Former Special Counsel Robert Hur testified to the House Judiciary Committee on Tuesday that he did not charge President Joe Biden for “willfully” retaining classified documents because he did not believe a jury would convict Biden due to his mental incapacities.
Hur’s reasoning, however, held no water with the Republicans on the Judiciary and Oversight Committees. They repeatedly noted that Biden not only knowingly illegally harbored and shared information that threatened U.S. national security but the Department of Justice imposed a double standard that favors Democrats in refusing to charge him for it.
Hur resigned from the DOJ one day before the hearing but repeatedly defended its hyperpartisan track record and his work under its authority.
“No matter the role, no matter the administration, I have applied the same standards and the same impartiality,” Hur insisted.
The evidence suggests otherwise. Unlike former President Donald Trump’s documents, which were discovered on a private, Secret Service-protected property, Hur determined that Biden’s 300-plus illegally stored classified documents from his Senate and vice presidential years were kept in “unsecured and unauthorized spaces” such as a busy public building and an easily accessible garage.
“My team and I conducted a thorough, independent investigation. We identified
evidence that the President willfully retained classified materials after the end of his
vice presidency, when he was a private citizen,” Hur admitted in the first line of his opening testimony.
Classified documents were found…
At the Penn Biden Center? “That’s correct.”
In President Biden’s garage? “Yes.”
And in his basement den?
