On Oct. 8, 2023, the day after Hamas savaged the people of southern Israel, President Joe Biden sat for a deposition with U.S. Attorney Robert Hur, the special counsel investigating Biden’s handling of classified material. At one point, Hur asked Biden where he kept his documents during the time he was living at Chain Bridge Road.
“This is, what, 2017, 2018, that area?” asked Biden. Hur affirmed that it was. “Remember, in this time frame, my son is either been deployed or is dying,” volunteered Biden, the first time anyone referred to his late son, Beau Biden. For the record, Beau was deployed to Iraq in 2009. A further complication, as Biden explained, was that “there were still a lot of people at the time when I got out of the Senate that were encouraging me to run [for president] in this period. …”