{"id":13787,"date":"2024-03-13T04:29:50","date_gmt":"2024-03-12T22:59:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/13\/robert-hur-testifies-as-private-citizen\/"},"modified":"2024-03-13T04:29:50","modified_gmt":"2024-03-12T22:59:50","slug":"robert-hur-testifies-as-private-citizen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/13\/robert-hur-testifies-as-private-citizen\/","title":{"rendered":"Robert Hur Testifies as Private Citizen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_82\">\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<p>Special Counsel Robert Hur resigned last week following the investigation into Joe Biden\u2019s mishandling of classified documents.<\/p>\n<p>Hur must still comply with the policies given to Department of Justice (DOJ) employees.<\/p>\n<p>During his testimony, Hur said, \u201cWe identified evidence that the President [Biden] willfully retained classified materials after the end of his vice presidency, when he was a private citizen.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis evidence included an audio recorded conversation, during which Mr. Biden told his ghostwriter that he had just found all the classified stuff downstairs,\u201d he explained. \u201cWhen Mr. Biden said this, he was a private citizen speaking to his ghostwriter in his private rental home in Virginia.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;We identified evidence that the President [Biden] willfully retained classified materials after the end of his vice presidency, when he was a private citizen.&#8221; \u2013 former Special Counsel Robert Hur <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/CuzrARtBqR\">pic.twitter.com\/CuzrARtBqR<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 House Republicans (@HouseGOP) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HouseGOP\/status\/1767561489110450639?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 12, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>He asserted that he \u201cdid not\u201d exonerate Biden.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">NEW: Special Counsel Robert Hur testifies that he did *not* exonerate President Joe Biden.<\/p>\n<p>The moment came after Democrat Rep. Pramila Jayapal claimed that Biden was exonerated.<\/p>\n<p>Hur said he did not exonerate Biden which prompted Jayapal to have a fit and move on.<\/p>\n<p>Hur: \u201cI did\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Fq9RmS5ai6\">pic.twitter.com\/Fq9RmS5ai6<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CollinRugg\/status\/1767595028778815788?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 12, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>In an almost\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/storage\/report-from-special-counsel-robert-k-hur-february-2024.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">400-page document<\/a>, the Special Counsel\u2019s Office wrote, \u201cOur investigation uncovered evidence that President Biden willfully retained and disclosed classified materials after his vice presidency when he was a private citizen.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMr. Biden\u2019s memory was significantly limited, both during his recorded interviews with the ghostwriter in 2017, and in his interview with our office in 2023,\u201d the report <a href=\"https:\/\/americanfaith.com\/justice-department-says-biden-willfully-withheld-documents-no-prosecution\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">added<\/a>. \u201cAnd his cooperation with our investigation, including by reporting to the government that the Afghanistan documents were in his Delaware garage, will likely convince some jurors that he made an innocent mistake, rather than acting willfully \u2013 that is, with intent to break the law \u2013 as the statute requires.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>This is a developing story and will be updated.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>                    <!--begin code --><\/p>\n<p>                    <!--end code --><\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/americanfaith.com\/robert-hur-testifies-as-private-citizen\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Special Counsel Robert Hur resigned last week following the investigation into Joe Biden\u2019s mishandling of classified documents. Hur must still comply with the policies given to Department of Justice (DOJ) employees. During his testimony, Hur said, \u201cWe identified evidence that the President [Biden] willfully retained classified materials after the end of his vice presidency, when [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13788,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[]},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13787"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13787\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}