'How in the hell dare he': Biden strikes defiant tone about special counsel report

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: NBC News

Feb. 8, 2024, 7:49 PM EST / Updated Feb. 8, 2024, 9:07 PM EST


WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden forcefully defended himself against charges that he suffers from memory loss, delivering remarks Thursday night in response to special counsel Robert Hur's report on his handling of classified information.

Hur’s report included characterizations of the president’s mental fitness, saying his memory was “significantly limited, both during his recorded interviews with the ghostwriter in 2017, and in his interview with our office in 2023.”

The report also said Biden did not remember, even within several years, when his son Beau died.

"How in the hell dare he raise that?" Biden said, adding that when he was asked about Beau's death during the probe, he thought to himself that it "wasn't any of their damn business." Biden's son Beau died in 2015 from brain cancer.

Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/biden-national-address-special-counsel-report-rcna138031

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Feb. 8, 2024, 7:49 PM EST


WASHINGTON -- President Joe Biden forcefully defended himself against charges that he suffers from memory loss, delivering remarks Thursday night in response to special counsel Robert Hur's report on his handling of classified information.

Hur's report included characterizations of the president's mental state, saying that Biden's memory was "significantly limited, both during his recorded interviews with the ghostwriter in 2017, and in his interview with our office in 2023." The report also said that he had trouble remembering the timing of his son Beau's death.

"How in the hell dare he raise that," Biden said.

He also said: "My memory's fine."

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Feb. 8, 2024, 7:49 PM EST


WASHINGTON -- President Joe Biden delivered remarks Thursday night in response to special counsel Robert Hur's report on his handling of classified information.

Hur's report included characterizations of the president's memory, saying that Biden's memory was "significantly limited, both during his recorded interviews with the ghostwriter in 2017, and in his interview with our office in 2023." The report also said that he had trouble remembering the timing of his son Beau's death.

"How in the hell dare he raise that," Biden said. He also said: "My memory's fine."

The White House did not provide any details on the subject of his speech before Biden's remarks. No remarks were listed for his schedule Thursday. Instead, they were added in the evening.

[onecaliberal]

1. I am fucking enraged.

[badhair77]

2. That show of rage was a great moment.

[dem4decades]

3. I'm more depressed than ever.

[BumRushDaShow]

5. You shouldn't be

The GOP and their mainstream media had a bad day yesterday after two failed votes that they were sure would yield a "blow" to Democrats.

And today, Navarro was ordered to prison (he wasn't as lucky as Bannon).

But this big story was that "there was no there there" and what you are seeing is them trying to manufacture a different "there there" because they blew it, they know it, they have been whining about it the past couple days, and this is their venting.

Meanwhile we carry on!

[dem4decades]

7. I tuned in late, I heard Biden say something about CC and Mexico and the Gaza gate. I love Joe but they

will make hay with that, Tonight of all nights to have a gaff, it sucks.

[tavernier]

11. He miss spoke one word.

I haven’t heard any of the many talking heads bring it up.

[dem4decades]

16. I'm on a couple of other websites, ones that attack Biden endlessly, I defend Joe and his administration always.

A misspoke word is a problem, I'll do my best to defend Joe, but I wish he didn't come back to the mic to reward those whores who represent the press at the white house. If there's a bigger bunch of egomaniacs on the planet, I'm not aware of it.

[BumRushDaShow]

13. His schedule the past week has been mind-boggling

I have OPs just from the past week where he has been to multiple fundraisers (including in Las Vegas), meetings with Democratic Congressional House members and that didn't count the 3 fundraisers this past Tuesday in NYC, etc.

There is no f-ing way that I, someone a little less than 20 years younger than him, could even fathom keeping that kind of schedule.

Hell... when it's a heavy news day, I can go bananas filling out the LBN post form on DU.

[ancianita]

34. EXACTLY.

[pfitz59]

36. I heard it also

Yep, a gaffe. some reporter will eventually comment. Sisi is President of Egypt.

[Demsrule86]

46. I didn't hear any gaffes...and I watched the entire thing.

[Marthe48]

4. It is a travesty that the contents of the report was not edited by a supervisor

Ridiculous that an unsupported personal opinion was allowed to be entered into a report meant to be objective. Ridiculous that something as personal as a child's death was used as political tinder.

I think it is easy to fudge the anniversary of a tragedy. I have not correctly remembered a single loved one's date of death. I am usually off by a day.

[claudette]

9. Me, too

The date of the death of someone is not something one celebrates like the Catholic Church does and calls it a "Feast Day." It's
easy to forget the exact year, month or day of a painful experience. I have done that many times.

[toesonthenose]

12. The report should have just been released - No charges. The end!

[LeftInTX]

27. A reminder that my mom died 10 years ago tomorrow. I often get the date wrong.

[Marthe48]

35. Hope you enjoy good memories

And maybe remember a few you had forgotten

[catrose]

37. My closest friend died in December. I am not sure of the date; I can't separate all the days of howling grief.

And it doesn't matter. My friend is gone.

[LeftInTX]

38. Sure enough, I got the date wrong again. It's the 10th.

[The Roux Comes First]

48. I Have Enough Trouble with Birthdays and Anniversaries for People Who Are ALIVE!!

Getting tripped up by corrupt "journalists," obviously bribed for that role, is a new level of insanity.

[claudette]

6. We love and

understand you, President Biden. Gopers are as crazy as the orange criminal they drool over.

[mahina]

8. God bless you Joe.

What a shitbag would do such a thing to a decent man, play gotcha with his son's death. Shame on him.

[PatSeg]

20. A republican shitbag

Apparently, they have no bottom.

