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FOX News takes note of the DOJ NOT charging creepy Joe for far worse offenses, illegally holding classified documents, w. no good explanation, while Trump was NOT illegally holding such documents WAS charged.
DOJ (Justice) announces investigation on creepy Joe is over, held classified documents ILLEGALLY, gave no sufficient explanation, BUT NO CHARGES
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GOP Calls to Invoke 25th Amendment After Special Counsel Casts Doubt on Biden’s Mental Acuity: ‘This Man Has the Nuclear Codes’
Link: https://www.breitbart.com/politics/...cial-council-casts-doubt-biden-mental-acuity/[vid at site link, above]
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Following Special Counsel Robert Hur’s report, which included stunning revelations of the deterioration of President Joe Biden’s mental state, Republican officials are calling to invoke the 25th Amendment. They state that “if ever there were a time to do so, now would be it,” and insist that if the president “is not competent to stand trial, then he is certainly not competent to lead the free world.”
While highlighting evidence of America’s oldest ever president “willfully” mishandling classified documents, Special Counsel Hur’s report details Biden’s significant cognitive decline — perhaps more politically damning than his handling of classified materials.
The report, released Thursday, concludes that prosecution is unlikely due to the challenges of proving willful intent beyond a reasonable doubt and Biden’s sympathetic public image.
In response, Republican members are urging the cabinet to invoke the 25th Amendment — which addresses presidential succession and disability procedures — or face impeachment, while questioning how Democrats in “good conscience” can tell Americans he is mentally competent enough to continue being Commander-in-Chief.
“For the safety of our nation, Joe Biden must resign,” declared Congresswoman Mary Miller (R-IL). “He could not remember basic facts about his life. He is not competent to remain as Commander-in-Chief & every day that he remains, he puts America at risk.”
“If he won’t resign, the Cabinet must invoke the 25th Amendment,” she added.
“If ever there were a time to invoke the 25th Amendment, wouldn’t that time be now?” asked Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT).
“The Special Counsel’s report exposing that Joe Biden’s mental decline is so severe that he can not stand trial means he is unfit for office,” wrote Rep. Marjory Tayloer Greene (R-GA).
“We must demand either the 25th amendment be invoked or impeachment, “ she added.
In a joint statement with House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, House Majority Whip Tom Emmer (R-MN), and House GOP Conference Chair Elise Stefanik (R-NY), House speaker Rep. Mike Johnson (R-LA) called the report’s findings “deeply disturbing,” noting that a “man too incapable of being held accountable for mishandling classified information is certainly unfit for the Oval Office.”
“Time for the 25th Amendment,” suggested Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO).
“Biden doesn’t remember his time as VP? But somehow he’s qualified to be President for another 4 years?” he questioned in another post. “This report labels Biden as a ‘well meaning, elderly man with a poor memory.’”
“Who will be the first patriotic Democrat in Congress to state the obvious and – for the good of the country – invoke the 25th Amendment,” he asked.
“Never been a stronger case for the 25th amendment than right now,” argued Rep. Mike Collins (R-GA).
“Joe Biden is not mentally competent to serve,” asserted Rep. Pat Fallon (R-TX). “Special Counsel Hur’s report should concern everyone–even every Democrat!”
“Biden can’t withstand the intellectual rigor of a trial because he’s an ‘elderly man with a poor memory’ but he’s OK to be the commander in chief with the world on fire?” asked Rep. Mike Waltz (R-FL).
“The President of the United States is not well…,” concluded Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY).
“The DOJ just admitted the President of the United States is too senile to prosecute. How is he running the country?” asked Congressman Greg Steube (R-FL).
“Truly astonishing,” declared Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX). “The US Department of Justice formally laying out evidence that the sitting President of the United States IS NOT COMPETENT TO STAND TRIAL.”
“He cannot remember when he was Vice President, but this man has the nuclear codes….,” he added.
“If Joe Biden is not competent to stand trial, then he is certainly not competent to lead the free world,” argued Rep. Andrew Clyde (R-GA).
“The Special Counsel’s assessment of President Biden’s physical and mental condition is something the American people will have to consider this Fall,” wrote Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC).
“Democrats and their stenographers in the mainstream media may try to look the other way and brush this under the rug, but it is so glaringly obvious to the American people,” wrote House GOP Conference Chair Elise Stefanik (R-NY). “This is truly a sad state for America with a President who is clearly unfit for office.”
