President Joe Biden delivered a gaffe-filled speech in a prime-time press conference Thursday night where he peddled a series of lies debunked by Special Counsel Robert Hur.
Hours earlier, the special counsel published a nearly 400-page report outlining the conclusions of a year-long investigation into President Biden’s mishandling of classified documents. Prosecutors declined to charge the president in part because Biden is an “elderly man with a poor memory.”
“It would be difficult to convince a jury that they should convict him by — by then a former president well into his eighties — of a serious felony that requires a mental state of willfulness,” Hur’s team wrote. Biden reportedly forgot when he was vice president and struggled with the timeline of his son’s death, “even within several years.”
Here are 4 lies the president shared throughout the 30-minute speech.
1. Biden Says He Did Not Share Classified Info with His Ghostwriter
Biden vehemently denied ever having shared classified material with his ghostwriter, Mark Zwonitzer, who worked with the president on two memoirs. The bombshell report from a special counsel investigation, however, said Biden’s “disclosure of classified information from his notebooks to his ghostwriter risked serious damage to America’s national security.”
Biden: “I did not share classified information with my ghostwriter. I did not. Guarantee you did not.”
The Special Counsel report stated Biden’s “disclosure of classified information from his notebooks to his ghostwriter, risked serious damage to America’s national security.” pic.twitter.com/zcYLFVHleP
— Greg Price (@greg_price11) February 9, 2024 2. Biden
