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The Justice Division is refusing at hand over the audio recording of Joe Biden's interview with particular counsel Robert Hur.
“The committees have responded with threats and escalation of legal contempt,” the DOJ wrote in a letter to Home GOP Chairman James Comer and Jim Jordan. “We urge committees to keep away from battle somewhat than search it.”
Home Oversight Chairman James Comer launched a press release Monday after the DOJ denied his committee's request for the audio recordings.
“The Biden administration is unable to find out what Congress ought to and mustn’t do with oversight of the manager department,” Comer stated. “The American folks deserve to listen to the precise audio of President Biden’s responses to Particular Counsel Hur.”
Comer stated it’s “curious” that the Biden administration is refusing to launch the audio of Biden's interview with Hur after releasing the transcript.
What we do know is that Joe Biden lied about Robert Hur elevating the problem about his useless son Beau.
The Justice Division had beforehand defended not bringing expenses towards Biden as a result of he “sympathetic, well-intentioned, aged particular person with poor reminiscence,
In line with the transcript, Joe Biden forgot when he was Vice President and doesn't keep in mind when his son Beau died.
Joe Biden attacked Robert Hur throughout an impromptu press convention in February.
“There’s additionally a reference that I don’t keep in mind when my son died. In any case, how did he dare to carry it up?” Biden instructed reporters at an earlier impromptu White Home press convention. “To be sincere, after I was requested the query, I believed to myself, it was no large deal of theirs.”
What else is Biden mendacity about? How dangerous was his reminiscence throughout his two-day interview with Robert Hur?
“We are going to reply to the Justice Division shortly,” Comer stated.
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The Biden administration is unable to find out what Congress is and isn’t required to do with oversight of the manager department.
The American folks deserve to listen to the precise audio of President Biden's responses to Particular Counsel Hur.
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– Rep. James Comer (@RepJamesComer) 8 April 2024
Particular counsel Robert Hur testified earlier than Congress over two days final month over Biden's interview over the stolen categorized paperwork scandal.
Robert Hur launched a 345-page report on his investigation of the stolen categorized paperwork in February.
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Biden's stolen categorized paperwork have been scattered all over the place in broken cardboard packing containers and open drawers on the Penn Biden Middle. The paperwork have been additionally available in Biden's Delaware storage and basement den.
Robert Hur discovered that Joe Biden “knowingly withheld” categorized info, nevertheless, he selected to not cost him. Hur stated there was proof that Biden saved the categorized notebooks, “figuring out that he didn’t have permission to take action.”
Biden was not charged, though he knowingly retained SCIF-designated categorized paperwork and shared the fabric together with his ghostwriter, Mark Zvonitzer.
In line with Robert Hur, in 2017, Joe Biden had his ghostwriter learn categorized passages about conferences within the Scenario Room “verbatim on a minimum of three events” – and Biden was nonetheless not charged.
“We additionally thought-about whether or not Mr. Biden knowingly disclosed nationwide protection info to his ghostwriter by having the ghostwriter learn sure categorized pocket book excerpts nearly verbatim on a minimum of three events,” the report stated.
Biden was not charged with having his ghostwriter learn categorized info as a result of jurors might conclude that his actions have been “unintentional.”