According to multiple media outlets, which means the White House is staying out in front of this story, Joe Biden was interviewed by Special Counsel Robert Hur (pictured below left) about the classified documents located in his Delaware home, beach house and office in Pennsylvania. The documents stem from the time when Joe Biden was a senator and vice-president.
WASHINGTON DC – President Joe Biden has been interviewed by the special counsel team investigating how classified documents from his time as vice president ended up at his office and home, the White House said Monday night.
The interview was conducted at the White House on Sunday and Monday and was done voluntarily, the administration added.
“As we have said from the beginning, the President and the White House are cooperating with this investigation, and as it has been appropriate, we have provided relevant updates publicly, being as transparent as we can consistent with protecting and preserving the integrity of the investigation,” Ian Sams, spokesperson for the White House, said in a statement. (read more)
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From AG Merrick Garland remarks (emphasis mine):
[Transcript] […] “On the evening of November 4, 2022, the National Archives Office of Inspector General contacted a prosecutor at the Department of Justice. It informed him that the White House [Counsel] had notified the Archives that documents bearing classification markings were identified at the office of the Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement, located in Washington, D.C. That office was not authorized for storage of classified documents. The prosecutor was also advised that those documents had been secured in an Archives facility.
On November 9, the FBI commenced an assessment, consistent with standard protocols, to understand whether classified information had been mishandled in violation of federal law.
On November 14, pursuant to Section 600.2(b) of the Special Counsel regulations, I assigned U.S. Attorney Lausch to conduct an initial investigation to inform my decision whether to appoint a Special Counsel.
Mr. Lausch has served as the U.S. Attorney in Chicago since 2017. Before that, he spent more than a decade as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in that same office. I selected him to conduct the initial investigation because I was confident his experience would ensure that it would be done professionally and expeditiously.
On December 20, President Biden’s personal counsel informed Mr. Lausch that additional documents bearing classification markings were identified in the garage of the President’s private residence in Wilmington, Delaware. President Biden’s counsel informed Mr. Lausch that those documents were among other records from the period of the President’s service as Vice President. The FBI went to the location and secured those documents.
On January 5, 2023, Mr. Lausch briefed me on the results of his initial investigation and advised me that further investigation by a Special Counsel was warranted. Based on Mr. Lausch’s initial investigation, I concluded that, under the Special Counsel regulations, it was in the public interest to appoint a Special Counsel. In the days since, while Mr. Lausch continued the investigation, the Department identified Mr. Hur for appointment as Special Counsel.
This morning [January 12, 2023], President Biden’s personal counsel called Mr. Lausch and stated that an additional document bearing classification markings was identified at the President’s personal residence in Wilmington, Delaware. [More]
The timeline doesn’t make sense. What was the FBI and John Lausch doing for two months? Something is not adding up.
If the FBI began investigating on November 9th, and USAO Lausch began investigating on November 14th, then why were Joe Biden’s lawyers informing Laush of additional classified documents found in Delaware on December 20th? Why did the FBI and Lausch not find them?
Why were Joe Biden’s Lawyers informing USAO Lausch, on January 12th, about the third batch of classified documents? Again, where was the FBI and John Lausch?
Also, you don’t appoint a Special Counsel on the day it is announced. There had to be some discussion with Robert Hur in the lead up to the announcement.
We still don’t know what the classified documents were about, how old they are, or how many of them exist. The only thing confirmed is the documents pertain to the timeline of the Obama-Biden administration which was January 2009 through January 2017.
The Penn-Biden Center didn’t exist until 2018, so where were the classified documents between the time they were taken and the time they were discovered in the office.
As Vice President Joe Biden had no authority to declassify government documents and could not possess classified documents.
Me and Suspicious Cat remain, well, suspicious…
First time ever an interviewee can legitimately answer questions with “I do not recall.”
Or he said I just filled my diaper and the room cleared out I don’t like to swear
I believe the proper legal terminology is Habeo poopy libero or I have a poopy diaper.
