(National Review) During President Joe Biden’s press conference last week after the release of a report on his mishandling of classified documents that mentioned the president’s “significantly limited” memory, Biden attacked special counsel Robert Hur over the section of the report detailing the president’s inability to recall when his son, Beau, died.
Addressing the claims that he could not remember when his son passed away, Biden slammed Hur for questioning him on the subject in the first place, asking, “How in the hell dare he raise that?” and saying, “It wasn’t any of their damn business.”
According to a Wednesday NBC News report, Hur never asked that question. Instead, Biden was the one who brought up his son’s death during the interview.
The president first mentioned Beau — who passed in 2015 after a battle with brain cancer — after investigators asked him about a period he spent at a rented house in Virginia while working on a memoir with a ghostwriter. Hur’s team questioned Biden on the memoir because of a 2017 recording in which the president told the ghostwriter he encountered “classified stuff” in the house.
The NBC report, citing “two people familiar with Hur’s five-hour interview with the president over two days last October,” holds that it was upon being asked about his time in Virginia that Biden could not accurately pinpoint the year Beau died.
