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“How in the hell dare he raise that.” — President Joe Biden, Feb. 8, 2024

In an effort to dismiss the claim that he couldn’t remember the year his son Beau died, President Joe Biden claimed he was simply angered because he was asked about it. Turns out, Biden lied.

“Frankly, when I was asked the question, I thought to myself it wasn’t any of their damn business,” Biden said at a hurriedly arranged press conference early in February.

Immediately, the media sprang into action attacking Special Counsel Robert Hur for bringing up Biden’s son.

“Beyond the pale,” they said. “A setup from the start.” “What does that have to do with the retention of classified documents?” “There is no legitimate answer for why he would do that … unless they were trying to trip him up, rattle him, gain oppo.” Etc., etc., etc.

Jill Biden even sent out a fundraising letter attacking Hur. “I can’t imagine someone would try to use our son’s death to score political points.”

Jill, who was not actually Beau’s mother, said that the day Beau Biden died from brain cancer was “forever etched” on her and Joe’s hearts.

But then last week, NBC News, to its undying credit, did something unusual for a mainstream media outlet. It tried to verify Biden’s account. And what did it find?

Biden lied, and Jill compounded the lie.

Hur didn’t bring up Beau, or ask when he died, NBC News reported. It was Biden who brought up his son – as he almost always does whenever he opens his mouth – and it was Biden who then tried to recall the year he died.

Here’s NBC News’ account of what actually happened:

Hur never asked that question, according to two people familiar with Hur’s five-hour interview with the president over two days last October. It was the president, not Hur or his team, who first introduced Beau Biden’s death, they said.

Biden raised his son’s death after being asked about his workflow at a Virginia rental home from 2016 to 2018, the sources said, when a ghost writer was helping him write a memoir about losing Beau to brain cancer in 2015. Investigators had a 2017 recording showing that Biden had told the ghost writer he had found ‘classified stuff’ in that home, the report says.

Biden began trying to recall that period by discussing what else was happening in his life, and it was at that point in the interview that he appeared confused about when Beau died, the sources said. Biden got the date — May 30 — correct, but not the year.

According to Hur’s report, Biden couldn’t “remember, even within several years, when his son Beau died.”

To make matters worse, when Biden was trying to reassure the public at his press conference that he knew full well when Beau died, he forgot another bit of information that was allegedly etched into his heart.

“I wear, since the day he died, every single day, the rosary he got from our Lady of —,” Biden said, failing to recall the name of the church.

So who cares if Biden lied about the Beau incident?

Well, as George Washington University Law School professor Jonathan Turley points out, it wasn’t just Biden saying something off the cuff. His remarks were almost certainly prepared in advance, and in any case, the White House never issued a correction. In other words, the White House aided and abetted this lie. And that is significant.

“The use of White House staff to carry out an alleged disinformation campaign can raise alleged violations of the public trust and misuse of federal staff and resources. Such allegations have been included in past articles of impeachment,” Turley notes.

Biden can, of course, clear all this up by demanding the release of the complete transcript of his interviews with the special counsel.

Remember when a whistleblower alleged that President Donald Trump had attempted to pressure Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy into investigating the Bidens for bribery? Trump immediately ordered the release of the full transcript of the call. (Despite the ambiguity in the transcript, Democrats went ahead and impeached Trump anyway.)

Biden hasn’t called for the release of the Hur transcripts, and we’d bet our last dime that he never will. And so far, nobody in the press is putting pressure on the White House or the special counsel to do so. We’d bet they never will, either.

That doesn’t mean such pressure can’t be applied. It just takes a concerted effort by the public for it to happen. So start demanding!

The public deserves to know not only who said what about Beau during that interview. It also deserves to know what Hur meant when he said that Biden couldn’t remember, even within several years, when Beau died.

More importantly, the public deserves to know just what Biden did during that interview to convince Hur that he suffered serious mental lapses.

We suspect that, if anything, Hur was being charitable to Biden, and the public would – if allowed to read or hear the full interview – immediately call on Biden’s cabinet to invoke the 25th Amendment and declare him unfit to serve as president.