiple unsecured locations with no way of tracking who had access to those documents AND the collection of those documents was left up to Bidens lawyers.
The system absolutely needs to be burnt to the ground.
And he had no right to the documents!! He was VP not president
Forget VP. He had documents from when he was a freaking SENATOR.
>>. . . AND the collection of those documents was left up to Bidens lawyers.
And did any of Biden’s lawyers actually have clearance to handle these documents?
Wasn’t one of the allegations/charges leveled against Trump that he talked about classified information with someone in his Mar-a-Lago office? But Biden reads classified documents to his ghost writer and we get crickets.
yes . and Trump’s house boy got charged for moving documents while Joe’s ghost writer deleted them and got nothing
But deleting them is allowed. It’s the Hillary Precedent.
and who is to say they recovered all the documents that BYEDONE stole ??
“This is the problem many have with the double standards of all this.” What are you talking about, the Hur report describes in detail exactly why it wasn’t a double standard. It was then explained in detail at the actual hearing why there is no double standard.
“The FBI raided Trumps place, full noise, without a shred of decency looking for documents Trump had every right to be in possession of.” Err no, he didn’t no credible person claims he had a right to them, and the fact that he had them moved and got his lawyers to lie as well as attempting to erase security footage makes your statement pretty silly.
The elites don’t care. If the elites don’t care the government doesn’t care and the propagandists will say what the elites pay them to say.
Poor old Joe. I suspect he is about three juice infusions away from kicking the bucket.
Mr Hur, have you ever been reversed by the SCOTUS 9-0 ?
Jack Smith was reversed 9-0 in the McDonnel case, OMG another republican !!
and he could have refiled the charges but chose not to because the damage was done. Mission accomplished, ended McDonnel’s political career
or Ted Stevens, yet another Republican
While both those prosecutions were horribly unjust, too many people don’t really understand the extent to which Stevens was undone by corrupt DOJ and FBI agents. In many ways, that entire event foreshadowed what the government would do to Trump.
the reason the dims have waited to prosecute Trump is when they convict him, any reversals will come later
way after the damage is done
Biden will be the first president to pardon himself while in office
First person to pardon himself and a child.
Let Biden alone. If he’s removed from office we’ll have Vice President Halfwit in the Oval Office, and nobody wants that!
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We already have President Quarter-wit.
So apparently all Trump has to do is act real stupid,.just like Joe and then he gets off,…..right?
Don’t worry. Trump has acted really stupid already. Just like Joe.
I bow to your personal knowledge of stupidity
congrats
Speaking of stupid, here you are.
Right on cue.
May I recommend some Preparation H for your Trump butt-hurt.
If the Left is functionally and effectively above the law, what obligation does everybody else have to restrict their actions to within that same law? That is the game that the Left is playing and expects no one else to ever catch on.
Subotai Bahadur
Yeah, they don’t get that the law is mostly an agreement. When people see other people ditching it, they don’t play along themseves any more.
When people stop conforming on their own, you get Irish Democracy. The paper-pushers haven’t considered that — it wasn’t in their homework problems.