Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) used up his time during a Tuesday hearing on Capitol Hill to lay out a case against former President Donald Trump — and then appeared to get frustrated when the witness, Special Counsel <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/robert-hur" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Robert Hur</a>, refused to help him do it.
Hur testified Tuesday on his investigation into President Joe Biden and his handling of the classified documents that were found in his possession — but instead of asking him about that, Swalwell behaved as though it was another Trump impeachment hearing and asked Hur to condemn the former president.
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WATCH: Congressman Eric Swalwell uses his time to bash Trump and falsely state that Trump wants to stop legal immigration and tries to get Special Counsel Hur to condemn Trump and he’s having none of it! 
“I’m not here to talk about Trump, I’m here to talk about this report… <a href="https://t.co/D3vNXJMaXt">pic.twitter.com/D3vNXJMaXt</a>
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Swalwell began by addressing Hur&#8217;s personal history, saying that he had been &#8220;moved&#8221; by Hur&#8217;s parents&#8217; &#8220;immigrant story&#8221; — and within seconds, he had pivoted to attacking Trump, claiming that the former president would put an end to immigration if he had a second chance in the White House.
&#8220;It&#8217;s the story of America. It&#8217;s a story that the guy who appointed you would end if he was put in charge again,&#8221; Swalwell said, making no distinction between legal and illegal immigration, and adding that Republicans across the board were behind Trump on that issue.
Swalwell pivoted again, asking Hur whether he wanted his report on the Biden investigation &#8220;to be received with credibility&#8221; — and then immediately implied that in order for his report to be credible, Hur would have to disavow Trump.
&#8220;Since you were appointed, he was impeached for leveraging 350 U.S. — $350 million U.S. taxpayer dollars over Ukraine to get dirt on President Biden,&#8221; Swalwell said. &#8220;He was then impeached a second time for inciting an insurrection. He was charged for possessing classified documents and obstructing justice. He was charged for paying for the silence of a porn star. He was charged in Georgia for his role in January 6th. He was charged in the District of Columbia for his role in January 6th. He owes $400 million to the state of New York for defrauding the state through his taxes. And he has been judged a rapist.&#8221;
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Swalwell then turned to Hur, saying, &#8220;You want to be perceived as credible, so I want to first see if you will pledge to not accept an appointment from Trump if he is elected again as president.&#8221;
&#8220;Congressman, I am not here to testify about what will happen —&#8221; Hur pushed back, but Swalwell did not allow him to finish.
&#8220;Seems like an easy answer,&#8221; he interrupted. &#8220;Considering I just laid out —&#8221;
&#8220;I&#8217;m here to talk about this report and the work that went into it,&#8221; Hur stated.
Swalwell tried one more time to get a condemnation from Hur: &#8220;You don&#8217;t want to be associated with that guy again, do you?&#8221;
Hur refused to budge from his initial position: &#8220;I’m not here to talk about Trump; I’m here to talk about this report, which investigated Biden.&#8221;

Special Counsel Robert Hur Testifies On Biden’s Classified Documents Investigation

Eric Swalwell Tries To Impeach Trump At Hur Hearing, Gets Frustrated When Hur Won’t Help

Eric Swalwell Tries To Impeach Trump At Hur Hearing, Gets Frustrated When Hur Won't Help