“How can Biden and Democrats in good conscience tell the American people that he is mentally competent enough to be President?” asked Sen. Jim Banks (R-IN), adding that it is “Time for Joe to go to a retirement home and time for Trump to get back in the White House.”
“Today’s report from Robert Hur tells us two things: There’s a double standard of justice in this country. And Joe Biden isn’t fit for office,” wrote Sen. Jim Jordan (R-OH).
“It could not be more clear that @JoeBiden is mentally unfit to serve as President, let alone another 4 years in office,” wrote Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN). “He is doing a disservice to the American people and himself.”
“Biden’s DOJ is claiming that he is too mentally incompetent to stand trial. How can he be mentally competent to serve another four years as President?” asked Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-MO).
Congresswoman Claudia Tenney (R-NY) urged President Biden to “resign now.”
Hur’s assessment of Biden’s “significantly limited” memory played a part in his decision not to prosecute.
“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 states. “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.”
Hur’s report is riddled with examples and assessments that Biden’s mental faculties and memory have deteriorated, saying, “Mr. Biden’s memory also appeared to have significant limitations.”
Shockingly, the report says, he was unable to remember, “even within several years,” when his son Beau passed away, as well as when he was vice president.
The matter comes as concerns about the 81-year-old president’s age and mental fitness in an election year have intensified, with questions about his cognitive acuity already appearing in headlines after he had confused a world leader with a dead predecessor twice in the previous week.
A Yahoo News/YouGov poll released in May revealed that a whopping 82 percent of Americans possess concerns about Biden’s health and mental acuity.
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Rep. Byron Donalds Calls for Biden to be Prosecuted for Violating Espionage Act
February 22, 2024 9:09 pm by CWRLink: https://citizenwatchreport.com/rep-...to-be-prosecuted-for-violating-espionage-act/
[see numerous vids at site link, above]
BREAKING: Rep. Byron Donalds calls for Biden to be prosecuted, accusing the president of violating the Espionage Act.
“You have a Department of Justice that is picking and choosing who they’re going to prosecute and when. Joe Biden has violated the Espionage Act. He violated it as a United States senator. He violated it as a vice president of the United States, and he should be prosecuted for violating the Espionage Act.”
GOP Rep. Donalds accuses Biden of violating the Espionage Act, says he should be prosecuted
“You have an FBI that has been spying on the American people against federal law,” Donalds said at the annual CPAC event, just outside of Washington, D.C., in suburban Maryland.
“You have a Department of Justice that is picking and choosing who they’re going to prosecute and when. Joe Biden has violated the Espionage Act. He violated it as a United States senator. He violated it as a vice president of the United States, and he should be prosecuted for violating the Espionage Act.”
See also 2007 Biden saying sanctuary cities shouldn’t exist
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Biden is the worst president this country has ever seen: Rep Byron Donalds
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Donalds: Border security is an American position
“Decide, Joe Biden. Which country matters more to you? The border of the United States or the border of Ukraine?”
See also What is Joe Biden saying in this speech?
Florida Rep. Byron Donalds calls out the failures of the Biden administration at CPAC
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Dink shyster says Trump's sweeping victories on "Super Tuesday" primaries reflect resentment/reaction against the selective prosecutions by corrupt creepy Joe admin and DOJ against Trump, the voters/people NOT impressed
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When one stops to consider, creepy Joe really looks horrible compared to Trump--EVEN THOUGH Trump has been sooo beset by fake indictments, and the usual Trump derangement syndrome, suckers--good commentary by FOX News/Watters
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Hunter Biden helped hire aides who mishandled Joe’s classified documents
By Social Links forPaul SperryPublished March 4, 2024, 7:09 p.m. ET
Link: https://nypost.com/2024/03/04/us-ne...des-who-mishandled-joes-classified-documents/
[vid at site link, above]
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“I take responsibility for not having seen exactly what my staff was doing,” the president maintained.
Like Biden, these staffers have avoided any criminal charges. Who are they?
Without identifying them by name, special counsel Robert Hur narrowed the suspects to two former aides: “Executive Assistant” and “Staff Assistant 3.”
He said they gathered up more than 180 classified records totaling more than 600 pages and packed them into 15 boxes as Biden left the White House in January 2017.
