When Special Counsel Robert Hur interviewed President Biden, did he bring up the death of Joe Biden’s son Beau?
Regardless of who brought up Beau Biden, did President Biden have difficulty remembering what year his son died?
According to Biden’s angry reaction, Robert Hur was the one who brought up his son’s death. His exact words:
“How in the hell dare he raise that?Frankly, when I was asked the question, I thought to myself, it wasn’t any of their damn business.”
With the above in mind, here, as pulled from Reagan Reese’s article at dailycaller.com, are the actual responses from the transcript of Robert Hur’s interview with President Biden, is the sequence involving these two issues:
Rather than pushing Biden about the date of Beau Biden’s death, Hur questioned the president on where work-related papers were being kept following the conclusion of his vice presidency in January of 2017.
“Well, um … I, I, I, I, I don’t know. This is, what, 2017, 2018, that area?” Biden began.
“Yes, sir,” Hur responded.
“Remember, in this time frame, my son is — either been deployed or is dying, and, and so it was — and by the way, there were still a lot of people at the time when I got out of the Senate that were encouraging me to run in this period, except the president. I’m not — and not a mean thing to say. He just thought that she had a better shot of winning the presidency than I did,” Biden began. “And so I hadn’t, I hadn’t, at this point — even though I’m at Penn, I hadn’t walked away from the idea that I may run for office again. But if I ran again, I’d be running for president. And, and so what was happening, though — what month did Beau die? Oh, God, May 30 —”
“2015,” Rachel Cotton, a White House lawyer, interjected.
“2015,” an unidentified male confirmed.
“Was it 2015 he had died?” Biden asked.
“It was May of 2015,” an unidentified male reiterated.
“It was 2015,” Biden responded.
“Or — I’m not sure of the month, sir, but I think that was the year,” Robert Bauer, the president’s personal lawyer, weighed in.
As you can plainly see, Robert Hur did not bring up Beau Biden’s death. Joe Biden did. And Joe Biden did not remember what year his son died.
That means either Joe Biden lied to our faces about this, or he is so cognitively diminished that he can’t remember even a significant part of the interview like this one.
Sad to say, given Biden’s, er, reverence for the truth, and his cognitive state, it could be one, the other or both.
