President Joe Biden was full of fury as he pushed back on a report from Special Counsel Robert Hur about his handling of classified documents.
Hur declined to charge the president, but offered several shocking claims in his report about the president’s memory, including that he did not remember “even within several years, when his son Beau died.”
Hours after that report was released, Biden decided to come out to deliver a disastrous press conference with the aim of defending his memory and mental state.
“There is even reference that I don’t remember when my son died. How in the hell dare he raise that?” Biden asked with a fury.
He added, “Frankly, when I was asked the question I thought to myself, it wasn’t any of their damn business.”
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WATCH: A week ago, Joe Biden blasted Special Counsel Robert Hur: "There is even reference that I don't remember when my son died. 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.
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But there’s just one problem with Biden’s story, according to NBC News.
It was not Hur who brought up Beau Biden during the interview, it was the president.
Citing “two people familiar with Hur’s five-hour interview with the president,” NBC News reports, “Biden raised his son’s death after being asked about his workflow at a Virginia rental home from 2016 to 2018, the sources said, when a ghost writer was helping him write a memoir about losing Beau to brain cancer in 2015.”
“Biden began trying to recall that period by discussing what else was happening in his life, and it was at that point in the interview that he appeared confused about when Beau died, the sources said. Biden got the date — May 30 — correct, but not the year,” it added. “Sources familiar with Biden’s view of the interview say Hur induced the president to bring up his son by asking a series of personal questions related to Beau. They included questions about Biden’s memoir, ‘Promise Me, Dad,’ in which he writes about his son’s battle with cancer and death in 2015.”
The outlet noted Hur was torched by several high profile Democrats such as former Attorney General Eric Holder and First Lady Jill Biden for allegedly asking about Beau Biden’s death.
But it turns out, as has become something of a theme, the president did the damage himself by bringing up a subject to make a point and then forgetting key details.
So did Biden forget he was the one who brought up Beau during his press conference designed to prove his memory is just great? Or is this man, who has insisted the Justice Department is not biased or politicized and speaks about the need to uphold the integrity of the justice system, simply taking cheap shots at Hur because he knows his memory is bad and the report was really quite awful for him?
Perhaps this is why the White House will not commit to releasing transcripts from the interview. Because they are afraid it will either corroborate Hur’s claims, or show Biden to be a massive hypocrite who only cares about protecting the image of the Justice Department when it is prosecuting “the former guy” — or both.
