Seymour Flops
Diamond Member
This could be a problem, Democrats.
Biden said: “All the stuff that was in my home was in filing cabinets that were either locked or able to be locked.”
Facts First: Biden’s claim is not true. The special counsel’s report says that while some of the classified documents were found in cabinet drawers in Biden’s Delaware home, other classified documents, about Afghanistan, were found in an “unsealed” and “badly damaged” box sitting in his garage alongside an assortment of other items the special counsel described as “household detritus.” The report includes a photo of the box.
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Biden claimed of the documents he possessed: “None of it was high classified. It didn’t have any of that red stuff on it, you know what I mean, around the corners? None of that.”
Facts First: Biden’s claim that none of the classified material found in his possession was highly classified is false, according to details provided by the special counsel. Hur reported the discovery of documents in Biden’s possession that had markings identifying them as “Top Secret/Sensitive Compartmented Information,” a very high level of classification – plus handwritten notebooks from Biden’s time as vice president that weren’t marked as classified but that “contain information that remains classified up to the Top Secret/Sensitive Compartmented Information level.”
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When a reporter responded that the special counsel said he did, Biden responded, “No, they did not say that. He did not say that.”
Facts First: Biden’s claim is false. Hur did say that, writing explicitly that “Mr. Biden shared information, including some classified information, from those notebooks with his ghostwriter.” He elaborated that Biden shared classified information with his ghostwriter by reading “nearly verbatim” from his notebooks “on at least three occasions,” including his “notes from meetings in the Situation Room.”
A couple points:
This shows to be false the frequent claims that when Biden "discovered" that he had classified material in his home, he immediately returned them. in 2017, he knew enough to tell his ghostwriter that he had "just found the classified stuff downstairs" and then procede to share them with him. $8,000,000 buys a lot of secrets from the Bidens, and not just for ghostwriters.
This is the second time that a major Democratic political figure was investigated for serious crimes involving mishandling of classified material and had the investigator decline to recommend prosecution - but - offer a lengthy explanation that made the subject look guilty as hell with a pretty thin reason for not prosecuting. The first was James Comey doing it to (or for) H. Clinton, and now Robert Hurr doing it to/for Joe Biden.
What's next? I suppose it will be much more honest version in which the investigator lays out all the evidence of guilt and then says, "I was all set to recommend prosecution on multiple felony counts . . . but then I remembered that this is a Democrat we're talking about and said 'Naaaaaaa.'"
Having the prosecutors and judges on your side will keep your candidates out of prison, Democrats, but without the media, they'll have a tough time being honestly elected. By the same token, it may put your opponents in prison, but that will only make it more likely that they will win.
Biden said: “All the stuff that was in my home was in filing cabinets that were either locked or able to be locked.”
Facts First: Biden’s claim is not true. The special counsel’s report says that while some of the classified documents were found in cabinet drawers in Biden’s Delaware home, other classified documents, about Afghanistan, were found in an “unsealed” and “badly damaged” box sitting in his garage alongside an assortment of other items the special counsel described as “household detritus.” The report includes a photo of the box.
. . .
Biden claimed of the documents he possessed: “None of it was high classified. It didn’t have any of that red stuff on it, you know what I mean, around the corners? None of that.”
Facts First: Biden’s claim that none of the classified material found in his possession was highly classified is false, according to details provided by the special counsel. Hur reported the discovery of documents in Biden’s possession that had markings identifying them as “Top Secret/Sensitive Compartmented Information,” a very high level of classification – plus handwritten notebooks from Biden’s time as vice president that weren’t marked as classified but that “contain information that remains classified up to the Top Secret/Sensitive Compartmented Information level.”
. . .
When a reporter responded that the special counsel said he did, Biden responded, “No, they did not say that. He did not say that.”
Facts First: Biden’s claim is false. Hur did say that, writing explicitly that “Mr. Biden shared information, including some classified information, from those notebooks with his ghostwriter.” He elaborated that Biden shared classified information with his ghostwriter by reading “nearly verbatim” from his notebooks “on at least three occasions,” including his “notes from meetings in the Situation Room.”
A couple points:
This shows to be false the frequent claims that when Biden "discovered" that he had classified material in his home, he immediately returned them. in 2017, he knew enough to tell his ghostwriter that he had "just found the classified stuff downstairs" and then procede to share them with him. $8,000,000 buys a lot of secrets from the Bidens, and not just for ghostwriters.
This is the second time that a major Democratic political figure was investigated for serious crimes involving mishandling of classified material and had the investigator decline to recommend prosecution - but - offer a lengthy explanation that made the subject look guilty as hell with a pretty thin reason for not prosecuting. The first was James Comey doing it to (or for) H. Clinton, and now Robert Hurr doing it to/for Joe Biden.
What's next? I suppose it will be much more honest version in which the investigator lays out all the evidence of guilt and then says, "I was all set to recommend prosecution on multiple felony counts . . . but then I remembered that this is a Democrat we're talking about and said 'Naaaaaaa.'"
Having the prosecutors and judges on your side will keep your candidates out of prison, Democrats, but without the media, they'll have a tough time being honestly elected. By the same token, it may put your opponents in prison, but that will only make it more likely that they will win.
