2024-02-27 12:44:39
House Committee Chairs Jim Jordan (R-OH) and James Comer (R-KY) issued a subpoena for President Joe Biden’s classified documents scandal deposition on Tuesday, in which the special counsel described the president as “an elderly man with a poor memory.”
Biden’s Justice Department (DOJ) skipped the congressional deadline to hand over Special Counsel Robert Hur’s “poor memory” transcribed interview, Breitbart News learned on Thursday.
- The House Oversight Committee requested the transcript on February 12 and set a deadline of February 19 to respond.
- Biden has the power to declassify the material immediately.
If the Justice Department is forced to release the interview, it would help Congress decipher the degree of Biden’s “deteriorated” memory and shed light on his fitness for office.
Biden’s White House counsel claimed the report’s characterization of Biden’s memory was “gratuitous” and “politically motivated” — in other words, essentially inaccurate.
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“Americans expect equal justice under the law and DOJ is allowing the Bidens to operate above it. Special Counsel Hur’s report outlined that classified documents Joe Biden stashed for years relate to countries where his family cashed in on the Biden brand,” Comer wrote in a letter to the attorney general.
“We owe it to the American people to provide transparency and accountability about the extent of Joe Biden retaining sensitive materials and the concerns raised about his current mental state and fitness to be President of the United States,” he added.
This image, contained in the report from Special Counsel Robert Hur and marked with the number 1, shows a damaged box where classified documents were found in the garage of President Joe Biden in Wilmington, Delaware, during a search by the FBI on December 21, 2022. (Justice Department via AP)
“The transcripts and materials from his investigation are critical to our oversight work,” Jordan added.
🚨 #BREAKING: @Jim_Jordan and @RepJamesComer subpoena Attorney General Merrick Garland for records, including transcripts, notes, video, and audio files, related to Special Counsel Robert Hur’s investigation of President Joe Biden’s willful mishandling of classified information. pic.twitter.com/S1pEOllVWl
— House Judiciary GOP (@JudiciaryGOP) February 27, 2024
The establishment media’s reaction to Hur’s report was striking. The media defended Biden’s “poor” memory by claiming the president’s health is “acute” and that any speculation to the contrary is “ageist” and a “right-wing media” conspiracy theory.
About one-third of Democrats doubt Biden’s mental fitness, a Harvard/Harris survey found in December. Another poll revealed a whopping 82 percent of Americans harbor concerns about his physical and mental health.
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Wendell Husebo is a political reporter with Breitbart News and a former GOP War Room Analyst. He is the author of Politics of Slave Morality. Follow Wendell on “X” @WendellHusebø or on Truth Social @WendellHusebo.
