Testifying before Congress, former Special Counsel Robert Hur defended his February report detailing Joe Biden’s handlin
Former Special Counsel Robert Hur speaks during a hearing of the House Judiciary Committee in Washington on March 12, 2024. In a March 12 House Judiciary Committee hearing, Republicans and Democrats pressed former Special Counsel Robert Hur over his investigation into President Joe Biden’s handling of classified documents, which produced no criminal charges but raised questions about Biden’s memory.
During the March 12 hearing in Washington, Democratic lawmakers said Biden cooperated with investigators whereas Trump tried to thwart them. Republican lawmakers countered that Biden was treated differently from Trump. The release of the transcript of interviews between Hur’s team and Biden also shed new light on an exchange about Biden’s deceased son, Beau Biden.Rep. Tom McClintock, R-Calif.:"Here's the problem: Donald Trump is being prosecuted for exactly the same act that you've documented that Joe Biden committed.
Rep. Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y.:"The Hur report represents the complete and total exoneration of President Biden."dictionary says exonerate"implies a complete clearance from an accusation or charge and from any attendant suspicion of blame or guilt.", and he pointed that out during his testimony."That is not a word I use in the report and that’s not part of my task as a prosecutor," Hur said after U.S. Rep. Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash., repeated the term.
He said a prosecutor might use the term"exonerate" when there is a determination of innocence through evidence such as DNA, rather than simply a decision not to prosecute.Rep. Madeleine Dean, D-Pa.:"Your report on Page 208 says that Mr. Biden couldn't come up with the date, the year, of his son Beau Biden's death, when in fact in the transcript it shows that you asked him the month. And you know what he said Mr. Hur? He said, ‘Oh, God, May 30.
"I know there’s some attention paid to some language in the report about my recollection of events. There’s even a reference that I don’t remember when my son died. How in the hell dare he raise that? Frankly, when I was asked the question, I thought to myself it wasn’t any of their damn business," Biden said.
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