Gatekeepers
Documents confirm that the staffers in question are Kathy S. Chung, who worked with Hunter Biden at the Commerce Department, and Anne Marie Muldoon, nee Person, who worked for him at Rosemont Seneca Partners, a key pass-through for foreign wire payments to Hunter Biden.
Chung and Muldoon were the two most important people in Joe Biden’s office suite. They were the gatekeepers who controlled the front office that adjoined his West Wing office, and they stored his classified papers in file cabinets and in his safe.
Biden trusted them implicitly since they came to him on the recommendation of his son Hunter.
In effect, it was Hunter who placed them in their sensitive posts inside the White House, where they had unfettered access to “the most highly classified, sensitive, and compartmented materials recovered during our investigation,” Hur noted in his report.
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And they continued to communicate with Hunter throughout their tenure in his father’s office, assisting his foreign business schemes, according to emails obtained from his abandoned laptop and from the National Archives.
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Hunter got his old Commerce colleague Chung her White House job in 2012, the year before Hunter traveled with the vice president on Air Force Two to Beijing to seal a lucrative investment deal with the Chinese. Chung booked the trip, records show.The executive assistant post opened up in his father’s office in May 2012, and Hunter proposed his old chum take it.
He described the job as replacing the “primary gatekeeper for the VP [and the] conduit everyone goes through to get to [Joe Biden].” In addition, she’d handle “all personal stuff” for the vice president, according to Hunter’s email to Chung.
That meant, as it turned out, acting as the custodian of all of Biden’s White House records, including classified material. Chung was thrilled to be considered for the position, which required Top Secret security clearance — “Thanks for calling and thinking of me,” she emailed Hunter — and agreed to an interview.
“I just met with your Dad again and he officially offered me the job,” she gushed in a June 13, 2012, email to Hunter. “I cannot thank you enough for thinking about me and walking me thru this.”
Then in mid-2014, Hunter recommended Muldoon for the job of Chung’s assistant. At the time, she was working as Hunter’s aide at Rosemont Seneca. Her husband, Mike Muldoon, had also worked for Hunter at Rosemont Seneca years earlier.
Family business
Records show Chung and Muldoon still arranged overseas trips for Hunter Biden and his Rosemont partners while working in VP Biden’s office. They sent and received hundreds of emails with Hunter and Rosemont.Between July 2012 (when Chung came aboard) and April 2015, the latest data available, Rosemont Seneca shows up in a whopping 921 emails generated from the vice president’s office, according to a recent partial release of Vice President Biden’s records by the National Archives concerning “Hunter Biden, James Biden and their foreign business dealings.”
The records reveal that, among other things, Chung and Muldoon fielded requests from Hunter for signed photos of Joe Biden, letters from the vice president for his associates and tickets to White House events, including several state dinners and luncheons with foreign leaders.
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In September 2015, for example, Chung emailed Hunter to invite him to a lunch with Chinese President Xi Jinping hosted by Biden.
In August 2016, according to Secret Service visitor logs, Muldoon escorted into the West Wing James Bulger — nephew of the notorious Irish mobster Whitey Bulger — after Bulger and Hunter formed BHR Partners, an investment fund controlled by the state-owned Bank of China.
A month after Chung oversaw the removal of the secret vice presidential papers in 2017, Hunter Biden attempted to poach her to work for him directly.
“Come work with me,” he wrote, “so that I can make everybody money.”
At the time, Hunter was courting Chinese businessmen who ended up paying him and other Biden family members $6 million for unspecified services.
Though Chung said she was interested in Hunter’s offer, she ultimately stayed on as Joe Biden’s assistant at his new digs at the Penn Biden Center in DC, where Hunter had VIP access.
It was there that Biden’s classified docs were first “discovered” by his lawyers, who were concerned about his own liability after the Justice Department raided former President Donald Trump’s home in Florida and seized boxes of classified papers.
Cozy relationship
Chung told Hur she never noticed any classified papers among the records she packed and unpacked, before filing them in unlocked cabinets and closets in Biden’s unlocked office, according to Hur.Just weeks before she and Muldoon boxed up Biden’s records, however, they received a Jan. 3, 2017, email from the National Security Council warning them not to pack anything classified and that “only unclassified personal records” could be removed from the White House at the end of the administration, noted Hur, who ultimately punted on indicting either of them, even for gross negligence.
