President Joe Biden’s personal attorney said Sunday he went to both the special counsel and the attorney general to register concerns over what he viewed to be pejorative and unnecessary digs at the president’s memory.
“This is a report that went off the rails,” Bob Bauer said on CBS’ Face the Nation Sunday. “It’s a shabby work product.”
The special counsel was investigating whether the president mishandled classified documents during his previous positions as vice president and senator, and found this week that no criminal charges were warranted.
But in building his argument for why no charges were necessary, Special Counsel Robert Hur, who was appointed by Attorney General Merrick Garland, detailed in part that Biden’s defense of any potential charges could possibly be that: “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.”
Why is the AP leaving out the fact that Robert Hur, who made the report, is a Republican who was brought into the DOJ under Trump?
You would think they might find that at least a little suspicious.
Or that he’s not a psychologist or neurologist, did not administer any kind of formal cognitive examination, and is not qualified to make this kind of claim.
Not to mention that it has nothing to do with the classified documents. It’s not a normal thing for a special counsel to talk about.
They explicitly mention it and then quote someone talking about how it’s suspicious.
Oh they probably just, y’know, forgot.
Sure.