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During a Capitol Hill hearing on Tuesday, Robert Hur got into a contentious back-and-forth with Rep. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/adam-schiff" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Adam Schiff</a> (D-CA) over how his special counsel report on President Joe Biden&#8217;s handling of classified documents while out of office dealt with the thorny issue of the commander-in-chief&#8217;s<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/released-transcripts-show-biden-lied-about-key-detail-in-documents-probe" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> foggy memory</a>.
Schiff charged that Hur must have known he was injecting his &#8220;personal, prejudicial, subjective opinion&#8221; into the <a href="https://www.justice.gov/storage/report-from-special-counsel-robert-k-hur-february-2024.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a> — which described Biden as a &#8220;sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory&#8221; whom a jury likely would not convict &#8220;of a serious felony that requires a mental state of willfulness&#8221; — that political rivals could seize upon in an election season.
When Schiff tried to pivot to the criminal documents case against former President Donald Trump, Hur brought the conversation back to what the California Democrat had just said about the investigation into Biden and lobbed his own accusation at the congressman.
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&#8220;What you are suggesting is that I needed to provide a different version of my report that would be fit for public release. That is nowhere in the rules. I was to prepare a confidential report that was comprehensive and thorough,&#8221; Hur said.
Schiff said the rules demanded that Hur not &#8220;gratuitously do things to prejudice the subject of an investigation when you are declining to prosecute,&#8221; particularly with language &#8220;that you know will be useful in a political campaign.&#8221;
&#8220;You understood exactly what you were doing,&#8221; Schiff said, adding later, &#8220;That was a political choice. It was the wrong choice.&#8221;
In reply, Hur said, &#8220;What you are suggesting is that I shape, sanitize, omit portions of my reasoning and explanation to the attorney general for political reasons — &#8221;
Schiff interjected and declared, &#8220;No, I suggested that you not shape your political report for political reasons, which is what you did.&#8221;
With Schiff&#8217;s time expiring, Hur was allowed to get in one final response: &#8220;That did not happen.&#8221;
<a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?c5109900/user-clip-adam-schiff-accuses-robert-hur-anti-biden-bias" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Earlier in the exchange</a>, Hur explained that regulations &#8220;required&#8221; him to write a confidential report explaining his decision-making to Attorney General Merrick Garland.
But it was ultimately Garland&#8217;s call on how much of the report to release to the public in accordance with legal requirements and Department of Justice policy, Hur added.
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Schiff, who is running for Senate, served as the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee for several years, including as its chairman. But he was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/mccarthy-formally-kicks-schiff-and-swalwell-from-house-intel-integrity-matters-more" target="_blank" rel="noopener">kicked off</a> the panel last year by then-Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA), who had accused Schiff of being a repeat liar, particularly with investigations related to Trump.
The GOP-led House later voted to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/house-votes-to-censure-adam-schiff" target="_blank" rel="noopener">censure</a> Schiff over allegations that he abused his access to sensitive information and misled the American people about Trump’s ties to Russia and more. The congressman rejected the censure resolution as a “sham” and said he would wear the rebuke as a “badge of honor.”
Over the weekend, Schiff said that he hopes the U.S. intelligence community will <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/schiff-hopes-intel-officials-dumb-down-trump-briefings" target="_blank" rel="noopener">&#8220;dumb down&#8221;</a> briefings for Trump if he secures the GOP nomination ahead of a possible 2020 rematch against Biden in November&#8217;s election.

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Accusations Fly As Hur Clashes With Schiff On Biden Docs Report

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President Joe Biden exhibited a series of memory lapses during his five-hour interview with Special Counsel Robert Hur, prompting White House lawyers to rescue him when he could not recall when he served as vice president, when his son Beau died of cancer, when former President Donald Trump was elected, or what a fax machine was.
A <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/joe-biden/full-text-robert-hur-biden-classified-documents-interview-pdf-rcna142956" target="_blank" rel="noopener">full transcript</a> of the interview—during which Hur pressed Biden about his handling of classified documents found in his possession—was released Tuesday ahead of Hur&#8217;s testimony on Capitol Hill. It appeared to support part of the reasoning behind Hur&#8217;s decision not to prosecute. Hur said when he first released his report that he believed a jury would find Biden to simply be too old and forgetful.
At one point during the interview, Biden struggled to recall the term &#8220;fax machine&#8221; as he described the layout of his library — and one of the White House lawyers bailed him out.
Later in the interview, he brought up the topic of his son Beau Biden, who died of cancer in 2015 — but he struggled to recall the date that it happened even though he appeared to be aware that it was the reason he had not run for president while he was the outgoing vice president.
<blockquote>Biden: Well, um &#8230; I, I, I, I, I don&#8217;t know. This is what, 2017, 2018, that area?
Hur: Yes.
Biden:  Remember, in this timeframe my son is — either been deployed or is dying &#8230; And, and so what was happening, though — what month did Beau die? Oh, God, May 30
Lawyer: 2015
Biden: Was it 2015 he had died?</blockquote>
Just seconds later, Biden couldn&#8217;t remember when President Donald Trump was elected, asking, &#8220;Trump gets elected in November of 2017?&#8221;
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When two people corrected him, noting that Trump was elected in 2016, Biden seemed confused: &#8220;16, 2016, all right, so why do I have 2017 here?&#8221;
White House Counsel Ed Siskel jumped in, saying, &#8220;That&#8217;s when you left office.&#8221;
In addition to forgetting what to call a fax machine a second time, other questions Biden asked during the proceedings included, &#8220;When did I announce for President?&#8221; and, &#8220;Well, if it was 2013 — when did I stop being Vice President?&#8221;

