It was, to say the least, a wild day on Capitol Hill Tuesday as Robert Hur, the special counsel who investigated the Joe Biden classified documents scandal, testified before the House Judiciary Committee as to his report's findings as well as the transcripts from his interviews with Biden that were released Tuesday.

As we reported earlier, the media spin machine was in full effect from the outset, with some attempting to rush to Biden's rescue by wrongly declaring that the transcripts proved that Biden did not forget when his son, Beau Biden, passed away, even though a quick look at the relevant parts of it clearly shows that he did in fact forget.

How completely disingenuous of you to say that. You work at @CBSNews yet you blatantly are saying something untrue. It’s why no one trusts the establishment media. pic.twitter.com/OimRsxzAN4

— Eric Pistey (@shawnpisteySC) March 12, 2024

The press were, of course, not the only ones spinning like tops to try and contain the damage they surely knew was yet to come.  The Biden White House, too, and Biden's Democrat apologists have been in overdrive since the initial release of the report in trying to craft a bogus narrative that the Hur report in totality "exonerated" Biden and did not suggest that his memory was a problem. Even more troublingly, Hur confirmed that the Biden White House did indeed pressure him to try and sanitize his report ahead of its release.

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During the hearing, Hur wasted no time in his opening statement making clear why he had a duty as special counsel to assess Biden's "state of mind" and memory during the course of his interviews with Biden, something he said "prosecutors routinely do."

But something else Hur said that should be getting more attention is what he pointed out regarding exactly who made Joe Biden's memory an issue in the first place:

Joe Biden.

Hur included receipts as he referenced the topic (bolded emphasis added by me):

My task was to determine whether the President retained or disclosed national defense information “willfully”—meaning, knowingly and with the intent to do something the law forbids. I could not make that determination without assessing the President’s state of mind. For that reason, I had to consider the President’s memory and overall mental state, and how a jury likely would perceive his memory and mental state in a criminal trial. These are the types of issues prosecutors analyze every day. And because these issues were important to my ultimate decision, I had to include a discussion of them in my report to the Attorney General. 

The evidence and the President himself put his memory squarely at issue. We interviewed the President and asked him about his recorded statement, “I just found all the classified stuff downstairs.” He told us that he didn’t remember saying that to his ghostwriter. He also said he didn’t remember finding any classified material in his home after his vice presidency. And he didn’t remember anything about how classified documents about Afghanistan made their way into his garage.

Watch:

Special Counsel Hur defends his assessment of Biden's memory in his report:

"The evidence and the president himself put his memory squarely at issue...my assessment in the report about the relevance of the president's memory was necessary and accurate and fair." pic.twitter.com/qZ36KOWeuh

— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) March 12, 2024

In short, it was Biden who did himself in on the memory issue, not Hur, something George Washington University Law School Professor Jonathan Turley also deduced from the transcripts.

In other words, Joe Biden's worst enemy in all of this has been... Joe Biden himself. Who'da thought?

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