![]() ![]() When White House officials saw the final version on Thursday it was all still there: the repeated references to Biden’s “hazy,” “significantly limited,” and “poor” memory, and the comments about Biden’s “totally irresponsible” actions.īut for Biden, the cheapest shot - and the one that most infuriated him - was this line: “He did not remember, even within several years, when his son BEAU died.” Hur was apparently unmoved by the Biden legal team’s arguments. “Hur did not indicate whether he would make any changes,” said a person familiar with the process. White House officials were in the dark all week about what Hur would do, knowing the worst of what could be in the document but hoping that their back-channel appeal would force some edits. ![]() Such comments have no place in a Department of Justice report, particularly one that in the first paragraph announces that no criminal charges are ‘warranted’ and that ‘the evidence does not establish Mr. Hur’s report, they wrote, “uses highly prejudicial language to describe a commonplace occurrence among witnesses: a lack of recall of years-old events. Biden's apparent lapses and failures in February and April will likely appear consistent with the diminished faculties and faulty memory he showed in Zwonitzer's interview recordings and in our interview of him.”īiden’s lawyers pounced on the editorializing, saying the descriptions were not “accurate or appropriate.” 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?’).” ![]() Biden struggling to remember events and straining at times to read and relay his own notebook entries. Biden's recorded conversations with ZWONITZER from 2017 are often painfully slow, with Mr. Biden's memory also appeared to have significant limitations … Mr. Biden's memory was significantly limited, both during his recorded interviews with the ghostwriter in 2017, and in his interview with our office in 2023.” 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 wrote in the most quoted line of the document. “We have also considered that, at trial, Mr. (Former Attorney General ERIC HOLDER seems to agree.)īut the real peril in the report was the one highlighted by Biden’s lawyers in two pages of forceful language that laid out their shock and indignation at Hur’s repeated criticisms of Biden’s memory - an issue that, given voters concerns about the president’s age, is central to the 2024 election but seemed gratuitous in Hur’s report. Why, they demanded, had Hur called Biden “totally irresponsible,” the same words Biden used to criticize Trump’s retention of classified documents, when in other parts of the report they took pains to note the differences between the two cases? Biden's lawyers invoked the IG’s Comey report in arguing that “totally irresponsible” was the new “extremely careless.” They said Hur’s “criticism of an uncharged party violates” DOJ protocols. Like Comey, the Biden official argued, Hur put his “thumb on the scale during an election season.”īiden’s lawyers raised the C-word with Hur even before the report became public. Then he delivered the actual news: “no reasonable prosecutor would bring such a case.” In a scathing report, the DOJ’s inspector general later harshly criticized Comey for his actions. In July 2016, FBI Director JAMES COMEY ripped into HILLARY CLINTON for being “extremely careless” with classified material and noted that there was “evidence of potential violations” of the law. That was the assessment of a top Biden campaign official watching special counsel ROBERT HUR’s report explode yesterday. THE STORY THAT BIGFOOTED THE COURT CASE - “It felt like a Comey moment for me.” President Joe Biden speaks in the Diplomatic Reception Room of the White House, Thursday, Feb. ![]()
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