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‘When Did I Stop Being Vice President?’: Hur Transcript Paints Damning Picture Of Biden’s Mental State

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Special counsel Robert Hur will tell lawmakers on Tuesday that his assessment of President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/joe-biden" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Joe Biden</a>’s memory during his classified documents probe was “accurate and fair,” according to a copy of his prepared testimony for the House Judiciary Committee.
Hur’s testimony will come after transcripts of his interview with Biden were released showing that <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/released-transcripts-show-biden-lied-about-key-detail-in-documents-probe" target="_blank" rel="noopener">the president lied</a> about a key detail of the investigation into whether he mishandled classified documents. In February, Hur released a report saying that Biden willfully retained classified documents, but should not be charged because a jury would likely see him as an aging man with a poor memory. 
&#8220;My assessment in the report about the relevance of the President’s memory was necessary and accurate and fair,&#8221; Hur wrote in a copy of his testimony <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/live-news/special-counsel-robert-hur-testimony-joe-biden-classified-documents" target="_blank" rel="noopener">obtained</a> by Fox News. &#8220;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.&#8221;
&#8220;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,&#8221; Hur wrote. 
Hur added that it was necessary to evaluate Biden’s memory to determine whether Biden had purposely kept classified documents in his possession after leaving the vice presidency. 
&#8220;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,” he is expected to say. “My task was to determine whether the President retained or disclosed national defense information &#8216;willfully&#8217;—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.&#8221;
One of the key details included in Hur’s report was that Biden did not remember the year his son Beau died. Biden said that he was taken aback by a question about his son, claiming that it was Hur who brought up the death. 
“There’s even a reference that I don’t remember when my son died,” Biden said in February. “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 transcripts, <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/US/transcript-documents-probe-contradicts-bidens-account-exchange-hur/story?id=108033689&amp;cid=social_twitter_abcn" target="_blank" rel="noopener">obtained by ABC</a>, show that it was Biden who brought up his son. Biden’s confusion came after being asked what he was doing after Trump took office. 
“And so I hadn’t, I hadn’t at this point … 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,” he said, according to the transcript. “And, and so what was happening though — what month did Beau die? Oh, God, May 30th-”
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The release of the transcripts came just ahead of Hur’s testimony before the House, where he will be questioned by lawmakers about his investigation into Biden. 
Former President Donald Trump, who is facing charges over his handling of classified documents, <a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/112082714657611985" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> on Truth Social Tuesday morning that Biden had more documents in his possession than him and that Biden had no authority to keep the documents because he wasn’t president. 
“Big day in Congress for the Biden Documents Hoax. He had many times more documents, including classified documents, than I, or any other president, had. He had them all over the place, with ZERO supervision or security. He does NOT come under the Presidential Records Act, I DO,” Trump said. “He had many docs in CHINATOWN, and they were moved all over the place, and heavily used. My boxes were moved by GSA, were secure, most carried clothing, shoes, sporting equipment, kitchen “stuff,” newspapers, pictures, magazines, awards, etc. The DOJ gave Biden, and virtually every other person and President, a free pass. Me, I’m still fighting!!! MAGA”

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Robert Hur To Tell Lawmakers His Assessment Of Biden’s Memory Was ‘Accurate And Fair’

