{"id":54105,"date":"2024-03-13T13:34:40","date_gmt":"2024-03-13T17:34:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=54105"},"modified":"2024-03-14T10:15:06","modified_gmt":"2024-03-14T14:15:06","slug":"what-did-we-learn-from-the-hearing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=54105","title":{"rendered":"What Did We Learn From The Hearing?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Tuesday, <a href=\"https:\/\/justthenews.com\/accountability\/political-ethics\/five-biggest-takeaways-special-counsels-testimony-biden-classified\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Just the News<\/a> posted an article about the testimony of Special Counsel Robert Hur before the House Judiciary Committee.<\/p>\n<p>The article lists the seven biggest takeaways from that testimony:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>1. President Biden \u201cwillfully\u201d retained classified documents<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>2. Hur indicated Biden was lying when he claimed in news conference he did not share classified information<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>3. President Biden\u2019s motives for retaining classified documents were explored, including $8 million in book proceeds<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>4. Hur insisted that his report did not \u201cexonerate\u201d Biden<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>5. The Intelligence Community is completing a damage assessment on Biden\u2019s handling of classified documents<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>6. Prosecutors believed there was an effort to destroy evidence<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>7.) Biden displayed a hazy memory, confusion during his two-day interview with Hur&#8217;s team<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The article concludes:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>In one line of questioning about Biden\u2019s time after he left the vice presidency in early 2017, he struggled to remember the year of important events, like Donald Trump\u2019s election in 2016 and the death of his son, Beau Biden, from brain cancer in 2015.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>\u201cAnd so what was happening, though \u2013 what month did Beau die? Oh God, May 30,&#8221; Biden said, according to the transcript reviewed by\u00a0<em>Just the News<\/em>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>\u201c2015,\u201d a White House Counsel\u2019s office attorney interjected.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>\u201cWas it 2015 he had died?\u201d Biden asked.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>The transcript contradicts statements President Biden made after Hur\u2019s report was released last month. The president was publicly indignant and criticized Hur for allegedly raising the topic.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>\u201cHow in the hell dare he raise that,\u201d Biden\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2024\/mar\/12\/biden-interview-transcripts-robert-hur\">said to reporters<\/a>, speaking about Hur. \u201cFrankly, when I was asked the question, I thought to myself it wasn\u2019t any of their damn business.\u201d Yet, the transcript shows it was Biden who first mentioned his son&#8217;s death.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>After confirming the date of his son\u2019s death with the lawyers, Biden still appeared to be confused about the timeline of his post-vice presidential private life.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Biden said: \u201cAnd what&#8217;s happened in the meantime is that Trump gets elected in November of 2017?&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Two individuals corrected him, saying it was in \u201c2016,\u201d according to the transcript.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>\u201c2016. Alright, so \u2013 why do I have 2017 here?&#8221; Biden asked.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Even young people confuse dates. However, the really sleazy move was to blame Hur for bringing up Beau Biden&#8217;s death. President Biden brings that up anytime he feels it is useful to him&#8211;he even brought it up in the State of the Union address.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Tuesday, Just the News posted an article about the testimony of Special Counsel Robert Hur before the House Judiciary Committee. The article lists the seven biggest takeaways from that testimony: 1. President Biden \u201cwillfully\u201d retained classified documents 2. Hur &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=54105\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[16159,3240,11593,12498,13372,16170,11559],"class_list":["post-54105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-classified-documents","tag-classified-information","tag-house-judiciary-committee","tag-just-the-news","tag-president-biden","tag-robert-hur","tag-special-counsel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54105"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54118,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54105\/revisions\/54118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}