Thursday, February 8, 2024

Robert Hur report

Special counsel Robert Hur said President Biden, during his time as a private citizen, “willfully” kept classified documents on Afghanistan and more from his time in the Obama administration, according to the report he issued Thursday.

  The Hill
Full 388-page report is in that article.

And he also said some other stuff...
In opting not to bring charges, Hur, who was appointed by former President Trump to serve as U.S. attorney for the District of Maryland in 2017, cited the shortage of evidence, but also how Biden would present himself to a jury.

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“Based on our direct interactions with and observations of him, he is someone for whom many jurors will want to identify reasonable doubt. It would be difficult to convince a jury that they should convict him — by then a former president well into his eighties — of a serious felony that requires a mental state of willfulness.”

The report on more than one occasion refers to Biden struggling to remember things when he spoke to a ghostwriter for his memoir, as well as when he was speaking to investigators.

Hur cited Biden’s 2017 conversations with ghostwriter Mark Zwonitzer, which Hur described as “painfully slow, with Mr. Biden struggling to remember events and straining at times to read and relay his own notebook entries.”

“In his interview with our office, Mr. Biden’s memory was worse,” Hur wrote.

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The special counsel at one point in the report wrote that Biden “did not remember when he was vice president,” forgetting when his term ended, and in another instance forgot when his term began. Hur reported Biden did not remember when his son Beau had died, and his memory “appeared hazy” when speaking about a debate over Afghanistan that was critical to his memoirs.

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Twice this week Biden has confused the names of European leaders he met with at a Group of Seven Summit early in his presidency.

  The Hill
There's some good Republican campaign fodder.
“If you’re too senile to stand trial, then you’re too senile to be president. Joe Biden is unfit to lead this nation,” Alex Pfeiffer, communications director for the pro-Trump super PAC Make America Great Again Inc., said in a statement.

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Attorney General Merrick Garland appointed Hur as the special counsel handling the investigation in January of 2023, shortly after it was made public that classified documents were discovered at Biden’s Delaware home.
Maybe not the best choice on Garland's part.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

UPDATE 02/10/2024:


I have a feeling that if Biden is reelected, Merrick Garland will be replaced.  He'll certainly be replaced if a Republican is elected, so he's probably a one-term AG.  Too bad he didn't get a shot at the Supreme Court, because his career is pretty much over.

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