Special Counsel Robert Hur testified before the House Judiciary Committee on Tuesday for more than four hours, about his probe of Joe Biden’s retention of classified national security information after leaving office as vice president in 2017.
Things that became abundantly clear during his testimony:
Joe Biden showed willful intent with withholding classified documents in several unsecure locations.
Joe Biden had a ghost writer, Mark Zwonitzer, present with him that did not have a security clearance.
Joe Biden shared national security secrets with Mark Zwonitzer, who later tried to destroy the evidence.
Robert Hur agreed that he identified evidence that “pride and money” were “strong” motivating factors for Biden to retain classified records, as the former vice president sought to keep materials to use for a memoir he wrote that brought him $8 million.
Special counsel Robert Hur confirmed on Tuesday that President Joe Biden was previously aware he was in possession of classified documents taken from his time in the Obama administration years before he turned them over in late 2022.
Testifying on Capitol Hill Tuesday, a moment of truth was captured when Hur and Congressman Tom McClintock (R-CA) discussed Biden’s admission to a ghostwriter that he came upon boxes of classified materials during a previous search of his basement. The statement would directly contradict President Biden’s earlier denial that he shared unauthorized information with the ghostwriter.
“So you have audio recording from his ghostwriter where the president acknowledges that the information he has is classified and he’s sharing it with this ghostwriter?” McClintock asked.
“We have an audio recording capturing a statement from Mr. Biden saying to his ghostwriter in February of 2017, ‘I just found all the classified stuff downstairs.’”
……Hur’s appearance came after tremendous pressure by Democrats to explain detailed passages within his report describing President Biden’s state of mind while possessing the documents, concluding he is a “well-meaning, elderly old man with a poor memory” who would most likely not be convicted by a jury. The production of evidence by Hur may not reignite a national discussion over President Biden’s age, a severe liability for him among general election voters.
BOOM:
Matt Gaetz: “You find in your report that the elements of a federal criminal violation are met, but then you apply this senile cooperator theory that because Joe Biden cooperated and the elevator didn’t go to the top floor, you don’t think you’d get a conviction.”
Hur emphasized that he did not exonerate Biden and agreed that a ‘reasonable juror’ could have voted to convict Biden based on the facts he put forth.
According to Robert Hur, In 2017, Joe Biden read aloud classified passages about meetings in the Situation Room to his ghostwriter “verbatim on at least three occasions” – and Biden still wasn’t charged.
Biden “willfully retained his classified notebooks… stored them in his house and he knew he was not allowed to do so.”
“We also considered whether Mr. Biden willfully disclosed national defense information to his ghostwriter by reading aloud certain classified notebook passages to the ghostwriter nearly verbatim on at least three occasions,” the report read.
……“Mr. Biden should have known that by reading his unfiltered notes about classified meetings in the Situation Room, he risked sharing classified information with his ghostwriter. But the evidence does not show that when Mr. Biden shared the specific passages with his ghostwriter, Mr. Biden knew the passages were classified and intended to share classified information.
Biden also shared classified national defense information with Hunter.
He knew exactly what he was doing when he absconded with documents he wasn’t authorized to possess as a Senator and Vice President. He transported boxes of classified documents from the White House to UPenn, Boston, Chinatown, and his garage. Some of those documents contained Top Secret information.
Biden hid them from everyone, including the National Archives, since 2017.
Not only did he refuse to cooperate, but he had his lawyers trying to bury the evidence before the midterms. That is obstruction and tampering with evidence.
The DOJ knew about Biden’s feckless handling of classified material, but they and the FBI agreed to cover it up.
Merrick Garland’s minions opted against having FBI agents oversee a search for classified documents at his private homes, and ultimately left the matter to Biden’s own attorneys, who have NO security clearances.
By the way: Hunter Biden had access to documents at Joe’s house and some of them were used as leverage in a deal with Ukraine.
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