4 Lies Joe Biden Spouted Off In Angry Special Counsel Press Conference

President Joe Biden delivered a gaffe-filled speech in a prime-time press conference Thursday night where he peddled a series of lies debunked by Special Counsel Robert Hur.

Hours earlier, the special counsel published a nearly 400-page report outlining the conclusions of a year-long investigation into President Biden’s mishandling of classified documents. Prosecutors declined to charge the president in part because Biden is an “elderly man with a poor memory.”

“It would be difficult to convince a jury that they should convict him by — by then a former president well into his eighties — of a serious felony that requires a mental state of willfulness,” Hur’s team wrote. Biden reportedly forgot when he was vice president and struggled with the timeline of his son’s death, “even within several years.”

Here are 4 lies the president shared throughout the 30-minute speech.

1. Biden Says He Did Not Share Classified Info with His Ghostwriter

Biden vehemently denied ever having shared classified material with his ghostwriter, Mark Zwonitzer, who worked with the president on two memoirs. The bombshell report from a special counsel investigation, however, said Biden’s “disclosure of classified information from his notebooks to his ghostwriter risked serious damage to America’s national security.”

2. Biden Says Classified Documents Were Secured Within His Home

The president sought to distinguish his own case from charges levied against former President Donald Trump, who faces a 40-count indictment over allegations of mishandling classified documents. Prosecutors said the documents at Mar-a-Lago were recklessly stored and were discovered in the “ballroom, a bathroom and shower, and office space, his bedroom, and a storage room.”

“All the stuff that was in my home was in filing cabinets that were either locked or able to be locked,” Biden told reporters Thursday.

Hur’s report, however, said investigators found classified documents in the “garage, offices, and basement den” of Biden’s Delaware home.

“And the place where the Afghanistan documents were eventually found in Mr. Biden’s Delaware garage — in a badly damaged box surrounded by household detritus — suggests the documents might have been forgotten,” Hur’s report noted.

3. Biden Insists His Memory ‘Is Fine’

Biden insisted to reporters his memory is fine” in the same press conference that he confused the “president of Mexico” with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi when responding to a question about the situation in Gaza.

Biden also angrily fought back allegations that he confused the timeline of his son’s death, Beau, who died of brain cancer in 2015.

“I don’t need anyone to remind me when he passed away,” Biden said.

The facts and circumstances surrounding Beau’s death have become one of the president’s most routinely botched lines in speeches across the country that even cable news commentators have repeated the false claim.

4. Biden Says None Of The Records Found In His Possession Were ‘High Classified’

The president denied any of the material found at his Delaware residence were “high classified.” The special counsel report, however, made clear that documents were discovered with “classification markings up to the Top Secret/Sensitive Compartmented Information Level.”

Tristan Justice is the western correspondent for The Federalist and the author of Social Justice Redux, a conservative newsletter on culture, health, and wellness. He has also written for The Washington Examiner and The Daily Signal. His work has also been featured in Real Clear Politics and Fox News. Tristan graduated from George Washington University where he majored in political science and minored in journalism. Follow him on Twitter at @JusticeTristan or contact him at [email protected]. Sign up for Tristan’s email newsletter here.