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Fact check: Biden makes three false claims about his handling of classified information
CNN ^ | Fri February 9, 2024 | By Daniel Dale

Posted on 02/09/2024 7:44:35 PM PST by 11th_VA

President Joe Biden gave a press conference Thursday night after the release of a report from special counsel Robert Hur …

Biden was combative, forcefully rejecting Hur’s claims that he has a poor memory. But the president was also repeatedly inaccurate, making the claims that were clearly contradicted by Hur’s report.

(1)Where the classified material was stored

… Biden embellished his argument with a false claim.

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: The special counsel’s report says … classified documents, about Afghanistan, were found in an “unsealed” and “badly damaged” box sitting in his garage alongside an assortment of other items …

(2)The classification level of the documents Biden had in his possession

Biden claimed of the documents he possessed: “None of it was high classified …”

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 …

(3)What Hur said Biden said to his ghostwriter

Hur said in the report that Biden disclosed classified material from his notebooks to the ghostwriter, Mark Zwonitzer, who worked with him on a 2017 memoir …But Biden categorically denied that he had shared classified information with the ghostwriter ...

Facts First: Biden’s claim is false. Hur did say that “Mr. Biden shared information, including some classified information, from those notebooks with his ghostwriter.” … “reading “nearly verbatim” from his notebooks “on at least three occasions,” including his “notes from meetings in the Situation Room.”

(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: cnn; factchecking; fjb; speech
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To: 11th_VA

Biden was only SENATOR or VICE PRESIDENT when he took the documents.

Trump was PRESIDENT. He was entitled to take them.

The two cases are NOT similar. Biden’s was illegal, Trump’s was legal.

Dems are ranting that Biden gave them back while Trump kept them.


21 posted on 02/10/2024 4:29:21 AM PST by FroggyTheGremlim (Plunk your magic twanger, Froggy!)
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To: 11th_VA

The Mediacrats got their marching orders. Biden needs to go at the convention and Gavin Newsome will be the eventual nominee.


22 posted on 02/10/2024 4:46:58 AM PST by EQAndyBuzz (Trump/Jennifer-Ruth Green in 24)
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To: 11th_VA

FUJB has his marbles when he created and executed plans to swipe/steal government documents first as a Senator, later as vice president.

We can find FUJB guilty this day, and distribute Justice


23 posted on 02/10/2024 5:05:24 AM PST by Steven Tyler
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To: 11th_VA

Count me in with “the deep state and their media are kicking Biden to the curb” posters.


24 posted on 02/10/2024 6:06:43 AM PST by TwelveOfTwenty (Will whoever keeps asking if this country can get any more insane please stop?)
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To: 11th_VA

Fact check: When did Biden make honest claims about anything.


25 posted on 02/10/2024 7:52:43 AM PST by Vaduz
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To: TigersEye

WHAT AN AMAZING DOUBLE STANDARD:

TOO senile to stand trial for transgressions of 50 +++ years, but still in charge of the USA, CIC, and ‘the football’.


26 posted on 02/10/2024 8:52:49 AM PST by ridesthemiles
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To: ridesthemiles

4 Lies Joe Biden Spouted Off In Angry Special Counsel Press Conference

https://thefederalist.com/2024/02/09/4-lies-joe-biden-spouted-off-in-angry-special-counsel-press-conference/


27 posted on 02/10/2024 1:51:51 PM PST by Texan4Life
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To: ridesthemiles

And that double standard persists if you look at it from the other side.

They keep saying DJT is mentally incompetent yet they keep charging him with offenses and expect him to hire lawyers and show up in court.

DemonRats seem to thrive on being hypocrites as if it’s another form of virtue signalling.


28 posted on 02/10/2024 6:47:59 PM PST by TigersEye (Our Republic is under seige by globalist Marxists. Hold fast!)
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