President Joe Biden is not very happy with his mainstream liberal media friends for not being anything and everything but adoring over the aging President. So much so that the White House wrote a letter Tuesday to the White House Correspondents’ Association making its frustration over recent press coverage regarding Special Counsel Robert Hur’s report known.
CNN reported on the letter in which Ian Sams, spokesperson for the White House Counsel’s Office wrote: “covering the report is challenging,” given that it is “nearly 400 pages long” and “not straightforward.” Hur’s references to Biden’s mental acuity, he acknowledged, have stolen attention from the crux of the matter, writing that Hur’s “wrong and inappropriate personal comments have distracted from due attention to the substance.”
“But those facts stress the importance of careful, patient coverage,” Sams wrote. “Instead, many outlets have reported striking inaccuracies that misrepresent the report’s conclusion about the President, and reporters in the White House Briefing Room have asked questions that include false content or are based on false premises.”
The letter also expressed discontent with the press for reporting Hur’s report as conclusively finding that Biden “willfully” mishandled classified material, saying the actual report in its entirety is not so clear.
In his executive summary, Hur did state the investigation “uncovered evidence that President Biden willfully retained and disclosed classified materials after his vice presidency when he was a private citizen.” But, importantly, Hur then went on to write, “We conclude that the evidence does not establish Mr. Biden’s guilt beyond a reasonable doubt” the letter notes.
CNN reports:
Sams further argued that the evidence referenced by Hur in the executive summary introducing the report were later cast into question by Hur himself. For instance, regarding the Afghanistan documents, Hur wrote, “While it is natural to assume that Mr. Biden put the Afghanistan documents in the box on purpose and that he knew they were there, there is in fact a shortage of evidence on these points.”
Regarding his personal diaries, Hur wrote, “The evidence does not show that when Mr. Biden shared the specific passages with his ghostwriter, Mr. Biden knew the passages were classified and intended to share classified information.”
Indeed, the lengthy report is littered with Hur sharing plausible explanations for Biden’s behavior that rebut the notion he intentionally broke the law.