For those that haven't taken the time to read the entire Hur interview of Biden and don't trust the MSM to be completely forthright, I have some highlights.
Hur didn't raise the Beau question.
Biden is often confused about what is happening when.
The Hur transcript makes it perfectly clear that Biden is a feeble, rambling, forgetful, old man.
Throughout the transcript there are many examples, two of which I highlight below.
2009-2016
MR. HUR: … So now let's talk about the Naval
Observatory . So you’ve been living there for eight years. So at the end of your
vice presidency, what kinds of papers or documents or files were at the Naval
Observatory as you were preparing to leave and move out?
PRESIDENT BIDEN: Well, there were - - I’m trying to think
. A lot of my speeches, a lot of the initiatives I've taken, a lot of -- there
are probably some press clippings, I’m guessing. I’m trying to think what else.
Photographs. I don’t know.
MR. HUR: -- within the Naval Observatory? You
mentioned a couple of work spaces earlier.
PRESIDENT BIDEN: Well, if you're talking about anything that
was a substantive matter, classified or otherwise -- you know, the fight in the
Judiciary Committee over whether or not -- I was the guy who wrote the Violence
Against Women Act. It was -- really meant a lot to me. And so they might find
stuff on the Violence Against Women Act in one section of a drawer or in the
shelves of the library or of the Naval Observatory. Or issues, you know,
relating to -- I know it's gonna sound strange to you guys, but agriculture is
a $4 billion industry, agriculture is a $4 billion industry in Delaware and the
Delmarva peninsula, and so -- or, you know, I'd have a lot of political things
that I, I don't know where they were,
but I know I had material that -- where I, you know -- like, there's a whole,
whole bunch of stuff around about how -- what made me run for President in the
first place, and about how things were -- you know, I mean, for example, I, I
was a -- I got a job with a -- I didn't take law school very seriously, but I
won the International Tort Competition. I was in -- matter of fact, the first
time in tort class, we had a really difficult professor. I mean, very well-known,
Professor at Syracuse, and --he called on me to – you know how they do in law
school, discuss a case, you know, in your first torts class. And I had never
read the case, and I stood up and I spoke for 10 minutes. The whole class stood
up, started clapping. And he said, Mr. Biden, you'll be a hell of a trial
lawyer. He said, not a single thing you -- had to do with that. And -- but at
any rate, so --but in law school, I got in law school, and I got, believe it or
not, a job offer from some prestigious law firms. I was not sure where I wanted
to go, out west and where -- I wanted to move to Idaho, I thought, and so I was
going to go out and interview with Boise Cascade. That's all I'd really -- and
-- but I took a job with the best-known trial firm in Delaware in mostly civil
defense issues. And, and so -- and I remember a guy named XXXX , a brilliant
guy That went to Amherst and Harvard and said -- when he was interviewing me
said, in those days, you had to -- today you would be killed. You had to put
your photograph in the upper right-hand corner when you're applying for a job.
And he looked at me and said, I assume you're expecting to be hired on your
looks. And I said -- and I thought the job was over, and I said, I said, well,
it would improve the look of your firm. I mean, I was just --so anyway, to make
a long story short, they ended up offering me a job. And in Delaware, it has --
used to have the lowest pass rate in the country because we're not big on encouraging
lawyers to come and play in Delaware. It's a very tight bar. And, and so what
happened was you take the bar, you graduate, and you have to clerk for somebody
for six months. (Indiscernible 0:11:51.6). And they don't give the bar exam
until the middle of September. You don't get your results to your -- for the
bar exam until January. And, and so -- I -- but I got hired in the meantime by
this firm appropriately named Prickett, Ward, Burt Sanders. And, and t omake a
long story not quite so long, I was sitting second chair with the, with the,
with the guy who ran the firm, Prickett, Mr. Prickett, and there was a young
man who we were representing, XXXX getting – and (indiscernible 0:12:34.3)
construction company, you know, I had to turn those -- we have more oil
refineries than any -- place other than in Houston in Delaware and
Pennsylvania, (indiscernible 0:12:43.6) up in that area. And this poor kid is
down a hundred-foot vessel, chimney, scraping the hydrogen bubbles off of the
inside. They were made to shut the plant down once every --whatever, about
eight months or six months or a year, whatever it is. And he was wearing the
wrong pants, wrong jeans, and he - a spark caught fire and got caught in the
containment vessel and he lost part of his penis and one of his testicles and
he was 23 years old. And I sat through the - his presentation with the, with
the senior, and we had in Delaware, which is - the Dupont family had no
influence of course - contributory negligence. If you were slightly
contributory negligence, you were out. And so the senior partner turned to me
and said, write a memo for tomorrow, we're going to make a motion to dismiss
after presenting this case. So I did. I wrote this memo. And son of a bitch, it
prevailed. And I looked over at that kid and his wife home with two little
kids, and I thought son of a bitch, I'm in the wrong business, I'm not made for
this. And I - there was a famous club called the -- Wilmington Club -- no
blacks, Catholics are allowed -- have been allowed to be members. The DuPont
family name. And we went to a place called the Wilmington Club, and he thought
he was doing -- he said, take the lunch at Wilmington. I said -- the only time
I ever lied that I can remember looking somebody in the eye, and I mean