Ah, but Alzheimer patients remember the past until close to their deaths. Biden may not know what happened thirty seconds ago but I assure you that he remembers back when he was a senator and VP.
I assume FJB was offered immunity before the interview began.
Immunity and ice cream.
Mint flavored Milk of Magnesia, MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM
I assume he was also offered the nape of a neck of a young, innocent child, for old times sake
Old times? That’s likely the draw at his Delaware digs… In the basement (dungeon?)
“Let’s go Brandon!”
Crooked Joe, his son Uday, his daughter, granddaughter, brothers, and his wife. This crooked family. And, the institutions protecting them. May they all eat **** and take a long walk off a short pier.
Not just Crooked, they’re Creepy as F
“…his son Uday…”
Good one.
And Joe’s brother Sashay.
Notice that the interview was done on Sunday and Monday at a time when all news attention is on the Hamas attack on Israel, so it will be just a footnote in the fake news. Now they can say that the investigation is ongoing. But we all know how this is going to end, don’t we?
That was my thought, too. How convenient that no one will pay the least bit of attention to Joe Biden’s classified document scandal – or to Robert Hur facilitating the cover-up of Biden’s classified docs scandal.
Top men.
Rich men north of Richmond.
Maybe they staged the attack on Israel to take away the attention being paid to FJB.
It’s just another “well timed” coincidence. We have to learn to trust our president a tad more….after all, this is a man that, as senator, personally planned the battle of “the Little Bighorn” for General Custer.
As do I, Sundance.
I’d hate to be the one who is tasked with transcribing Joe Biden’s gibberish
that is of course IF we ever even get a transcription from the “most transparent” admin ever
Well, they are easy to see through.
We’re told he was interviewed but what I’ve seen of his ability to answer questions. Lol. Would you have a conversation with a serial liar and expect an honest response? His mental state will eventually be used to exonerate him.
Biden’s Interview:
Hey fellas, are you kidding me?!! I said obama was the cleanest black guy and what a great president he’d make, didn’t I? What’s all this fuss about? Call Merrick OR Bobbie Hur. They’ve already cleared me. Come on fats, you know this is all for the cover story . I’m president now and I can do anything I want to. When I was told to come here, I said I want a big waffle cone of vanilla ice cream. I think this is crazy. It’s keeping me from my nap. Hey Lausch, call on a lid on this. I’m sleepy. Spurglemutz za bubsputz uh, uh…….ZZZZZZZZZZZZ.
Special Council: He’s gone to sleep. This interview is over. There won’t be another one. He’s clearly innocent. He’s GOT to be innocent, right boys?!! Right!!
The dolt living at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave has no clue whether the paper wound around the small tube next to him as Jill helps him poopie is “classified” or not.
Yeah, there’s no way dolt-boy will be able to fully and clearly answer all the questions to everyone’s satisfaction. They’ll just tell us he did.
A lot of our military went to middle east lately. Almost like they KNEW something was going to happen! Israel allowed this attack to happen. Soldiers who have worked in the area said if a cockroach, or bird approached they knew about it.
That all explains the ‘disappearing act’…
“The Penn-Biden Center didn’t exist until 2018, so where were the classified documents between the time they were taken and the time they were discovered in the office?”
The CCP was taking many pictures of them.
Just like Hillary; she didn’t actually, physically transfer docs TO CCP; she just put them on an Unsecured server that could be hacked, and sent copy to Huma, rather than the old fashioned espionage way, of leaving them at a drop.
Now we will never know if CCP “rounded up and executed” a bunch of “our” spies, because Hillary gave em up, or because Joe did.
What a horrible, not at all funny joke our Government is.
The corrupt attorney general appointed a special counsel, to look into classified documents, removed by the white house imbecile, when he was vp. It’s going to turn out to be a bogus, smoke and mirrors con job. Criminals taking care of criminals.
Wray- “He definitely broke 732 laws but no reasonable prosecutor would pursue charges because he didn’t sign a confession…er, there’s no clear evidence of intent.”
