Didn’t we already know this? Almost exactly a month ago, special counsel Robert Hur released his report on the investigation into Joe Biden’s illegal retention of classified material in his home and office. Hur declined to charge Biden with a crime, explaining that a jury would be unlikely to convict an elderly man with memory loss so profound that he couldn’t even recall the year his eldest son died.
Biden and the White House accused Hur of using Beau Biden to set him up. The media accused Republicans of “salivating” and “pouncing,” and excoriated Hur for politiciizing the report. But not too long after that, leaks from those who saw the transcripts made it clear that Biden brought up Beau, not Hur. And Biden used him in the way Biden always uses Beau — as a shield, a point ABC News confirms this morning after reading the transcripts:
During a line of questioning about Biden’s…