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President Joe Biden lied about his testimony with special counsel Robert Hur, according to new transcripts of Hur&#8217;s interviews with Biden over his handling of classified documents. 
Hur’s February report concluded that Biden willfully retained classified documents but recommended no criminal charges in part because it said that Biden had a faulty memory and would appear as a sympathetic old man to a jury. One of the key details included in the report was that Biden did not remember the year his son Beau died. Biden said that he was taken aback by a question about his son, claiming that it was Hur who brought up the death. 
&#8220;There&#8217;s even a reference that I don&#8217;t remember when my son died,&#8221; Biden said in February. &#8220;How in the hell dare he raise that? Frankly, when I was asked the question, I thought to myself: It wasn&#8217;t any of their damn business.&#8221;
The transcripts, <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/US/transcript-documents-probe-contradicts-bidens-account-exchange-hur/story?id=108033689&amp;cid=social_twitter_abcn" target="_blank" rel="noopener">obtained by ABC</a>, show that it was actually Biden who brought up his son. Biden’s confusion came after he was asked about what he was doing after Trump took office. 
&#8220;And so I hadn&#8217;t, I hadn&#8217;t at this point &#8230; I hadn&#8217;t walked away from the idea that I may run for office again. But if I ran again, I&#8217;d be running for president,&#8221; he said, according to the transcript obtained by ABC. &#8220;And, and so what was happening though — what month did Beau die? Oh, God, May 30th-”
Two people at the interview chimed in and said it was 2015, after which Biden said, “Was it 2015 he had died?”
&#8220;It was May of 2015,&#8221; one person responded. 
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Elsewhere in the transcripts, Biden said &#8220;I&#8217;m a young man, so it&#8217;s not a problem,” when asked by Hur to discuss previous events as accurately as possible. 
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Biden also made a comment about how he hoped investigators had not found “any risqué pictures of my wife in a bathing suit,” adding, &#8220;She&#8217;s beautiful.”
Biden also told interviewers that he did not mean to keep any classified documents. 
&#8220;I had no purpose for them, and I think it would be inappropriate for me to keep clearly classified documents,&#8221; he said, before saying that it was his staff who packed his belongings from the White House. &#8220;I don&#8217;t want to hold them responsible or get them in trouble, but I believe they were the ones who were packing up &#8230; and were deciding, you know, where, where things were going, to the best of my knowledge,&#8221; he said. 
Biden also discussed moving boxes, which were full of classified documents, out of the way in his garage to park his car. He said he did not know what was in the boxes. 
&#8220;I remember moving boxes, literally physically moving them, with help, one side to the other so I could get the Corvette in that garage on the left,&#8221; Biden said. Other portions of the transcript show Biden talking about his Corvette and &#8220;making car sounds.&#8221;
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In which President Biden engages in a long discussion about cars as Robert Hur tries, unsuccessfully, to get him back on track. Twice, according to the transcript, the president &quot;makes car sound.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/tEo5X59pjB">pic.twitter.com/tEo5X59pjB</a>
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Joe Biden literally said &quot;My Corvette go BRRRRR&quot; while Robert Hur pleaded with him to answer actual questions <a href="https://t.co/7dSk53VG3Y">pic.twitter.com/7dSk53VG3Y</a>
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The release of the transcripts come hours before Hur is set to testify before the House Judiciary Committee.

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Released Transcripts Show Biden Lied About Key Detail In Documents Probe

Sen. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/ted-cruz" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ted Cruz</a> (R-TX) said this week that President Joe Biden&#8217;s disastrous press conference last week confirmed Special Counsel Robert Hur&#8217;s conclusion that Biden has serious memory issues.
Hur concluded last week in his criminal investigation into Biden’s handling of classified material that Biden “willfully retained and disclosed classified materials,” but that no criminal charges were warranted because prosecutors believe they would not win a conviction against Biden since he will present himself to a jury as “a sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory.”
Biden later decided to hold a press conference, and during the event, he ended up <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-explodes-during-press-conference-on-his-mental-fitness-makes-several-mental-mistakes">exploding</a> at reporters who pointed out voters’ concerns about his age and declared that he was the most qualified person in America to be president. He also mixed up the presidents of Egypt and Mexico, forgot the name of the church where his deceased son got the rosary that he wears every day, and forgot key details from the special counsel’s report.
Cruz responded to the latest developments on Biden&#8217;s fitness for office during his &#8220;Verdict&#8221; podcast with co-host Ben Ferguson by saying that the Department of Justice &#8220;accidentally told the truth&#8221; about Biden&#8217;s mental fitness and now the Biden administration was being forced to deal with &#8220;a political emergency.&#8221;
&#8220;Biden responded by holding a press conference in which his meandering, rambling answers confirmed everything said in the Special Counsel report, including that one point of the elements of the report that demonstrated why his memory was so failing is it said he could not remember when his son had died,&#8221; Cruz said. &#8220;And when Biden is defending that, he points to some rosary beads that he wore, that were given to him and said &#8216;were given to me by, were given to me by&#8230;&#8217; and then he can&#8217;t remember, can&#8217;t remember what the details are about the rosary beads. That, to put it mildly, is not a good look, when you&#8217;re trying to demonstrate that you have a good enough memory to function if you can&#8217;t actually remember your response to that attack.&#8221;
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There&#39;s an old joke that goes, &quot;a gaffe is when a politician accidentally tells the truth.&quot;
The DOJ told the truth about Biden&#39;s failing mental capacity, &amp; the White House is melting down.
Unpacking the failed response to this political emergency 👇<a href="https://t.co/d9ykRSa3hq">https://t.co/d9ykRSa3hq</a> <a href="https://t.co/jJOzpaXEM8">pic.twitter.com/jJOzpaXEM8</a>
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Ted Cruz: Disastrous Biden Press Conference Confirms His ‘Incredible Loss Of Faculties’