HRC redux. Not sworn testimony. Lawyers present. Poof nothing.
Special Council on Trump: Inquisition, fabrications, kangaroo court, witch trial, lynch mob.
Special Council on Biden: Simply One Big Coverup.
Let’s just call BS on this farce right now. In spite of the totally corrupt doj and equally corrupt MSM trying to force some type of parallel comparison between the Demented Fraud having classified documents he had zero right to possess, and documents PDT had every right to possess, this is nothing by eyewash
Probably a softball interview like Comey arranged for Madam Hillary in the comfort of her home without notes being taken to memorialize the conversation per protocol over afternoon tea and finger sandwiches.
Dopey Joe won’t give them anything inculpatory because he can’t even remember what he ate for breakfast on any given day, the whole thing will be declared an innocent misunderstanding and everybody will get ice cream.
. . . . . or maybe we’ll get lucky and “Commander” will attack a few FBI agents.
What a friggin’ joke.
If he wasn’t president, it would likely be a prosecution declined because of the perp’s non compos mentis, but Biden couldn’t beat the rap that way and not trigger the 25th Amendment.
Maybe he can stand on the 18th Amendment…
Say he was drunk when he took the documents 🙂
I wonder who all got immunity from this farce…like all of Hillary’s associate criminals did.
Biden gets a “Special Counselor” and Trump gets a “Special Prosecutor” and Garland denies a 2-tier justice system and pigs fly tomorrow.
special counselor status would require full disclosure as there is no “ongoing investigation” to hide behind?
the language of lawfare is a complicated business.
Joe biden. A lair, theif snd possessed papers demon.
In a nutshell.🦨
How many naked photos of Joe in front of a toilet were found with these documents?
That was Jim.
This may be the one gross thing Joe HASN’T done.
(As far as we know.)
Whoops, I should have said Frank, not Jim.
Too many Biden brothers…
Even one is too many.
The Penn Biden documents, were held in a Chinatown warehouse, if my memory is correct. I think Trump and others said that.
With all the law firms in DC, there should be plenty of secure storage facilities. But then, maybe the Bidens didn’t want too much surveillance…
And nothing will come of it.
Hur is the bandaid until the statute of limitations runs out.
Link on the Chinatown location
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11656255/Hunter-spoke-father-urging-hire-aide-helped-pack-VP-files.html
I got dizzy at all that moving. The only place they DIDN’T go was my garage…
Purely for the optics of a press release.
Ask yourself why on earth these guys would allow this info out. Either all show or an easy route out of the WH.
Yawn.
Interviewed on a Sunday ???? (and that being the day after Ham-ass slaughtered and raped Israel?
Hmmmmmm…….
Wasn’t the barbecue on Sunday also?
So no Mar a Lago type raid.
That’s all we need to know.
Here we go again, another round of misdemeanors. Followed by a quick pardon by president Harris.
First off……………..Joe had a right to possess these papers. reason why is he is Special. after all he graduated with 3 degrees and at the top of his class. He is a Democrat so we all know the laws were written for everyone else.
I mean seriously…………………..every time I hear his name my blood boils. He like Obama was is the president of some other country and is occupying the US White House. I see the many ,many crimes he has committed and zero consequences. Bribery,extortion, Theft of tax payer monies, Waste ,fraud ,abuse (towards the American people). give me a second and I’ll probably come up with a lot more. Possession of highly classified documents ,mishandling those documents , lying about everything and anything. He is for sure the #1 lying dog pony soldier.Election fraud!
Lay it all out for the Americans to see and then have them explain all their wealth and why they have ( ? ) of shell companies,and why is all these countries are sending money to them????????
This guy is so crooked he uses a corkscrew to get his pants on. He’s so bent that they probably have a secret service nickname of “Flex man” when they speak of him.
I do not even think of this clown as an AMERICAN. Everything he does and every move he makes is against the American people. Like his clean well spoken Commie buddy who pulled the exact same crap for 8 years. always against AMERICA
Agree. And I will add to note how, in similar manner, he always professes how catholic he is.
