A CNN reporter called out President Joe Biden on Friday for spreading false claims about the findings of Special Counsel Robert Hur’s report.
Hur declined to pursue criminal charges against Biden despite alleging him having willfully possessed classified information covering important national security matters, according to his report. Hur said Biden, if forced to sit trial, “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 also said it would be “difficult to convince a jury that they should convict him—by then a former president well into his eighties—of a serious felony that requires a mental state of willfulness.”
Biden tried to downplay the findings of the report in a surprise speech Thursday night in which he tried to address concerns about his memory. Biden said he keeps a rosary in memory of his son Beau before he appeared to forget the church parish it came from, resulting in just silence.
Biden then said Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi was the “president of Mexico.”
Biden also made claims that completely flew in the face of the findings of Hur’s report regarding documents found at his home, according to CNN’s White House correspondent, Min Jung “MJ” Lee.
“MJ, in the president’s remarks about the report itself, there are some things he said that didn’t actually match with the report. What were they?” CNN’s Phil Mattingly asked.
“Yeah, a couple of things from...
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