The more than 300-page report was signed by the special counsel Robert Hurthe man chosen by the Attorney General a year ago Merrick Garland to investigate the misuse of classified information Joe Biden during his time as vice president of Barack ObamaHe saw no reason to press charges against him. But it contained some damning words for the current occupant of the White House’s ambitions when it comes to running for re-election on November 5th.
For example, the prosecutor who served at the Justice Department during Donald Trump’s administration claims that Biden “did not remember when his son Beau died, even in several years.” He also claims that the president’s memory “appears to have significant limitations had”. Gasoline for the Republicans who rushed to call for his dismissal through constitutional means.
In a letter accompanying the report, a White House lawyer wrote: Richard Cleanand a personal lawyer for Biden, Bob Bauer, they have already refuted Hur’s words. And Biden, for his part, publicly attacked the prosecutor’s conclusions. “How the hell dare you bring that up? “Honestly, when they asked me the question, I thought it was none of their business,” he said, alluding to the question about his son’s death during one of the interrogations.
The President is not alone, and this is what a number of officials of his administration and figures of the Democratic Party wanted to demonstrate, who in the last hours have defended their leader, who today is the only figure in the party with the possibility of stopping Trump’s return. The first to do so was the vice president Kamala Harriswho from the White House denounced the report submitted by the prosecutor of South Korean descent, which he called “gratuitous, inaccurate and inappropriate” considering the moment in which Biden’s interrogation took place, two days after the Hamas attack on Israel.
“The way the President’s conduct was described in this report could not be more factually incorrect and clearly politically motivated,” criticized Harris, a former prosecutor in the state of California. “And that’s why I want to say that when it comes to the role and responsibilities of a prosecutor in a situation like this, we should expect a higher level of integrity than we’ve seen.”
In another press conference, the spokesman for the White House Counsel’s Office said: I’m Sams, accused Hur of making “baseless comments” that “went beyond the authority of a prosecutor.” “Republicans in Congress and elsewhere have attacked prosecutors who don’t do what Republicans want politically. “They invented a two-tier justice system, between Republicans and Democrats,” said Sams, who referred to the opinion he expressed during his appearance Eric Holderwho served as attorney general under President Obama had said Hur’s report contained “too many unnecessary comments and was completely inconsistent with Justice Department traditions.”
“This reality creates a lot of pressure and in this pressurized political environment, when the inevitable conclusion is that the facts and evidence do not support allegations, one wonders why this report spends time leveling unfounded and inappropriate criticism of the President “he concluded spokesman for the Office of the White House Counsel.
Andrew WeissmanDeputy Director of the FBI under George W. Bush and Assistant Attorney General, transferred the MSNBC that in his opinion the prosecutor exceeded his duties after verifying that there were no grounds to bring charges against Biden. The report was “unfortunately … a repeat of James Comey,” Weissman said, referring to the former FBI director whose investigation into Hillary Clinton’s use of private emails for government business benefited the Clinton campaign. Trump in the 2016 election. “This is clearly a partisan coup,” he emphasized.
“I think this is salvageable (for Biden) because it happened in February.” If it had happened in July, maybe not. They have to find a way to deal with this issue (of age) more effectively,” a Democratic White House official, who preferred not to reveal his identity, told Axios. However, in private conversations reported by the American press, many members of the Democratic Party became increasingly concerned about Biden’s missteps but appeared resigned to the 81-year-old being their candidate.