One thing is fore sure, we’re never going to know the whole story.
USAO John Lausch looks familiar. Didn’t he investigate something involving President Trump while he was in office? As I recall, Lausch’s role (in the Trump era) was providing transparency and answers to the media regarding the Trump investigation (whichever one it was). If I recall correctly, Lausch was from the Chicago U.S. Attorney’s office.
BREAKING NEWS!!! Merrick Garland comes out of his dark room with no sunlight allowed and announces he is investigating Joe Biden and his illegal possession of classified documents with a “Special” Prosecutor. All without fanfrare, raids, home invasion, etc. All announced on a weekend where many eyes are on the Middle East. What a farce the Merrick claims “we do not have a two tiered Justice System. Uh Huh.
Dear Merrick. Get a grip on what your job description is.
Garland’s HAD a grip on HIS own version of the “job” description before he was appointed AG. He’s a hack, a traitor and deserves what we used to do to those committing treason.
But the DEMonicons decidedly like traitors and put them in jobs where they can do the most damage to our country and our Constitution. See Rip Van Blinken, Moldy Millie, MuchDouble Talk Mayorkas and ALL of Biden’s crew. A worse lot of dirty crooks can only be found in hell.
And, why no mention of How many documents, or that they had been retrieved by the FBI?
Why no surprise visits to tear Biden’s office, home, etc. apart at the seams?
Why no juicy photos of files splayed out seductively on the floor?
Why is this so DIFFERENT from the other guy’s (Trumps) treatment? Trump was able to legally possess his docs, but was treated far worse.
I’m sure that when the final report comes out, it’ll say that Trump snuck in the middle of the night to Joe’s garage and put those classified documents next to Joementias corvette and then Trump will get Indicted with 100 more charges.
That’s a pretty conservative estimate there, Fred, My estimate would be around 20 THOUSAND more charges… One for every classified document they found in Jose’s possession.
“documents bearing classification markings”
Well, there’s that very specific phrase again.
“The FBI went to the location and secured those documents.”
But without the theatrical raid with CNN cameras in tow like the MAL raid. And not a single leak about what those documents were, or lies about what they were used for.
This is looking increasingly like a bag operation, trying to preempt Trump’s DOJ from prosecuting the case after he takes office again.
Investigate to Exonerate.
For the media to corroborate!
Perhaps the whole thing is simply a defensive move by FJB to eliminate the possibility of oh, I don’t know, some new president’s DOJ wanting to investigate FJB. “That’s already been, done double jeopardy etc…” Unless DOJ charges and tries, Double jeopardy doesn’t seem to wanna stick. But THAT doesn’t matter. Only the 4 second MSM sound bite matters:
Britt, the truth of the matter is, President FJB has already been investigated and cleared by the DOJ during his administration regarding misplaced documents.” “It’s a total Nothing Burger, (Brittany)”. “Thanks for clearing that up for the audience, Steve… Now back to the evening Sports—”
Poof!!— end of story for ever. It’s exactly like the home brew server.
“Cleared of any wrongdoing”
Exactly, except not a congressional investigation doing the mop work. More of an inside job.
They are just prepping the field to do a Comey job and conclude he didn’t intend to do anything wrong and that no prosecutor in their right mind would ever prosecute because his name isn’t Trump.
Edging closer and closer to the, “see justice is fair, nonbiased, and balanced, now can we get Trump”?
I know its been discussed before about the occupant not running and Gavin taking his place to run, but Biedun can’t resjgn without Harris taking over POTUS. She ain’t going to be forced out. Regardless of if Biedun runs again or not, he can’t resign and choose a successor. Or be forced out under 25th amendment without Harris getting POTUS.
Deep state had Pence if they could get Trump out, Harris is their Pence now. They may be in a pickle for the next 13 months.
This is a Monty Python skit, right? I feel like I entered the argument clinic, and the clinic is conducting the investigation.
