President Joe Biden and Special Counsel Robert Hur.
Published March 13, 2024
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After spending weeks breathlessly questioning President Joe Biden’s mental faculties in the wake of Special Counsel Robert Hur’s explosive report, some of America’s top news organizations on Tuesday effectively stated that Hur’s characterization of the commander-in-chief was off base.
The Wall Street Journal declared that the transcripts of Biden’s deposition with Hur released on Tuesday painted “a more nuanced picture” than the report indicated. The New York Times found that Biden appeared “clearheaded,” despite having fumbled some dates. And The Washington Post concluded Biden “doesn’t come across as being as absent-minded as Hur has made him out to be.”
In other words, the Hur report offered a misleading view of the president’s mental state. That’s a significant problem for news organizations, given that much of their recent coverage about Biden’s age was derived from that very report where Hur offered a wince-inducing depiction of the president as a “sympathetic, well-meaning elderly man with a poor memory.”
The acknowledgement from some, but not all, news outlets on Tuesday about the true nature of Biden’s deposition marked another embarrassing moment for the national press, which has floundered at pivotal moments in the lead up to the crucial 2024 presidential election.
The deposition transcripts not only indicated that Biden appeared fairly sharp during his testimony, joking with investigators and retelling stories with granular detail, but that Hur was misleading in how he presented some of the information included in his report.
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SOURCE: www.cnn.com
RELATED: Democrats Are Seething After Robert Hur’s Testimony, and the Highlights Are Brutal for Joe Biden
Published March 12, 2024
Congressional testimonies often don’t live up to the hype, but Robert Hur’s trip to Capitol Hill on Tuesday was everything Republicans were hoping it would be.
The now-former special counsel was in charge of investigating Joe Biden’s theft and mishandling of classified documents, some of which were found unsecured in his garage.
That led to a report from Hur that was lambasted by Democrats for supposedly overstepping its bounds. What was the issue? It included ample evidence of the current president’s senility, including significant memory loss.
But if Democrats were hoping to beat back some of the narratives produced by Hur’s accurate portrayal of the facts, they quickly found out he wasn’t there to play along with their gambit.
Special Counsel Hur defends his assessment of Biden’s memory in his report:
Special Counsel Hur defends his assessment of Biden’s memory in his report:
“The evidence and the president himself put his memory squarely at issue…my assessment in the report about the relevance of the president’s memory was necessary and accurate and fair.” pic.twitter.com/qZ36KOWeuh
— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) March 12, 2024
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SOURCE: www.redstate.com
RELATED: Special Counsel Robert Hur – Joe Biden “Willfully Retained Classified Materials After the End of His Vice Presidency, as a Private Citizen”
Published March 12, 2024
Special Counsel Robert Hur is testifying before Congress today.
Hur was subpoenaed in February to testify before Congress regarding his findings in the Joe Biden classified documents case.
Special Counsel Robert Hur last month released a 345-page report on his investigation of the stolen classified documents.
Biden’s stolen classified documents were scattered all over the place in damaged cardboard boxes and unlocked drawers at the Penn Biden Center. The documents were also easily accessible in Biden’s Delaware garage and basement den.
Robert Hur found that Joe Biden “willfully retained” classified information, however, he decided not to charge him. Hur said there is evidence Biden retained classified notebooks, “knowing he was not allowed to do so.”
The Justice Department defended not bringing charges against Biden because he’s a “sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory.”
