Biden’s Claims About Special Counsel Report on Classified Documents Investigation [Thursday night]
- He falsely said none of the documents found in his possession was highly classified.
- Biden claimed the special counsel “did not say” that Biden had shared secret information with the ghostwriter of his book. The report did say that.
Biden Had ‘Top Secret’ Documents
Biden said none of the documents found in his possession was highly classified, which is false.
Biden’s Ghostwriter Discussions
Biden...falsely claimed that he “did not share classified information” with Zwonitzer, the ghostwriter of his 2017 book...“Guarantee you, I did not,” Biden said.
When a reporter challenged his statement, pointing out what the report says on the topic, Biden said the special counsel “did not say” that Biden had shared secret information. But Biden is wrong.
Biden’s Memory
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The report said Biden’s recorded conversations with Zwonitzer “are often painfully slow, with Mr. Biden struggling to remember events and straining at times to read and relay his own notebook entries.”
[I haven't read the report fully and didn't ready read that. "Straining to read...his own notebook" paints a fuller picture of the president's mental state. And the conversation with Zwonitzer was in 2017.]
“In his interview with our office, Mr. Biden’s memory was worse,” the report states. “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?’). He did not remember, even within several years, when his son Beau died. ...
The White House will never release the tapes of these interviews because they will show the president more infirm than the summaries and characterizations in Hur's reports do. In my opinion Joe Biden's mental abilities are too compromised to continue being president.
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