WASHINGTON TIMES
In Thursday’s hastily scheduled mini-press conference after a damning report about his handling of classified documents, President Biden made several claims that were false — so false that even CNN had to whip up a story about it.
In the session, Mr. Biden sought to clarify the circumstances surrounding his handling of classified documents found in his private residence and a personal office. But he dismissed several findings in the report by special counsel Robert Hurthat are, in fact, true.
Mr. Biden emphasized the differences between the handling of his classified documents versus those of former President Donald Trump, indicating that his documents were better secured in lockable filing cabinets.
However, this claim has been declared inaccurate. The special counsel’s report noted that, while some documents were indeed found in locked cabinets at Mr. Biden‘s Delaware residence, others were discovered in an unsecured and damaged box in the garage. The box reportedly contained a mix of commonplace items and classified information, the latter including documents about Afghanistan.
Mr. Hur wrote that Mr. Biden “should have known” that as a private citizen in 2017, “he was not permitted to keep handwritten notes about the President’s Daily Brief and other classified information in unlocked drawers in his home…
