Mr. Heo’s report included verbatim quotes from Mr. Biden, such as, “If it was 2013, when would I have stopped being vice president?” “Am I Still Vice President in 2009?” The Biden team claims that the portrayal of Mr. Xu is inaccurate and unfairly defamatory.
Note that Mr. Herr does not provide a verbatim quote when he writes, “I did not remember when my son Beau died, even within a few years.” Clearly, this accusation infuriated Biden. At the president’s press conference last week, Biden was furious. Frankly, when I was asked that question, I thought to myself, it’s none of their business. ”
The issue Ho asked about Beau Biden’s death resonated so much with Democrats and the president’s supporters that first lady Jill Biden addressed the issue in a recent fundraising letter to donors. mentioned the matter. They are using our son’s death to score political points,” she wrote in an email over the weekend. “If you’ve ever experienced a loss like that, you know it’s not measured in years, it’s measured in grief.”
Biden campaign officials told The Associated Press that Jill Biden’s message was the most effective email the president has sent to campaign donors since the email that launched his re-election campaign in April. Ta.
Clearly, though, that mean-spirited invocation of Joe Biden’s darkest days didn’t happen the way the president described it.
NBC News reported Wednesday that it was not Mr. Hsu or his team who brought up the topic of Beau Biden’s death, according to two people familiar with Mr. Hun’s five-hour interview with the president over two days in October. It was reported that he was the president. Officials said that after the president was asked about his work flow at a rental home in Virginia from 2016 to 2018, his son, in the context of discussing what else was going on in his life at the time. He claimed to have mentioned the death of (Beau Biden died of brain cancer in 2015.)
Perfect irony: Biden lied or misremembered at a press conference last week while trying to refute accusations that he didn’t remember events well. I recall in September 2021, when Gen. Kenneth “Frank” McKenzie, the commander of U.S. Central Command, and Gen. Mark A. Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, testified to Congress that they had recommended that Biden keep it. There are 2,500 troops in Afghanistan. About a month earlier, in a controversial interview with ABC News’ George Stephanopoulos, Biden said he didn’t recall anyone recommending it.
STEPHANOPOULOS: I mean, no one said that. No military adviser said to you, “No, we should keep her 2,500 troops.” The situation has remained stable for the past few years. we can do it. Can we continue to do that? ”
BIDEN: No, as far as I can remember, no one has ever said that to me.
Biden may indeed be lying. But the more frightening option is that Biden is telling the truth — he doesn’t remember what he said in a news conference months ago.
As the Biden campaign strongly pushes back against the claims in the Hur report, especially the allegations surrounding Beau Biden’s death, there is an easy way to resolve the issue. That means releasing recordings and audio recordings of interviews with the president.
If Mr. Huh is lying, the people should know it. If Mr. Hsu accurately portrayed a groggy president who has difficulty remembering the dates of basic events, the American people have a right to know.
The White House could direct the Justice Department to release transcripts and audio recordings of interviews, and the president could perhaps assert executive privilege at the request of a congressional committee. Seem. The Freedom of Information process includes discussion of confidential materials, and some of the discussions dealing with those details may need to be redacted, which may delay the Freedom of Information process. However, given the circumstances, this process should be expedited.
It’s unclear what Biden will do. But if someone lied about what you said or did, and you had a record to prove the accusations are false, wouldn’t you want to put that record out there?
And if Biden and his team choose not to release the records, it’s perfectly fair to draw some conclusions about who is accurately characterizing his testimony.