Re: Biden lawyer calls special counsel Hur's report 'off the rails'

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> Karine Jean-Pierre is the dumbest cunt next to Kamala Harris the world
> has ever seen. 

Joe Biden’s lawyer called special counsel Robert Hur’s report commenting
in part on the president’s age and health “off the rails” and “shabby”
on Sunday. 

An angry and animated Joe Biden previously hit back at the Republican
prosecutor’s claim that his memory is faulty during a last-minute and
at-times chaotic press conference on Thursday. 

The president hit out at parts of the report released earlier in the day
by Justice Department special counsel Robert Hur into his handling of
classified documents and became infuriated at a suggestion that he did
not remember the year his late son, Beau Biden, died from brain cancer. 

On Friday, Kamala Harris joined the White House fight back, slamming the
report as “politically motivated”, and saying she found details in it
“gratuitous, inaccurate and inappropriate”. 

She said she has been “privileged and proud to serve as vice president
of the United States” under Mr Biden, and said Mr Hur’s remarks on Mr
Biden’s age and memory were “gratuitous, inaccurate, and inappropriate”. 

Mr Hur’s report concluded that Mr Biden will not face charges for
“willfully” holding onto documents after he left office as Barack
Obama’s vice president in January 2017. 

The report, which was delivered to Congress after many months of
investigation and preparation, recommended no criminal charges for the
incumbent president, even were he not protected by immunity from
prosecution due to his current stature. 

However, the investigators painted a picture of a senile president with
severe memory issues whose innocence was less clear than his supporters
would have hoped, while not necessarily coming across to a potential
jury as malicious or criminal. 

It stated that the materials included files on military policy in
Afghanistan and handwritten notes on national security, also suggesting
that Mr Biden would look like an “elderly man with a poor memory” to a
jury if he were to be hit with criminal charges. 

Key Points
Biden comes out fighting over claims about his memory at surprise press
conference 

Special counsel finds Biden 'willfully retained' classified documents

Biden will not face criminal charges in classified documents case

Biden is ‘elderly man with poor memory’ and can’t recall when son died,
says report 

Watch: White House doesn’t rule out releasing transcripts of Biden’s
special counsel interview Friday 9 February 2024 19:10 , Oliver
O'Connell 


Watch: White House says DOJ staffers say report gratuitous and
inconsistent with policy Friday 9 February 2024 19:28 , Oliver O'Connell


Democrats use Mike Johnson’s Iran-Israel gaffe to take heat off Biden
Friday 9 February 2024 19:30 , Oliver O'Connell

Democrats are rushing to defend President Joe Biden after he appeared to
confuse Mexico with Egypt during a press conference called to refute
claims about his poor memory. 

Following the release of Special Counsel Robert Hur’s report on Thursday
– which claimed Mr Biden’s memory was “significantly limited” –
Democratic lawmakers pointed to House Speaker Mike Johnson’s own gaffe,
where he confused Iran with Israel last week. 

Martha McHardy has the story:


Democrats share Mike Johnson’s Iran-Israel gaffe in bid to take heat off
Biden 

Friday 9 February 2024 19:37 , Oliver O'Connell


Biden launching task force to prevent classified doc mishaps
Friday 9 February 2024 19:45 , Oliver O'Connell

President Biden will soon name a high-level task force to recommend
procedures that will prevent classified materials from being mishandled
or inadvertantly lost during presidential transitions in the future,
White House spokesperson Ian Sams said on Friday. 

Mr Sams, who serves as a spokesperson for the White House Counsel’s
Office, was addressing reporters at the daily White House press briefing
following the release of a report from Special Counsel Robert Hur in
which Mr Hur, a Republican who served in the Trump administration,
assailed Mr Biden’s memory while declining to charge him with any crime
stemming from the discovery of classified materials at his Wilmington,
Delaware home. 

He told reporters that the National Archives has found that the
misfiling of classified materials during transitions has been a common
occurrence which Mr Biden believes should be fixed. 

Andrew Feinberg reports:


Biden launches task force to prevent future classified document mishaps

Analysis: Biden just denied he was mentally unfit – then made things
even worse Friday 9 February 2024 20:00 , Oliver O'Connell

John Bowden writes:

Joe Biden tried to brush off concerns about his mental fitness and
memory on Thursday at an impromptu press conference – but he made a
glaring mistake that undermined his indignant defence of his abilities. 

In isolation, it was perhaps just another relatively minor moment of
misspeaking for the president, but it came at exactly the wrong moment. 

Continue reading...


Joe Biden just tried to deny he was mentally unfit – but he made a
glaring mistake 

Watch: What do Democrats do now?
Friday 9 February 2024 20:15 , Oliver O'Connell


Harris launches into fiery defence of Biden as she slams ‘integrity’ of
special counsel Friday 9 February 2024 20:30 , Oliver O'Connell

Andrew Feinberg, our White House correspondent, filed this report:

Vice President Kamala Harris on Friday came out swinging with a
full-throated defence of President Joe Biden in the wake of an
unflattering report on his conduct by a Republican special prosecutor. 

Ms Harris was speaking in the Indian Treaty Room at the Eisenhower
Executive Office Building at an event hosted by the White House’s gun
violence prevention office when she addressed the matter of Mr Hur’s
report, which critics have assailed as including gratuitous attacks on
the president even as it announced that he will not face any criminal
charges stemming from the discovery of classified documents at his
Delaware home. 

She said she has been “privileged and proud to serve as vice president
of the United States” under Mr Biden, and said Mr Hur’s remarks on Mr
Biden’s age and memory were “gratuitous, inaccurate, and inappropriate”. 

Continue reading...


Kamala Harris gives fiery defence of Biden and slams ‘integrity’ of
special counsel 

Biden: Failure of Congress to not support Ukraine is ‘criminal neglect’
and ‘outrageous' Friday 9 February 2024 20:38 , Oliver O'Connell


Key takeaways from the report into Biden’s classified documents
Friday 9 February 2024 21:00 , John Bowden

A report on the Justice Department’s investigation into Joe Biden’s
unauthorised retention of classified materials was made public on
Thursday – and it was as troubling for the president and his public
image as it was vindicating for those who argued he had committed no
crimes. 

The report was authored by Robert Hur, a former US attorney appointed by
Donald Trump and later elevated to the rank of special counsel by
Attorney General Merrick Garland. 

Delivered to Congress this week after many months of investigation and
preparation, it recommended no criminal charges for the incumbent
president, even were he not protected by immunity from prosecution due
to his current stature. 

It did, however, contain much that will concern many Americans and was
overall far from complimentary of the incumbent president. 

The investigators painted a picture of a senile president with severe
memory issues whose innocence was less clear than his supporters would
have hoped, while not necessarily coming across to a potential jury as
malicious or criminal. 

Let’s take a look at the key takeaways from Mr Hur’s report:


Classified documents kept by dog bed and memory troubles: Takeaways from
Biden report 

Watch: ‘That part of the report does not live in reality'
Friday 9 February 2024 21:30 , Oliver O'Connell

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