Watch: Rep. Matt Gaetz questions Robert Hur over Biden classified documents probe

chair now recognize the gentleman from Florida 5 minutes February 8th the White House question Mr President why did you share classified information with your ghost writer the president I did not share classified information I did not share it I guarantee I did not that's not true is it Mr her that is inconsistent with the findings based on the evidence in in my report yes it's a lie it's just what regular people would say right yeah all right so the next one and all the stuff that was in my hom

e was in filing cabinets that were either locked or able to be locked that wasn't true either was it that was inconsistent with the findings of our investigation another lie people might say right because what you put in your report was among the places Mr Biden's lawyers found classified documents in the garage was a damaged open box so here's what I'm what I'm understanding right as Mr Armstrong laid out you find in your report that the elements of a Federal Criminal violation are met but then

you apply this CI cooperator theory that because Joe Biden cooperated and the elevator doesn't go to the top floor you don't think you get a conviction and I actually think you get to the right answer in that I don't think Biden should have been charged don't think Trump should have been charged but under like the scile cooperator theory isn't it frustrating that Biden continues to go out and lie about the basic facts of the report that lay out a Federal Criminal violation Congressman I need to

disagree with at least one thing that you said which is that I found that the all of the elements were met one of the elements of the relevant mishandling statute is the intent element and what my report reflects is my judgment that based on the evidence I would not be able to prove Beyond A Reasonable Doubt to a jury that that intent element had been right but the reason you have that doubt is the is the cile cooperator theory the fact that Joe Biden is so inept and responding that you can't p

rove the intent which again I don't quibble with that conclusion but it's frustrating to be like oh well this guy's not getting treated the same way as Trump cuz the elevator's not going to the top floor so we can't prove intent while at the same time Biden goes out there at the White House and says well you know he just he just he just blatantly lies and what I'm trying to figure out is whether or not Biden's lying because he's still so senile he hasn't read your report or whether it's a little

craftier and a little more devious and perhaps a little more intentional than we might otherwise think so I I also want to go to this Biden Pen Center like did you did it give concern to you that the Biden Pen Center where all this classified stuff was being mishandled was being floated by Foreign governments Congressman we were concerned with getting to the bottom of all of the classified documents that were covered during the course of our yeah but the like what bothers me is that the money t

hat was paying for the place where the documents were being inappropriately held it was the Chinese and it was other foreign countries did would did that play into your analysis did you did you look into the billion dollars in foreign funding sources at the Biden Center upen for example Congressman we conducted a thorough impartial and fair investigation and we were very very concerned with getting to the bottom of all the relevant questions relating to the recovered did you look into the fact t

hat the Chinese were floating the place where this guy was keeping the documents unsecure yes or no Congressman to the extent that we identified evidence that was relevant and significant to our investigation we put it in our report okay it seemed relevant to Me Maybe not to you another thing that seemed relevant to me is this Ghost Rider right so the Ghost Rider purposefully deletes this evidence that seems to be like show culpability of Biden's crimes and you don't charge him why did you not c

harge the ghost riter with obstructing justice and deleting evidence well for a number of reasons that are laid out in the report but in brief Congressman yes uh when we when we interviewed the ghost riter he did tell us and I'm trying to get the exact language that one of the things on his mind one of the things he was aware of was that I had been appointed special counsel and was conducting an investig right so so so he didn't just so everybody knows the ghost riter didn't delete the recording

s just as a matter of happen stance Ghost Writer has recordings of Biden making admissions of of of crimes he then learns that you've been appointed he then deletes the information that is the evidence and you don't charge him that is reflected in the report and one of the reasons like what does somebody have to do to get charged with obstruction of justice by you if like like deleting the evidence of crimes doesn't count what would meet the standard so Congressman as we as we uh state in the re

levant chapter of the report one of the things that Mr zanzer did not delete was transcripts of the recordings that he had created that included inculpatory evidence relating to Mr B oh so if you if you destroy some evidence but not other evidence that somehow absolves you of the evidence you destroy like here's what I see zaner should have been charged wasn't Biden and Trump should have been treated equally they weren't and that is the double standard that I think a lot of Americans are concern

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