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Fox News
22-05-2025
- Politics
- Fox News
Ex-Biden DOJ official slams Democratic Party for 'lying to everyone,' blasting cabinet over Hur report
A former Department of Justice official, Xochitl Hinojosa, called out members of the Democratic Party on Tuesday for "lying to everybody" about former President Joe Biden when it came to Robert Hur's report, which was dismissed as "gratuitous" at the time. "I was at the Justice Department at the time when we released the Hur report, and he was, the entire White House infrastructure at the time, was calling the report gratuitous, and said that Rob Hur should have never called him 'a well-meaning elderly man with a poor memory.' And every Democratic pundit, many reporters, were out there saying that it was inappropriate for Rob Hur to say that. And the reality is, the whole reason why he put that in is because it was his whole reason not to prosecute," Hinojosa, who worked as the Director of Public affairs at the DOJ, said during CNN's "NewsNight." Audio from Hur's interview with Biden was released on Friday, and showed the former president struggling with words and key memories during the interview. Axios reporter Alex Thompson was on the panel as well to discuss the reporting about the former president from his new book, "Original Sin: President Biden's Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again," which he published with CNN host Jake Tapper. "So it's really infuriating to hear this happening in the Spring of 2024, around the time that the Hur report was released and certain aspects in Alex and Jake's reporting really talk about the timeframe being Fall of 2023, whenever he did his interview with Rob Hur, as well as early 2024, when was the release of the report. And so it's just, it's really frustrating, I think as a Democratic Party, hearing now that they were lying to everybody, and not only were they lying to everybody, but they were bashing their own cabinet when it came to the Hur report," Hinojosa added. Biden officials such as Karine Jean-Pierre and Ian Sams, as well as former Vice President Kamala Harris and former DHS Secretary Mayorkas, deemed the Hur report "gratuitous" after it was released, because Hur declined to charge the former president over the mishandling of classified documents due to his memory lapses. "The reality is, that report, that part of the report does not live in reality. It just doesn't, it is gratuitous," Jean-Pierre said at the time, responding to a question about Biden's memory. "It is unacceptable and it does not live in reality." Democratic Reps. Ro Khanna, Jamie Raskin, and Daniel Goldman also deemed the report unnecessary and gratuitous at the time. Audio from the interview showed that Biden admitted he kept documents about Afghanistan for "posterity's sake." When asked about a classified document on Afghanistan found at his lake house, Biden said at first he wasn't sure how the document got there, but then admitted, "I guess I wanted to hang on to it for posterity's sake."
Auto Car
15-05-2025
- Automotive
- Auto Car
Toyota bZ4X Touring is rugged electric wagon you can take off road
Toyota has revealed a stretched, off-road focused variant of its bZ4X electric SUV, that brings more space and more power. The bZ4X Touring will arrive in the UK next spring, and – as the name suggests - it is a off-tarmac estate version of the three-year-old EV, which adds 140mm in length, 20mm in height, and a host of rugged design elements. Clearly a sibling of the new Subaru Trailseeker - which both use the same e-TNGA platform – the Touring gets more boot space than its standard SUV sibling, increased by 148 litres (or 33%) to 600 litres. This takes it above the likes of the similarly sized Volkswagen ID 5 and BYD Sealion 7 to make it one of the most cavernous on the electric car market. What's more, thanks to Subaru's push for the Trailseeker to feature two identical motors on either axle for better off-road balance (going against Toyota's previous philosophy of a bigger rear motor) the new Touring outputs 376bhp, up from the SUV's 338bhp. This cements it as the most powerful electric Toyota available. A 221bhp single-motor setup is also offered. Power for that is drawn from a new 74.4kWh (net) battery, up from the recently updated car's 73.1kWh pack. A range figure has yet to be given, but the standard car offers up to 318 miles in its most efficient form. Visually, the Touring is more of a rugged proposition to the standard SUV. While adopting the new front-end look of the recently updated bZ4X SUV, the coupé adopts the Trailseeker's thicker rear light bar and chunkier rear bumper. It also gains roof rails, blackened wheel arches and an exclusive Brilliant Bronze paint job. Inside, the Touring adopts the same interior as the recently updated bZ4X, which features a new centre console and 14.0-inch infotainment screen. For the Touring, a City Moss colour has been added.
