The Whole Truth and Nothing but the Truth

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Finally, an important piece of the report released by special counsel Robert Hur tells a different story than the Biden administration was trying to sell in their recent press conference over it. They kept emphasizing the report saying no charges will be brought and therefore seeming to conclude that Joe Biden did nothing wrong with the classified documents he had. Granted, White House counsel spokesman Ian Sams did encourage reporters asking many questions about the report to, "Read the report." But the way that the White House was spinning the conclusions was a bit misleading. In fact, it was more than misleading. The report did not say Biden was not guilty of a crime. What it said was, "No charges will be brought against Biden." If you only read that part, or only focus on that part, you can spin the idea that nothing wrong happened. What Robert Hur actually concluded in this regard was that it would be difficult to get a conviction and therefore no charges would be filed. But not because Biden wasn't guilty of actually committing a crime according to their findings. In the report it read verbatim, "We have also considered that, at trial, Mr. Biden would likely present himself to a jury, as he did during our interview of him, as a sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory." He went on to say, "Based on our direct interactions with and observations of him, he is someone for whom many jurors will want to identify reasonable doubt. It would be difficult to convince a jury that they should convict him — by then a former president well into his eighties — of a serious felony that requires a mental state of willfulness." In other words, Hur is saying he believes Biden committed a serious felony and that Biden did do it willingly. Or, more importantly, that he believes this is likely the case. Anyone is innocent until proven guilty in a court of law, and I will reflect that opinion in my own commentary. The point of this post is not to attempt to shed Joe Biden in a bad light or even to accuse him of anything. It is to illustrate how the news media and the administration will twist the truth as much as they can in order to convey a message that does not necessarily tell the whole truth. As Americas weigh in on the election as it draws nearer, I continue to believe that we cannot trust the media. We have to dig deeper into anything they try to tell us. Regarding Trump, or regarding Biden. In other words, we can't just take anyone's word for it. The truth is always somewhere in the middle. And I think it is more important than ever to actually look for it. Because few people have a desire to tell it to you. They are not necessarily lying all the time. They are simply picking out the pieces that they want you to see to draw a conclusion they have painted for you. We always say, "We want voters to be informed." The problem is that many voters are only informed by the media, and unfortunately the information presented by the media is not necessarily the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. Robert Hur's report and the way it is being "reported" on is simply another example of that, that I feel is important to point out.