sincerely, I said, oh, my dad's coming in today, I was going to see -- okay. He
didn't give a damn where I went. I walked across and walked through to the
second -- the basement on a public building and walked in with a guy named
Frank and I said I want a job as a public defender. He said, don't you work for
Prickett. He said, he said, are you okay, like what the hell's the matter with
you. I quit and became a public defender. The process of that was that's what
got me – I had been involved in the civil rights movement. That got me deeply
involved in trying to reform the Democratic Party, which was a southern
Democratic Party. We were a slave state by law. We were one of the border
states so we couldn't figure -- anyway, but the Democratic Party was a conservative
party in Delaware. The DuPont family ran the Republican Party, but they were
like Rockefeller Republicans at the time. And so I got involved with a group of
people trying to reform the Democratic Party. And the whole point of telling you
all this is I had a lot of material that I kept notes on and, and when that --
where as I was taking on the Democratic Party. And they came to me and asked me
to -- this group, this new Democratic coalition -- I had, in the meantime, it's
two years down the road, I was 26 years old, And I went to work part time for a
criminal defense firm mainly, a real estate -- there were five people. And so I
was no longer a public defender because I couldn't be a public defender and
work for that firm. And one thing led to another and I joined this group to try
to reform the party. And they came to me about and I was making the case we've
just got to get more candidates to run, to -- we're not, we're not represented. And the southern part of the state
of Delaware will talk at you like this, for real, you go down -- you think I'm
joking, I'm not joking. "Damn, boy, I don't agree with a damn thing you
say," but he said, "I know where you stand, know where you
stand." That's how they talk. And it was solidly democrat, southern
democrat. We were the only state in the nation occupied by the military for 10
months with drawn bayonets at every corner when Dr. King was assassinated, and
that's really what got me going. Long story, and I'll end, because it relates
-- to maybe some of the other things you may ask about, is that I had a lot of
material that I did recent. When you're the youngest guy in the room, you get
to turn the lights on and off. And so I, I amassed a lot of material making the
case why the party had to change and, and they -- and it ended up that about 10
months in, the group from the area where I lived came to me and said they
wanted me to run for the state senate. I said, no, no, no, I can't do that. I
just -- I'm thinking of starting my own law firm and it's going to -- no, I
can't do that. And because they meet in Dover and dah, dah, dah. And then next
thing that happened was I came back about three weeks later. They said we want
-- to the office I was in at the time. I had now started my own office. And I
didn't realize no one my age ever started his own law firm. I hired two
lawyers. I had no freaking money. But I hired them and paid them more than I
was going to make, and I started this firm. And there -- I remember standing looking
out over the public and they said how about running for the county council. I
said, no, no, I can't go down. He said, they meet right across the street there
only twice a week at night. You can do this. So to make a long story short, I
ended up doing it. But I wanted to be sure that I was going to lose -- because
-- so I ran in a district that no one's ever won, a Democrat had never won. And
I won it. And next thing you know, I'm in a tough position. My generic point
was there was a lot of material that I had amassed that I wanted to save. I
probably still have it somewhere. And so that stuff would travel wherever the
hell I was --
MR. HUR: So, sir, that material that you just -- that
you remember having, again, trying to steer us back to the end of your vice presidency and focusing
on your move out of the Naval Observatory. Do you recall having these types of
things with you at the Naval Observatory and this was part of the stuff you were trying to move
out?
MR . HUR: So during this time when you were living at
Chain Bridge Road and there were documents relating to the Penn Biden Center,
or the Biden Institute , or the Cancer Moonshot, or your book, where did you
keep papers that related to those things that you were actively working on?
PRESIDENT EIDEN: Well, um .. . I , I, I, I, I don’t know .
This is, what, 2017, 2018, that area?
MR . HUR: Yes, sir.
PRESIDENT BIDEN : Remember, in this timeframe, my son is
either been deployed or is dying, and, and so it was and by the way, there were
still a lot of people at the time when I got out of the Senate that were
encouraging me to run in this period, except the President. I’m not -- and not
a mean thing to say. He just thought that she had a better shot of winning the
presidency than I did. And so I hadn’t, I hadn’t, at this point -- even though
I’m at Penn, I hadn't walked away from the idea that I may run for office again
. But if I ran again, I’d be running for President. And, and so what was
happening, though - what month did Beau die? Oh, God, May 30th –
MS. COTTON: 2015.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE SPEAKER: 2015.
PRESIDENT BIDEN: Was it 2015 he had died?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE SPEAKER: It was May of 2015.
PRESIDENT BIDEN: It was 2015.
MR . BAUER: Or I’m not sure the month, sir, but I
think that was the year.
MR. KRICKBAUM: That’s right, Mr. President. I t - -
PRESIDENT BIDEN: And what's happened in the meantime is that
as -- and Trump gets elected in November of 2017?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE SPEAKER: 2016.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE SPEAKER : '16.
PRESIDENT BIDEN: '16, 2016 . All right. So -- why do I have
2017 here?
