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For months, Democrats in Congress and the media have attacked Hur for
his report that the president came across as an “elderly man with a poor memory.”
Anyone who watched the debate can understand.
from
https://jonathanturley.org/2024/06/28/robert-hur-emerges-as-the-clear-winner-in-the-presidential-debate/
Robert Hur Emerges as the Clear Winner in the Presidential Debate
The presidential debate last night was chilling to watch as President
Joe Biden clearly struggled to retain his focus and, at points, seemed hopelessly confused. The winner was clear: Special Counsel Robert Hur.
For months, Democrats in Congress and the media have attacked Hur for
his report that the president came across as an “elderly man with a poor memory.” Hur concluded that prosecuting Biden would be difficult because
a jury would view him as a sympathetic figure of a man with declining
mental capabilities. That was evident last night and the question is
whether a man who was too diminished to be a criminal defendant can
still be a president for four more years.
Hur laid out evidence that President Biden had unlawfully retained and mishandled classified evidence for decades. However, he also concluded
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 found that “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.”
What has followed is the usual pile-on in the media with legal analysts,
press, and pundits denouncing Hur for his findings.
Hur likely does not anticipate any apologies even as commentators on CNN
and MSNBC admit that there are now unavoidable questions of Biden’s
ability to be the nominee.
Democrats have repeatedly insisted that Hur did not find Biden
diminished and that he actually was impressed by his memory and mental
acuity. Hur contradicted that in his own testimony before Congress.
Indeed, the denial campaign took on a bizarre character, particularly
when Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D., Wash.) insisted that Hur “exonerated”
Biden. Hur pushed back:“I need to go back and make sure that I take note
of a word that you used, ‘exoneration.’ That is not a word that is used
in my report and that is not a part of my task as a prosecutor.”
Jayapal shot back, “You exonerated him.”
Hur responded, “I did not exonerate him. That word does not appear in
the report.”
The debate also further undermines the ridiculous effort of the Biden Administration to continue to withhold the audiotape of the Hur
interview as privileged (despite saying that the transcript is not
privileged).
The debate showed not only what Hur saw but why the Justice Department
is making a clearly laughable privilege claim to delay any release of
the audiotape until after the election.
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