This case started in 1/17 after VP left office. For those who don’t recall, here is a summary what happened:
Biden classified files were sent to ANOTHER D.C. location before they were stored at think tank | Daily Mail Online
I always want to know the root of things… the origin to the insanity. The point break.
Maybe we should be asking what the Biden attorneys were looking for?
We all know how much lawyers cost by the hour.
We all know that Government leadership jobs create lots of paperwork. Lots of bankers boxes when the administrator moves around.
So, #1… Biden attorneys are voluntarily revealing the existence of paperwork that shouldn’t exist within Biden records.
#2… Aren’t personal attorneys supposed to prevent incrimination of their clients?
and #3… What were Biden attorneys actually looking for when said documents were found?
You mean to tell me that there are lawyers lounging around at several hundred dollars an hour just milling around through banker boxes, desk drawers, garages and households? They’re looking for something. What was the impetus to declare “oh, $%#@, we have got to find THAT. Spare no expense and take years if you have to, but you must find THAT!”
What are they looking for and whose picking up this bill for their efforts?
Excellent point!! I like the way you think!
Yes jwoorior, and on a Sunday!
NOTHING about the “Biden Administration” is real. We’ve all known that since Nov. 4, 2020.
So why bother with any of this nonsense?
meanwhile, FBI, THE LEADING AGENCY WITH THE POWER AND THE RESPONSIBILITY TO DETECT, ARREST, IMPEDE AND TRACK INTERNATIONAL TERRORISTS, FAILED COMPLETELY IN AT LEAST THREE MAJOR world wide EVENTS:
complete and utter failure to communicate the threat of a russian invasion that any idiot with access to open source satellite data could easily observe. they let this happen and reacted with surprise when Putin issued the orders to initiate combat operations.
hamas/hezbollah attacks Israel in the largest military/terror style combat with assasinations of civilians and kidnapping and the FBI refuses to advice Israel
millions flood/invade the southern US border and not one single arrest is made or any kind of vetting against bad actors.
yeah…this is the FBI….an agency that now longer performs its mission…it’s nothing more than a political weapon of the radical anti american movement…this is the FBI acting in support of and benefit to the chinese government and I AM TIRED OF PRETENDING IT ISN’T.
God Bless America
What do we know? We know almost nothing but we may be able to make one or two assumptions.
If we acknowledge that Obama is the man over the Biden presidency then:
Everything seems to be a “presentation” of events starting with a Biden White House counsel.
There is no such animal as a Biden White House counsel! There are White House counselors representing Obama in the current administration.
We then can somewhat safely presume any initial action either benefits or shields BHO.
What records would Joe Biden have that would be of interest to BHO?
Records which either endanger BHO or be a tool for BHO to utilize against Biden?
What records would Joe Biden have squirreled away? Something for advantage, for money or for influence over others?
Did Joe Biden have compromising records on BHO?
Too many questions but what a potential for a deep dive if one could find some loose ends.
Just because he was questioned, that doesn’t mean there were answers.
do we even know that he was really questioned? They can’t be trusted to tell the truth if they can tell a lie instead.
Does anyone believe that there will be any charges against Joe for removal and unsecured storage of classified documents?
What is the point unless it is to rub Trump’s face in their power to prosecute or not on a whim merely for political advantage?
No way his lawyers would allow this unless they knew the fix was in.
Some of you young Treepers made not remember seeing this movie play out before. I will go ahead and let you know it ends.
We knew it as The White House FBI files controversy
Date Originating events: 1993–1994;
investigations: 1996–2000
Location: Washington, D.C., United States
Also known as Filegate
Outcome: Clinton, Nussbaum, and other White House officials exonerated by Independent Counsel;
Head of White House Office of Personnel Security resigned AccusedFirst Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton
White House counsel Bernard Nussbaum several other White House officials
Charges Improper use of confidential information;
Testifying falsely about White House hiring
They were simply coordinating the plan to eventually blame staffers and exonerate Joe. How they avoid framing the staffer(s) for Joe’s felonies is beyond me but they’ll do it.
The DOJ will let this be a wash. Biden will not be accountable.