A lawyer for Chung — who now serves as a top aide to Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin — did not respond to requests for comment. Attempts to reach Muldoon were unsuccessful.
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The issue of Hunter Biden’s cozy relationship with these aides could break into the open during Hur’s March 12 testimony on the Hill. Sources say lawmakers will press him on whether he investigated Hunter or his uncle Jim to see if either of them gained access to the stolen White House docs.
Last week, the House Oversight Committee, as part of its joint impeachment inquiry, subpoenaed the attorney general for Hur’s investigative files, including recovered classified documents about Ukraine and China.
In a statement, the panel said it is “concerned that President Biden may have retained sensitive documents related to specific countries involving his family’s foreign business dealings.”
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Robert Hur admits 'forgetful' Biden read ALOUD classified files to ghost writer of his $8m book - who then tried to 'DESTROY the evidence': Special Counsel confirms president wanted to keep documents for 'pride and money'
- Hur left the Justice Department on Monday and is testifying as a private citizen, a DOJ spokesperson confirmed to DailyMail.com
- Hur shockingly revealed that Biden's ghost writer tried to hide evidence after he was named special counsel in the case
- 'I did not share classified information,' Biden insisted. 'Guarantee you, I did not.'
- READ MORE: Biden forgot the year Beau died, when Trump was elected and said 'I don't recall', 'I don't remember' and 'I have no goddam idea' over 100 TIMES
PUBLISHED: 09:58 EDT, 12 March 2024 | UPDATED: 17:13 EDT, 12 March 2024
Link: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...biden-classified-documents-capitol-hill.html/
[see lots of vids at site link, above]
Former special counsel Robert Hur revealed in Capitol Hill testimony that Biden 'willfully' retained classified materials as a private citizen and gave them to Mark Zwonitzer - the ghost writer of his $8 million book - who later tried to destroy them.
Hur arrived on Capitol Hill to offer insight into his devastating classified documents report that painted Biden as 'elderly' and 'forgetful' and with 'diminished faculties,' but did not recommend charges for the president.
He pushed back on Democrats who claimed his report cleared Biden of any wrongdoing, saying it 'did not exonerate' the president.
Biden, 81, does not 'need' a cognitive test, WhiteHouse says
'We identified evidence that the President willfully retained classified materials after the end of his vice presidency, when he was a private citizen,' Hur said during the high-stakes hearing.
Hur said that included in the evidence was a recorded conversation between Biden and his ghost writer Zwonitzer in which the president stated that he had just 'found all the classified stuff downstairs.'
After leaving the vice presidency, Biden and now-First Lady Jill signed a multi-book deal with Flatiron Books valued at $8 million, according to Publishers Weekly.
The first book, 'Promise Me, Dad,' a memoir that centers on when his son Beau died and he decided not to run for president in 2015, briefly topped the best sellers list.
Hur shockingly revealed that the ghost writer tried to hide evidence after he was named special counsel in the case.
'What did that ghostwriter do with the information Joe Biden shared with him on his laptop, what did he do after you were named special counsel?' House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan asked the former special counsel.
'He slid those files into the recycle bin on his computer,' Hur said.
Hur recites the Pledge of Allegiance before testifying during a House Judiciary Committee hearing
Joe Biden's ghostwriter Mark Zwonitzer tried to destroy evidence Biden had given him classified documents
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He 'tried to destroy the evidence, didn't he?' asked Jordan.
'Correct,' said Hur.
Judiciary Chair Jim Jordan noted Biden got $8 million for his book deal and argued Biden knowingly handed over those documents to the writer.
'Pride and money is why he knowingly violated the rules,' Jordan said of Biden. 'The oldest motives in the book, pride and money. Do you agree with that?'
'That language does appear in the report and we did identify evidence supporting those assessments,' Hur said back.
Biden said in his interview with Hur that he made more from the book sale than he ever made in his life.
'I ended up making more money on the sale of that book than I ever made in my whole life,' Biden said. 'I was able to give a million dollars away to charity. I've always wanted to do that.'
Biden, in a fiery news conference on February 8 after Hur's bombshell report was published, swore he had not shared classified documents.
'I did not share classified information,' Biden insisted. 'Guarantee you, I did not.' He added he wasn’t aware how the boxes containing classified documents ended up in his garage.