Ted Cruz: Disastrous Biden Press Conference Confirms His 'Incredible Loss Of Faculties'

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Just over half of voters surveyed in a new poll say that President Joe Biden received special treatment during special counsel Robert Hur’s investigation into his handling of classified documents.
A survey conducted by <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/us/half-americans-think-biden-got-special-treatment-document-probe-reutersipsos-2024-02-13/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Reuters/Ipsos</a> found that 53% of the Americans polled agree that &#8220;Biden received special treatment because he is the U.S. president.&#8221; That majority included 29% of Democrats who agreed with the statement. The four-day-long poll closed on Monday and was released on Tuesday morning.
Last Thursday, Hur released his <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/special-counsel-biden-willfully-retained-disclosed-classified-materials-but-no-criminal-charges-warranted">report</a> on Biden’s handling of classified documents, concluding that there is “evidence that President Biden willfully retained and disclosed classified materials after his vice presidency when he was a private citizen,” but said “no criminal charges are warranted in this matter.” The special counsel also argued that it would be unlikely a jury would convict the 81-year-old Biden of a “serious felony” because of his “mental state,” describing the president &#8220;as a sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory.&#8221;
Of those polled by Reuters/Ipsos, nearly half — 46% — said they were at least somewhat familiar with Hur’s less-than-flattering description of Biden. The poll also revealed troubling findings for Biden’s re-election campaign as Reuters reported that 78% of those surveyed, including 71% of Democrats, believe the president is too old to remain in government. Only 53% of respondents said that 77-year-old Donald Trump is too old to be elected to office.
Trump, who is in the midst of his own classified documents case, said last week that the special counsel’s decision to clear Biden shows “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/selective-persecution-trump-says-he-should-not-be-charged-after-biden-cleared-by-special-counsel" target="_blank" rel="noopener">selective persecution</a>.”
“If Biden is not going to be charged … that’s up to them, but then I should not be charged,” the former president <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/selective-persecution-trump-says-he-should-not-be-charged-after-biden-cleared-by-special-counsel">said</a>. “This is nothing more than selective persecution of Biden’s political opponent, me.”
Trump was hit with 40 charges over his handling of classified documents after he left office, which include charges of obstructing government officials from retrieving the documents. The FBI raided Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in August 2022 to confiscate the classified documents, but Trump has maintained his innocence, saying that he is protected by the Presidential Records Act.
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Biden addressed the special counsel’s report in a press conference on Thursday evening when he said that the investigation’s conclusion means the classified documents scandal is behind him. During the press conference, the president also <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-explodes-during-press-conference-on-his-mental-fitness-makes-several-mental-mistakes" target="_blank" rel="noopener">snapped</a> at reporters who asked him to address the report’s revelations about his memory. Biden responded, saying he is “the most qualified person in the United States to be president.”
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Majority Of Americans Say Biden Got Special Treatment In Classified Documents Investigation, Poll Finds

