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Fact check: Biden makes three false claims about his handling of classified information
CNN ^ | Fri February 9, 2024 | By Daniel Dale

Posted on 02/09/2024 7:44:35 PM PST by 11th_VA

President Joe Biden gave a press conference Thursday night after the release of a report from special counsel Robert Hur …

Biden was combative, forcefully rejecting Hur’s claims that he has a poor memory. But the president was also repeatedly inaccurate, making the claims that were clearly contradicted by Hur’s report.

(1)Where the classified material was stored

… Biden embellished his argument with a false claim.

Biden said: “All the stuff that was in my home was in filing cabinets that were either locked or able to be locked.”

Facts First: The special counsel’s report says … classified documents, about Afghanistan, were found in an “unsealed” and “badly damaged” box sitting in his garage alongside an assortment of other items …

(2)The classification level of the documents Biden had in his possession

Biden claimed of the documents he possessed: “None of it was high classified …”

Facts First: Biden’s claim that none of the classified material found in his possession was highly classified is false, according to details provided by the special counsel. Hur reported the discovery of documents in Biden’s possession that had markings identifying them as “Top Secret/Sensitive Compartmented Information,” a very high level of classification …

(3)What Hur said Biden said to his ghostwriter

Hur said in the report that Biden disclosed classified material from his notebooks to the ghostwriter, Mark Zwonitzer, who worked with him on a 2017 memoir …But Biden categorically denied that he had shared classified information with the ghostwriter ...

Facts First: Biden’s claim is false. Hur did say that “Mr. Biden shared information, including some classified information, from those notebooks with his ghostwriter.” … “reading “nearly verbatim” from his notebooks “on at least three occasions,” including his “notes from meetings in the Situation Room.”

(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...


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Wow - CNN - somebody pinch me …
1 posted on 02/09/2024 7:44:35 PM PST by 11th_VA
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To: 11th_VA

So the President of the United States is a senile serial liar who knowingly mishandled highly classified material. And the only reason he’s not being prosecuted is because he’s senile.

This is absolutely terrifying.

L


2 posted on 02/09/2024 7:47:24 PM PST by Lurker ( Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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To: 11th_VA

no way would the leftist fascist propaganda media go after Biden like they’ve done unless they had received new marching orders from the deep state ... period ...


3 posted on 02/09/2024 7:47:38 PM PST by catnipman (A Vote For The Lesser Of Two Evils Still Counts As A Vote For Evil)
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To: Lurker

Unbelievable.


4 posted on 02/09/2024 7:50:54 PM PST by Mark17 (Retired USAF air traffic controller. Father of USAF Captain & pilot. Both bitten by the aviation bug)
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To: 11th_VA

If CNN is telling the truth, it’s part of a plan and Biden is toast.


5 posted on 02/09/2024 7:51:54 PM PST by MV=PY (The Magic Question: Who's paying for it?)
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To: Lurker

Then we have to ask who is really running his government?


6 posted on 02/09/2024 7:51:59 PM PST by Dog (..."I'm just a cook....")
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To: 11th_VA

CNN must be worried Biden will lose the election and want him replaced with someone else.


7 posted on 02/09/2024 7:53:13 PM PST by FreedomForce
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To: 11th_VA

Leave Joe alone cnn...he’s so beatable in Nov. Then again I’m not sure anyone can stop the Trump Train at this point even if they switch Joe out.


8 posted on 02/09/2024 7:53:58 PM PST by toddausauras (Trump Lake 2024....Go down swinging!)
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To: 11th_VA

CNN fact checking bidet?

The long knives are out.


9 posted on 02/09/2024 7:55:08 PM PST by Uncle Miltie (Objective: Permanently break the will of the population to ever wage war again.)
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To: MV=PY

I agree-

They waited to see what Haley would do...

LOSING by more than 30 points to NOBODY!- that
settled the race- Trump leading in just about Every
demographic they can make up—m time to get someone new
and screw the clueless one-

But who?? Kamal Toe?
Hitlerly?

MOOCHELE?

inquiring minds want to know— HA Ha


10 posted on 02/09/2024 8:00:09 PM PST by mj1234
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To: 11th_VA

The DNC needed an “out” and it appears this report is going to be it. No way they were going to let Brain Dead Joe run again.

The enemedia have been given their marching orders to harp on this and they are.


11 posted on 02/09/2024 8:03:57 PM PST by radu (God bless our military men and women, past and present)
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BTW—

Was traveling out of the country for vacation-

got to talking to our waiter -

He asked if we liked biden (we laughed)-

Then said :”Me and some of my friends call out
our clueless friends- what are you doing
biden!!”

When they screw up an order or do something dumb-

Pretty funny—NO ONE is being fooled by the U.S.
media — on trying to protect biden


12 posted on 02/09/2024 8:07:38 PM PST by mj1234
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To: 11th_VA

Daniel Dale will certainly be looking for another job soon.


13 posted on 02/09/2024 8:40:23 PM PST by Brown Deer
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To: 11th_VA

This is the Obama cabal pulling CNNs strings. Same as they do Potato Joe’s.
The Obama cabal’s current plan is to oust Potato at the Dems Convention. To install Mooch to run vs Trump. Mooch will be dragooned into doing this. She will be promised that as President, no heavy lifting, you just serve as figurehead. That she gets two hours daily to work out. Which is all she cares about these days.

Also that that Juneteenth will be a weeklong White House celebration. And that she can appoint her favorite soul food chef to be the top White House chef.


14 posted on 02/09/2024 8:55:01 PM PST by dennisw (Be positive. Every day is a new day!)
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CNN is dumping on LGB.

Looks like the prog are not waiting until he ‘wins’ the caucuses to drop him out of the race.

All that is left is the replacement.

Grusom, Wipner, Big Mike... hard to say.

.


15 posted on 02/09/2024 9:01:52 PM PST by TLI (ITINERIS IMPENDEO VALHALLA)
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To: 11th_VA

Too incompetent to stand trial.

Just right to be Commander in Chief.

“Bombs away, boys! First we nuke Tucker Carlson’s house then we take out, oh, you know, the Soviet Union guy.”


16 posted on 02/09/2024 9:40:58 PM PST by TigersEye (Our Republic is under seige by globalist Marxists. Hold fast!)
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To: TigersEye

Law breakers are tried on what they have done, not on what they remember!😟

That being the case, every criminal would have very short memories!🤔


17 posted on 02/09/2024 10:45:04 PM PST by justme4now (Our Right's are God given and I don't need permission from politicians or courts to exercise them!)
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To: justme4now

Lacking the mental competence to stand trial is a valid legal claim under the law and has been for a very long time.

The defense does have to prove it though.


18 posted on 02/10/2024 12:05:13 AM PST by TigersEye (Our Republic is under seige by globalist Marxists. Hold fast!)
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To: Brown Deer

“Daniel Dale will certainly be looking for another job soon”

Certainly what he wrote had Editor approval. He may get some heat from the average low IQ Dem. But not the people that matter and want resident Magoo out of the way.


19 posted on 02/10/2024 1:38:58 AM PST by DAC21
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To: 11th_VA

If cnn is correctly reporting facts and not doing their usual cover job for dementia Joe, then the time is near when the dems ditch their useful idiot.


20 posted on 02/10/2024 4:07:51 AM PST by Joe Boucher (Kimber .45 Be Kind.)
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