[jvill]

10. How does AG Garland allow this to go out?

It's time we call it: Garland has been a disaster. The time is gonna run out on these Trump cases, and it's because he took 2 years to get his butt in gear. And how did he let this classless, slimy report come out on Biden? A shameful disaster of an AG.

[BumRushDaShow]

15. "it's because he took 2 years to get his butt in gear."

I don't know why DU keeps repeating the same misinformation.

The insurrection was January 6, 2021.
Biden was inaugurated January 20, 2021.
Garland was nominated and confirmed March 11, 2021.
House Democrats under SOH Nancy Pelosi created a special January 6 Committee (since Congress was attacked) June 30, 2021
The U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia who handles all the J6 cases was nominated and confirmed October 28, 2021

During this time, they were all parallel investigating, subpoenaing, and getting hung up in court as the depth of the conspiracy began to unfold. What happened with Navarro today, was a perfect example of the hoops that had to be jumped since he was charged with refusing to comply with a Congressional subpoena sent by the J6 Committee.

Here is the link to DOJ's Capitol Breach cases - https://www.justice.gov/usao-dc/capitol-breach-cases (1,313 charged as of 2/6/24)

The Mar-a-Lago investigation finally kicked off when NARA, who was responsible for referring to DOJ, finally exhausted their processes (which took a year of requests to get material back) and DOJ took over in spring of 2022, culminating in a final search and seizure August 8, 2022

Jack Smith was brought in to wrangle what became a nightmare of multiple cases (including NARA's case on government documents) November 18, 2022 (AFTER DOJ had already done the search/seizure)

[ancianita]

22. EXACTLY. THANK YOU.

I'm so SICK of Garland detractors on DU.

[BumRushDaShow]

24. It's a repeat of what was done to Obama on DU

It was to the point of being obscene.

[RussBLib]

39. the constant Garland bashing sure gets old

...one bit of not-so-great news and they pull out all the same tropes and BS. Moaning, groaning, gnashing of teeth. The good news often goes unremarked upon.

...makes it seem like some people have a special, perhaps hidden, agenda. Some people seem to expect perfection, something that has never been and never will be.

But go ahead. Free speech and all.

[Hekate]

31. Thank you a hundred times

[Blue Idaho]

14. I love President Biden

Especially when he’s rightfully pissed about this right wing hatchet job. What a piece of trash.

[twodogsbarking]

17. I watched. He didn't say "fuck you assholes" but it would have been appropriate.

[BumRushDaShow]

18. I'm sure he wanted to

and probably did anyway once he walked away.

[ancianita]

23. I wish he'd kicked the door as he walked out, as we once saw Obama do.

Okay, maybe Obama didn't, per Snopes but I still wish Biden had.

[BumRushDaShow]

25. LOL

(whoever created that was a genius )

[ancianita]

26. RIGHT? I was going to post that gif, but was "informed" that it's fake.

[BumRushDaShow]

30. Yup

but it was still perfect when it "went viral"!

[ancianita]

32. It was! Can't find a similar fake for Biden, but

I'm posting this one on Facebook. It's my idea of Biden being presidential.

[BumRushDaShow]

43. Perfect!

[question everything]

19. Who is this "special Counsel" Robert Hur?

What was he supposed to have investigate?

[BumRushDaShow]

21. He was a former U.S. Attorney for the District of Maryland under 45

and was dismissed (like most of the other U.S. Attorneys) when Biden came into office. Biden is still filling some of the rest of the U.S. Attorney vacancies (there are 93 U.S. Attorneys).

Robert Hur was appointed to investigate the discovery of classified documents that Biden had in various locations from when he was VP.

This ran parallel with the investigation of Mike Pence and the classified documents that he had.

Here is a summary of these cases - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/justice-department-wont-bring-charges-over-classified-documents-found-at-pences-home

[LetMyPeopleVote]

28. President Biden dealt with this lie tonight

Link to tweet

[dalton99a]

33. +1. Hur is low-life scum

[SunSeeker]

29. It was such a disgusting, cruel cheapshot by Hur.

May he burn in Hell for that.

[niyad]

40. May hur, and all his enablers, receive everything they deserve.

[videohead5]

41. Hur is a liar!

In the report it says the President Biden willfully kept classified documents then later in the report it says that there is no proof that President Biden willfully kept classified documents. Hur bases that on Biden telling his ghost writer in a phone call about classified documents that were actually a letter to Obama about Afghanistan. President Biden said that he should've used the word private documents instead of classified.

[C Moon]

42. And then there's "covfefe". Gimme a fucking break. trump is a fucking idiot.

The media needs a close race so they can rake in millions of advertising dollars.

[3825-87867]

44. For all the Garland defenders out there...

Good thing he didn't pick a "Democratic Investigator" or the asses on the right and the asswipe media would question his "Partisanship"!
Hope you're all happy with Garland's "neutral" choice adding a slam for his adopted god. Take another quarter out of the Republican Tip Jar, Garland, so you don't look partisan.

I'm sure the media will defend Joe by reporting on national news,ASAP, even some of the stupid, idiotic mistakes and forgetful items the orange Tootsie Pop has uttered.

I will wait.

Any moment now...

[BumRushDaShow]

45. ...

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10143191736

[Qutzupalotl]

47. Biden's response is relatable to anyone who has suffered a major loss.

It's clear the swipe was gratuitous and out of line. So Joe will get sympathy from his supporters while his glib detractors make themselves look shallow and ghoulish.

It's hard to imagine any benefit to Trump under this scenario. The ones repeating the memory charge were not voting Biden anyway, ever. Those watching or listening to their display are not more likely to vote Trump as a result; I'd say even a little less. Decency is appealing to independents; exploiting grief is not.