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Bob Bauer, the personal lawyer for President Joe Biden, claimed during an interview over the weekend that Special Counsel Robert Hur&#8217;s report on Biden&#8217;s handling of classified material was a &#8220;shoddy&#8221; piece of work that contained numerous &#8220;misstatements of fact&#8221; from Hur&#8217;s interview with Biden, yet when pressed, he declined to call for the release of the interview transcript which could potentially validate his claims.
Hur found during the criminal investigation that Biden “willfully retained and disclosed classified materials,” but argued for no charges to be brought because Biden had serious cognitive issues — including not remembering when his son died or when he served as vice president in the Obama administration. Hur <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/special-counsel-biden-has-significantly-limited-memory-didnt-remember-when-he-was-vp-or-when-son-died">concluded</a> that a jury would view Biden as “a sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory.”
&#8220;This is a report that went off the rails. It&#8217;s shabby work product,&#8221; Bauer claimed about the report. &#8220;The investigation could have been concluded in two or three months. It went on for over 15 months. And so along with the legal conclusion comes this flood of characterizations, factual misstatements, pejorative comments about the president that are inconsistent with DOJ policy and norms, and that, as you see over the last 48 hours, have been widely criticized by legal experts. This is not what prosecutors do. It is shoddy work product.&#8221;
Bauer claimed that there were &#8220;misstatements of fact&#8221; in the report from Biden&#8217;s interview with Hur and claimed Hur&#8217;s legal analysis was &#8220;totally inappropriate.&#8221; He also claimed that Biden was &#8220;engaged with the questions very directly&#8221; during the interview and that he was &#8220;compelling and forceful&#8221; in his testimony.
Brennan then asked Bauer if he was in favor of getting the transcripts from the interview declassified so they could be released to the public.
&#8220;I&#8217;m not a specialist in that process,&#8221; he said. &#8220;And so I really have to defer to those who have to work through those issues.&#8221;
Biden held a press conference late Thursday night in an attempt to demonstrate his mental fitness but instead <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-explodes-during-press-conference-on-his-mental-fitness-makes-several-mental-mistakes">exploded</a> at reporters who pointed out voters’ concerns about his age and declared that he was the most qualified person in America to be president. During the event, Biden mixed up the presidents of Egypt and Mexico, forgot the name of the church where his deceased son got the rosary that he wears every day, and forgot key details from the special counsel’s report.
Brennan asked about the press conference and asked if Biden had memory problems.
&#8220;He does not,&#8221; Bauer claimed as he proceeded to talk about the special counsel and ignore the numerous mistakes that Biden made during the press conference.
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Biden Lawyer Claims ‘Shoddy’ Special Counsel Report Full Of ‘Misstatements Of Fact’, Won’t Call For Release Of Transcript

Former President Donald Trump argued Friday night for charges against him to be dropped in his classified documents case after a DOJ special counsel <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/special-counsel-biden-willfully-retained-disclosed-classified-materials-but-no-criminal-charges-warranted" target="_blank" rel="noopener">recommended no charges</a> for President Joe Biden in a separate classified documents probe.
Trump spoke to a crowd gathered for a National Rifle Association meeting in Pennsylvania and said that Special Counsel Robert Hur’s Thursday report suggesting no criminal charges for Biden is an example of “selective persecution.” Hur’s investigation concluded that there is “evidence that President Biden willfully retained and disclosed classified materials after his vice presidency when he was a private citizen,” but said “no criminal charges are warranted in this matter.”
“If Biden is not going to be charged … that’s up to them, but then I should not be charged,” the former president said. “This is nothing more than selective persecution of Biden’s political opponent, me.”
The special counsel <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/white-house-fumes-over-special-counsel-report-highlighting-bidens-poor-memory" target="_blank" rel="noopener">argued</a> that it would be unlikely a jury would convict the 81-year-old Biden of a “serious felony” because of his “mental state.”
“Mr. Biden’s memory was significantly limited, both during his recorded interviews with the ghostwriter in 2017 [with whom he shared classified materials], and in his interview with our office in 2023,” Hur’s report said. “We have also considered that, at trial, Mr. Biden would likely present himself to a jury, as he did during our interview of him, as a sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory.”
The report added that 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.”
During his speech at the NRA meeting on Friday night, Trump also slammed the president’s mental state, saying he “doesn’t know if it’s Biden” who is pushing the DOJ to target him.
“I don’t think he knows he’s alive,” Trump said.
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Trump was hit with 40 charges over his handling of classified documents after he left office, which include charges of obstructing government officials from retrieving the documents. The FBI raided Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in August 2022 to confiscate the classified documents, but Trump has maintained his innocence, saying that he is protected by the Presidential Records Act.
“It was just announced that Joe Biden’s Department of Injustice will bring zero charges against crooked Joe despite the fact he willfully retained, willfully retained, undisclosed droves of ultra-classified national security documents,” Trump told the NRA crowd, according to the <a href="https://apnews.com/video/united-states-government-south-carolina-joe-biden-u-s-republican-party-national-rifle-association-a46d2f38bfb144518d03f97ae58f111a" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Associated Press</a>. “Now, that’s not what I’ve been hearing and he’s not under the Presidential Records Act, which is a big thing. I am [under the Presidential Records Act]. It’s a protective act.”
The former president added that the case against him “is peanuts” compared to Biden’s handling of classified documents.

