Special Counsel Robert Hur acknowledged Tuesday that the investigation found evidence that Joe Biden was keeping classified materials to line his own pockets.
During a House Judiciary Committee hearing, Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) asked Ho to speculate about Biden’s motives for keeping classified information. Mr. Xu initially declined to comment on Mr. Biden’s possible motives, but that prompted Mr. Jordan to quote Mr. Xu himself.
Ho said in his report that Biden had a “strong motive” to ignore regulations protecting classified information because he wanted to write a book.Her I have written:
Mr. Biden had a strong incentive to ignore proper procedures to protect the classified information contained in the notebook. He decided to write the book a few months before he left office, and he began meeting with a ghostwriter while he was still vice president. Even after becoming vice president, his notes remained a valuable source of information, and he consulted them liberally. In hours of recorded interviews, read from notes in his private residence, Mr. Biden provided the ghostwriter with raw material detailing meetings and events that would be of interest to future readers and book buyers. .
Jordan then asked Hoare about the advance Biden received for his book, “Dad, Promise Me.” According to Ho’s report, Biden received $8 million. This is a very advantageous deal.
“Joe Biden had eight million reasons to break the rules. He took classified information and shared it with someone who was writing a book,” Jordan said. “He knew the rules, but he broke them with an $8 million book advance.”
Mr. Jordan then highlighted Mr. Xu’s assessment that Mr. Biden had kept classified documents to “reinforce” his view that Mr. Biden played an important role in history.
Mr. Xu wrote in his report:
[Biden] It is also possible that, like the classified documents with Afghanistan-related markings recovered from the garage, these notebooks were considered an irreplaceable contemporary record of some of the most important moments of his time as vice president. Highly sexual. This record was valuable to him for many reasons, including protecting his record and strengthening his legacy as a world leader.
“It wasn’t just the money, it wasn’t just the $8 million, it was his ego!” Jordan summed up. “He deliberately broke the rules for pride and money. Pride and money are the oldest motivations in the book.”
In follow-up questions, Jordan asked Herr if he agreed with that assessment, and he did.
“That language does appear in the report, and we have identified evidence to support those assessments,” Hoare explained.
Mr. Xu testified for more than four hours on Tuesday about his investigation and report. Unfortunately, Democrats used the hearing to repeatedly attack Donald Trump and make false claims about Heo’s report.
Specifically, Democrats claimed that Hur had “exonerated” Biden, or that he was found to be “totally innocent.”
However, Mr. Xu revealed them many times. is not the conclusion he reached. In fact, Mr. Hoar told Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.) that his own investigation did not exonerate Mr. Biden.
On the contrary, Mr. Ha In his opening statement he explained: His investigation “identified evidence that the president knowingly retained classified materials after he served as vice president and while he was a civilian.”
Despite this evidence, Ho recommended criminal charges against Biden because he determined it was unlikely that prosecutors would be able to prove the case beyond a reasonable doubt, especially because of Biden’s memory impairment. He said he did not.
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