Is your memory still that hazy, Joe? Biden brought in special counsel Robert Hur for ‘daring’ to bring up his late son Beau even though HE asked
- Biden ripped the special counsel for raising his son
- Hur’s report said Biden could not remember when son died “even within a few years.”
- Sources say Biden brought it up when he tried to mention events after 2015
It was President Joe Biden who brought up the time of his son Beau’s death and flubbed the year during his interview with Special Counsel Robert Hur, according to a new report following White House anger over the ‘gratuitous’ detail .
Hur included the discussion of Beau’s death in his 345-page report as one of many examples of Biden’s “hazy” memory, inviting a fiery response from the president during his angry press conference last Thursday.
“How on earth does he dare bring that up?” Biden furious at the White House. “Honestly, when I was asked the question, I thought to myself, it was none of their damn business.”
Two people familiar with Hur’s five-hour interview with Biden on Oct. 8 and 9 say it was Biden who brought up Beau’s death. NBC reported.
Prosecutors bombarded Biden with questions about a Virginia home he rented from 2016 to 2018 that was one of several facilities where classified information came to light.
Biden was outraged by special counsel Robert Hur’s accusation that the Scranton resident did not know when his son Beau died. According to a new report, it’s Biden who brought up the year of Beau’s death when searching for information about the time he had notebooks in a rented house in Virginia
It was one of the facilities where Biden stored secret notebooks in “unsecured and unauthorized areas.” He also used the house to meet with his ghostwriter while working on his memoir, Promise Me Dad, which chronicles the devastating loss of his son to brain cancer in 2015.
Investigators wanted to know more about a recording they received of Biden telling the writer that he had found “secret items” in the house.
Biden apparently began reaching for key markers from that period as he tried to recall the information, “and it was at that point in the interview that he seemed confused about when Beau had died,” the report said, noting that he got the date of Beau’s death, May 30, correct.
First lady Jill Biden also denounced the information as a misuse of “our son’s death to score political points.” The White House destroyed “gratuitous” information in the report.
The exact nature of how the conversation played out is memorialized in a transcript and recordings of Biden’s interview, which he noted came as the White House rushed to respond to the Oct. 7 Hamas attack on Israel.
Rubert Hur report points to Biden’s ‘fuzzy’ memory, saying he did not correctly remember the year of his son Beau’s death
The box circled in the foreground contained documents about Afghanistan. The photo was taken in Biden’s garage in December 2022, along with other household items
Chairmen of the Republican committee of the House of Representatives are demanding access to the information. The White House said its counsel’s office would “review” the request. Republicans in the House of Representatives also want to call on Hur to testify, which could set off weeks of debate over the report even as Biden seeks reelection while contending with polls showing widespread voter concern about his age.
The report, which laid out the reasons why Biden should not be charged and called him an “older” man with impaired memory, repeatedly references the Virginia estate.
“There is evidence that while researching and writing the book, Mr. Biden found marked classified documents in the basement of his Virginia rental home and told his ghostwriter about them during an audio-recorded conversation. And while the published book is not known to contain classified information, in writing the book in unsafe locations, Mr. Biden used notebooks containing notes he made during his vice presidency about classified meetings and information,” the report said.