‘Selective Persecution’: Trump Says He Should ‘Not Be Charged’ After Biden Cleared By Special Counsel

'Selective Persecution': Trump Says He Should 'Not Be Charged' After Biden Cleared By Special Counsel

Special Counsel Robert Hur&#8217;s criminal investigation into President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/joe-biden" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Joe Biden</a> documented numerous instances of Biden having serious memory problems, a top issue of concern for voters heading into the 2024 presidential election.
The report said that even though Biden &#8220;willfully retained and disclosed classified materials after his vice presidency when he was a private citizen,&#8221; prosecutors concluded that &#8220;no criminal charges are warranted in this matter.&#8221;
Although the administration and Biden&#8217;s re-election campaign did not anticipate that Biden would be charged in the investigation, they were concerned that the report would be damaging to his re-election efforts.
The report&#8217;s summation of Biden&#8217;s mental fitness will likely be highly damaging to an electorate that overwhelmingly — <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/bidens-age-fitness-top-list-voters-concerns-poll-finds-rcna137212" target="_blank" rel="noopener">76%</a> — has concerns about the 81-year-old&#8217;s mental and physical health.
&#8220;Mr. Biden&#8217;s memory was significantly limited, both during his recorded interviews with the ghostwriter in 2017 [with whom he shared classified materials], and in his interview with our office in 2023,&#8221; the report said in its executive summary. &#8220;We have also considered that, at trial, Mr. Biden would likely present himself to a jury, as he did during our interview of him, as a sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory.&#8221;
Prosecutors said that based on the way that Biden presents, jurors will &#8220;want to identify reasonable doubt&#8221; and that it would be &#8220;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.&#8221;
Recordings from when Biden was interviewed by the ghostwriter in 2017 showed that even then, he was &#8220;struggling to remember events and straining at times to read and relay his own notebook entries,&#8221; the special counsel said, adding that even back then he was showing signs of &#8220;diminished faculties and faulty memory.&#8221;
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&#8220;In his interview with our office, Mr. Biden&#8217;s memory was worse,&#8221; Hur said. &#8220;He did not remember when he was vice president, forgetting on the first day of the interview when his term ended (&#8220;if it was 2013 &#8211; when did I stop being Vice President?&#8221;), and forgetting on the second day of the interview when his term began (&#8220;in 2009, am I still Vice President?&#8221;).&#8221;
&#8220;He did not remember, even within several years, when his son Beau died,&#8221; the report continued. &#8220;And his memory appeared hazy when describing the Afghanistan debate that was once so important to him. Among other things, he mistakenly said he &#8216;had a real difference&#8217; of opinion with General Karl Eikenberry, when, in fact, Eikenberry was an ally whom Mr. Biden cited approvingly in his Thanksgiving memo to President Obama.&#8221;

President Biden Urges Congress To Pass His National Security Supplemental Request

Special Counsel: Biden Has ‘Significantly Limited’ Memory, Didn’t Remember When He Was VP Or When Son Died