Hur's description of the president as 'well-meaning,' 'elderly' and having a 'poor memory' drew condemnation from Democrats - who say he didn't need to muse on the president's age.
He explained his decision to make the assessment in the hearing: 'I knew that for my position to be credible. I could not simply announce that there would be no charges, I needed to explain why. I needed to show my work.'
Hur left the Justice Department on Monday and is testifying as a private citizen, a DOJ spokesperson confirmed to DailyMail.com.
The former special counsel said he could not make a decision on whether Biden's retaining of classified documents was 'willful' without considering his state of mind.
'My assessment relevant to the president's memory was necessary, accurate and fair.'
'I did not sanitize my assessment nor did I disparage the president unfairly,' said Hur.
'I had to explain why different facts require different outcomes,' he added, referring to Trump being charged for mishandling documents and Biden avoiding charges.
Biden says he did not share classified information with ghost writer
Hur's report had carefully explained how the criminal case accusing Trump of hoarding classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago resort presents far more serious allegations.
Both Republicans and Democrats put Hur in the hot seat. Republicans demanded to know why he chose not to prosecute the president. Democrats attacked him for calling into question Biden's memory.
Rep. Hank Johnson, D-Ga., accused Hur, a registered Republican, of angling for a spot in a future Trump administration by drawing conclusions in his report.
'Partisan politics had no place whatsoever in my work,' Hur insisted.
Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., said to Hur that he must've known including an assessment of Biden's memory in his report would 'create a political firestorm.'
Hur said that without the assessment, the report would be 'incomplete and improper.'
Hur confirmed the White House counsel had written him a letter requesting he change language in the report referring to Biden's 'poor memory.'
'They contested or asserted certain language in the report was inconsistent with DOJ policy,' Hur revealed.
Hur was appointed special counsel by Attorney General Merrick Garland in January 2022 to investigate the president's handling of classified files based on a range of areas including Afghanistan.
'I did not sanitize my assessment nor did I disparage the president unfairly,' said Hur. 'I had to explain why different facts require different outcomes'
Robert Hur says President Biden 'willfully' kept classified documents
Robert Hur says 'assessment about president's memory was accurate'
Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) (L) and Ranking Member Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-NY) deliver opening statements. Nadler is flanked by Trump's classified documents
On his way into the hearing, top Judiciary Democrat Rep. Jerry Nadler of New York called Hur a 'Republican hit man.'
'The one thing I do not understand is why there's a 100 percent pattern of Democratic attorneys general hiring Republican special counsels and Republican attorneys general hiring Republican special counsels.'
And during the hearing, Nadler went on the offense, contrasting former President Donald Trump's handling of classified documents with that of Trump's.
The New York Democrat said Trump proved 'fundamentally incapable of taking advantage of even one of the many, many chances to avoid this outcome' by refusing to hand over documents.
He then played clips of Trump confusing world leaders' names, just as Biden often does.
He showed Trump confusing Viktor Orban with the president of Turkey, confusing Speaker Nancy Pelosi with Ambassador Nikki Haley and more.
'This is a man who should think twice before accusing someone else of cognitive decline,' Nadler said.
Rep. Tom McClintock, R-Calif., claimed Hur had established a 'new doctrine' for handling classified documents, and should have let a jury decide if Biden was too elderly and well-meaning to be convicted.
He warned Hur's decision makes a 'sick mockery' of the rule of law.
'Justice is depicted as blindfolded for this very reason. It doesn't matter who comes before all are treated equally, is destroy this foundation. And the rule of law becomes a sick mockery, becomes a weapon to wield against political rivals and a tool of despotism. And I am desperately afraid that this decision of the Department of Justice is now crossed a very bright line.'
Rep. Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash., said during her line of questioning 'You exonerated [Biden.]'
'I did not exonerate him,' Hur cut in. 'It's my time, thank you,' said Jayapal.
'In this case, did you reach conclusion that [Biden was outright innocent?' asked Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif.
'That conclusion is not reflected in my report, sir.'
At one point, Rep. Will Kiley, R-Calif., suggested to Hur that a 'reasonable juror' could have voted to convict Biden based on the facts Hur had put forth.
'Correct,' said Hur.
After a year of silence he released the explosive report that drew questions about his decision not to prosecute the president, Biden's cognitive fitness for office and how the commander-in-chief 'willfully' retained the documents.