MR. SISKEL : That’s when you left office, January of 2017 .
PRESIDENT BIDEN: Yeah, okay. But that's when Trump gets
sworn in then, January
MR. SISKEL: Right.
MR. BAUER: Right, correct.
PRESIDENT BIDEN: Okay, yeah . And in 2017, Beau had passed
and -- this is personal - - the genesis of the book and the title Promise Me,
Dad, was a -- I know you’re all -- close with your sons and daughters, but Beau
was like my right arm and Hunt was my left. These guys were a year and a day
apart and they could finish each other' s sentences, and Beau I used to go home
on the train, and in the period that I was still in the Senate - - anyway.
(Indiscernible 0: 48:27 . 6). There was pressure - - not pressure. Beau knew
how much I adored him, and I know this sounds -- maybe this sounds so everybody
knew how close we were. There was not anybody in the world who wondered whether
or not -- anyway . And so
MR. HUR: Sir, I'm wondering if this is a good time to take a
break briefly. Would that be --
PRESIDENT BIDEN: No, I -- let me just keep going to get i t
done. Anyway, here’s the deal. Beau -- I used to go home when Beau was at --
from Penn, I used to go home on the train on Fridays and always Jill and I
would go – as the crow flies, Beau and his family lived a mile from where we
lived in Delaware. And, and so I’d go home and we’d have dinner together on
Friday nights when I' d get home. And my mom, she had died, she had died.
Anyway, she had been living with us. And one night, when we were, we re having dinner,
and Jil l came on a different train, she was a little bit later. We had the
dinner and Jill said, I’m going to go home and change, which is a mile away,
and she left and -- Beau said, dad, do you have a minute. I said, sure. And he
asked his wife to take his children upstairs and -- so we could talk at the
table. And he looked at me and he said, dad, I know, I know how much you love
me, but he said, dad, and I know your tendency is if something happens, you're
just going to want to quit, you’re not going to want to be in the public eye anymore.
And he said -- I said, no, I’ll be fine. He said, dad, look at me , dad, and we
have a thing in our family, I don't know where it came from, but if you really
wanted someone to -- they’d say look at me, look at me. And I said, I 'm
looking at you, pal. He said, promise me, dad, give me your word as a Biden,
dad. Give me your word you'll not drop out. I said, Beau, I'm -- he said,
promise me, dad, God damn it, promise me, dad. You have to stay engaged. You
have to stay engaged, promise me. That's where the title of the book came from.
And so at this period of time, I’m trying to figure whether or not, when he
passes, what am I going to do other than what I’m already doing . When am I
going to run for the presidency? And in the meantime and I pretty well decided
I couldn’t handle -- I’d stay involved, I'd keep the promise I’d be involved
(indiscernible 0:51:44.3) politics. And then -- I forget the date, that’s when--
Charlottesville happened, when those folks came out of the woods carrying –
literally out of the fields carrying torches and Nazi swastikas and singing the
same damn anti-Semitic bile that was sung in Germany in the early '30s,
accompanied by the Ku Klux Klan and the head of the, of the Klan. And then a
young woman got killed, and I spoke to her mom. And that’s when I decided that
I, I , I, I, I've got to run, I've got to be involved, because I thought,
presumptuous of me, that I was the antithesis everything that, that this guy
stood for, and I was - - I could beat him. But then I got really worried what
would happen to the kids, how terrible they’d be -- he'd be with my children.
And in the meantime, I got a call from my oldest granddaughter, Naomi, who was
in her senior year at Columbia Law School, and she -- we have a tradition in
our family, a child can ask for a family meeting. It's taken seriously. I can
only think of 10 occasions it' s happened since I was a kid. But when you come,
you take it seriously. And so that was a Thursday, and on Saturday we had a
family meeting . And so I had my -- Hunt's three daughters and Beau’s two kids,
and we had a meeting in that library you saw. And, and they said, pop, you got
to run. Daddy'd want you to run, we want you to run, et cetera. And the real
kicker was, I said, well, it’s going to be mean and I don’t know girls, and my youngest
son is now a senior in high school -- grandson. He said, pop, we know it' s
going to be mean, and he opens up his cell phone and there 's a picture of me
walking out of Beau’s funeral and my hand on the casket and the flag at a military
funeral, very formal. And I had my hand a round my little son -- grandson, and
I always used to hold Beau -- when he was little, I'd hold him by the chin, you
know, when I walk. And I was holding him the same way . And he said, pop, we
know it' s going to be mean, and he shows me, he said, l ook, pop , what it
says. And I had my hand – they could see it was a military funeral , and my arm
around my grandson, and the bottom line was, Biden molests another child . He
said, but pop, you’ve got to run. Daddy’d want you to run. That’s when I
decided to run. So that’s when things began to alter in terms of my - - well, I
still -- Penn provided a vehicle for that as well, because I was a public
figure , invited other world leaders around, but that’s when everything kind of
changed in terms of what I was going to do with my life. I thought you didn’t
need to know that, but maybe it -- you know, ask questions, what am I going to
do with - -the rest of my life, that’s when I decided to run.
MR. HUR: Understood.
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