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The special counsel investigating President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/joe-biden" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Joe Biden&#8217;s</a> handling of classified material said in a report released on Thursday that no criminal charges were warranted against Biden, even though he willfully retained and disclosed classified materials after his time as vice president.
The investigation was led by Special Counsel Robert Hur, a Trump-era U.S. attorney who was appointed by Attorney General Merrick Garland.
&#8220;We conclude that no criminal charges are warranted in this matter,&#8221; the report&#8217;s executive summary began. &#8220;We would reach the same conclusion even if Department of Justice policy did not foreclose criminal charges against a sitting president.&#8221;
&#8220;Our investigation uncovered evidence that President Biden willfully retained and disclosed classified materials after his vice presidency when he was a private citizen,&#8221; the report continued. &#8220;These materials included (1) marked classified documents about military and foreign policy in Afghanistan, and (2) notebooks containing Mr. Biden&#8217;s handwritten entries about issues of national security and foreign policy implicating sensitive intelligence sources and methods. FBI agents recovered these materials from the garage, offices, and basement den in Mr. Biden&#8217;s Wilmington, Delaware home.&#8221;
The report said that marked classified documents about Afghanistan, which included classification markings up to the Top Secret/Sensitive Compartmented Information level, were found in Biden’s garage in Delaware. Notebooks containing classified information were discovered in the basement den of Biden’s Delaware home. Some of the classified documents that were found at the Biden Penn Center were intelligence assessments on Iran and were related to the Obama administration&#8217;s Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, otherwise known as the Iran nuclear deal. Classified documents were also found at the University of Delaware, where Biden was storing his records from his time in the U.S. Senate, that appear to be related to Europe and his time on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
The report argued that prosecutors did not believe the evidence was sufficient to charge to Biden because jurors would find reasonable doubt for potentially several reasons ranging from Biden’s “authority to keep classified documents in his home” to serious memory issues that the special counsel documented.
Prosecutors documented numerous instances in which Biden struggled to remember basic details about events, including during a 2017 recorded interview with a ghostwriter that he shared classified material with.
&#8220;Mr. Biden&#8217;s memory was significantly limited, both during his recorded interviews with the ghostwriter in 2017, and in his interview with our office in 2023,&#8221; the report said in its executive summary. &#8220;We have also considered that, at trial, Mr. Biden would likely present himself to a jury, as he did during our interview of him, as a sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory.&#8221;
This report has been updated to include additional information.

President Biden Delivers Remarks Emanuel AME Church In South Carolina As He Campaigns For Re-Election

Special Counsel: Biden ‘Willfully Retained, Disclosed Classified Materials,’ But ‘No Criminal Charges Warranted’

Special Counsel: Biden 'Willfully Retained, Disclosed Classified Materials,' But 'No Criminal Charges Warranted'

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President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/joe-biden" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Joe Biden</a> is reportedly not expected to be charged in connection to Special Counsel Robert Hur&#8217;s criminal investigation into his handling of classified material.
CNN <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/11/16/politics/special-counsel-hur-biden/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> that sources familiar with the matter informed the network that Hur&#8217;s team is preparing a final report about the results of the investigation, which started earlier this year after classified materials were found in an office Biden used at the Penn Biden Center in Washington, D.C. Other documents were later found in his home.
The report is expected to be &#8220;critical of Biden and his staff for the way they handled sensitive materials&#8221; and it&#8217;s expected to go &#8220;into significant detail about what the special counsel’s office found in its investigation,&#8221; the report said.
The classified documents that were discovered dated back to when Biden was vice president in the Obama administration and from his time as a U.S. Senator in Delaware.
Former President Donald Trump was hit with federal criminal charges for his handling of classified material after he left office. His supporters have accused the Department of Justice of political bias, accusations that are likely to be amplified if Biden is not charged.
One key difference between the cases was that Biden&#8217;s team quickly cooperated with federal investigators while Trump is accused of obstructing the federal criminal investigation into his handling of the documents. It&#8217;s worth noting that the only charges Trump was hit with in the investigation stem from the documents that were recovered after he was served with a subpoena — he was not charged with any crimes for documents that he turned back over to the U.S. government when it requested that he do so.
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However, just because Biden is not indicted doesn&#8217;t mean that he did not commit a crime.
The Department of Justice has a decades old <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-russia-indictment-explainer-idUSKCN1QF1D3/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">policy</a> that dates back to 1973, and which has been reaffirmed since then, that <a href="https://www.justice.gov/d9/olc/opinions/2000/10/31/op-olc-v024-p0222_0.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">says</a> a sitting president cannot be indicted because the DOJ &#8220;concluded that the indictment or criminal prosecution of a sitting President would impermissibly undermine the capacity of the executive branch to perform its constitutionally assigned functions.&#8221;

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