In interviews with investigators, Biden became muddled about the dates he was vice president and could not even remember the year in which his son Beau died, according to the transcript reviewed by DailyMail.com.
Biden forgot the year Beau died, when Trump was elected and said 'I don't recall', 'I don't remember' and 'I have no goddamn idea' more than 100 times while cracking jokes and making car noises with the investigators.
And it said his cavalier attitude to classified documents, such as his habit of reading sensitive files to a ghostwriter, posed a significant national security risk.
One of the reasons they decided not to press charges was because '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.'
Hur said during testimony that he described Biden this way because of his 'inability to recall certain things' and that he had to be prompted by his lawyers to recall certain dates.
According to transcripts of Hur's interviews with Biden on October 8 and October 9, 2023, Biden's lawyer had to tell him what year his son Beau died of brain cancer and the president joked about the special counsel finding pictures of his wife Jill in a swimsuit.
I just hope you didn’t find any risqué pictures of my wife in a bathing suit. Which you probably did. She’s beautiful,' said Biden.
'What month did Beau die?' Biden mused at one point, adding, 'Oh God, May 30th.'
A White House lawyer then chimed in with the year, 2015.
'Was it 2015 he died?' Biden asked.
Former special counsel Robert Hur has arrived on Capitol Hill to deliver high-stakes testimony
Special Counsel Robert Hur arrives at Capitol Hill for his testimony
Code Pink protesters demanding a ceasefire in Gaza with vests saying 'AIPAC supports genocide' interrupt hearing
An image from the Biden classified documents report showing a damaged box where classified documents were found in the garage of President Biden in 2022
After a year of silence he released the explosive report that drew questions about his decision not to prosecute the president, Biden's cognitive fitness for office and how the commander-in-chief 'wilfully' retained the documents
Hur is set to double down on his criticism of Biden's memory, according to the opening statement obtained by DailyMail.com
Hur's report, summarizing his probe of Biden's mishandling of classified documents, contains a multitude of examples of Biden's 'hazy' memory, including one point where Biden appeared to forget when his son Beau died.
Hur insisted that Biden was not fit for prosecution over his mishandling of documents because he was a 'well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory.'
The special counsel noted Biden had 'diminished faculties' and at points 'did not remember when he was vice president.'
The box circled in the foreground contained documents about Afghanistan. The picture was taken in December 2022 in Biden's garage, with other household items
President Joe Biden will not be criminally charged with stashing classified documents in his garage and private office
Republicans jumped on the material, saying it proves Biden isn't fit to run the country.
One particularly damaging passage that Hur included said: 'In his interview with our office, Mr. Biden's memory was worse. He did not remember when he was vice president, forgetting on the first day of the interview when his term ended ('if it was 2013 - when did I stop being Vice President?'), and forgetting on the second day of the interview when his term began ('in 2009, am I still Vice President?'),' according to the report.
'He did not remember, even within several years, when his son Beau died. And his memory appeared hazy when describing the Afghanistan debate that was once so important to him.'
Biden erupted at that passage in a defiant press conference where he said his memory is 'fine.'
The report is crammed with pictures of documents recovered from Biden's home or an office he used when he was vice president
The report details lapses in Biden's memory, both in conversations with his ghostwriter and with investigators. The conclusion is that jurors may have though he made an innocent mistake
Biden fires back at DOJ report stating he can't remember son's death
'There's even reference that I don't remember when my son died. How in the hell dare he raise that? I don't need anyone, I don't need anyone, to remind me of when he passed away,' the president told reporters.
'Frankly, when I was asked the question, I thought to myself, wasn't any of their damned business.'
He also said reports about his 'willful' retention of documents were 'misleading.'
At one point he yelled: 'I did not share classified information! I did not!'
Biden then took a question about the humanitarian situation in Gaza.
In doing so he botched the identification of a world leader, calling Egypt's Abdel Fattah El-Sisi the President of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador.
He said: 'I think as you know initially, the president of Mexico, El-Sisi, did not want to open up the gate to humanitarian material to get in. I talked to him. I convinced him to open the gate.'
The president went on to blame his staff for sensitive documents from his time as vice president being found at his home, garage and office.
He blamed subordinates for some of the decisions that got him in trouble and precipitated the year-long probe that is already providing fodder for President Donald Trump's campaign.
'I take responsibility for not having seen exactly what my staff was doing,' he said.