Lawmakers in both parties found plenty of reasons to take issue with Hur's report.
Jeremy Herb and Marshall CohenEx-special counsel Robert Hur, who conducted the probe into President Joe Biden's handling of classified documents, is testifying at the Capitol.
Department of Justice Special Counsel Robert Hur listens during a House Judiciary Committee hearing, Tuesday March 12, 2024, on Capitol Hill in Washington.Hur won't 'exonerate' Biden - but won't call him 'senile' either "This lengthy, expensive an independent investigation resulted in a complete exoneration of President Joe Biden for every document you discussed in your report, you found insufficient evidence that the president violated any laws about possession or retention of classified materials," Jayapal said.
Democrats teased the differences between the two cases by asking Hur whether the charges against Trump in his classified documents case also applied in Biden's case. Rep. Jerry Nadler, the top Democrat on the Judiciary Committee, followed Jordan by playing his own video, a montage cut by his aides of Trump showing the former president misremembering key facts, including a clip of Trump from last year in which he incorrectly said Viktor Orbán, the prime minister of Hungary, was the prime minister of Turkey.
Hur followed Mueller's style of strictly commenting on material contained in the report, which frustrated both parties. Hur dodged GOP attempts to bash Biden's age, beyond the analysis in his report. He also declined to answer when Rep. Eric Swalwell of California, a Democratic firebrand, asked him to pledge not to seek a role in a potential second Trump administration. Lawmakers in both parties found plenty of reasons to take issue with Hur's report.
Rep. Adam Schiff, a California Democrat running for a US Senate seat, then pressed Hur about the "political firestorm" he must have known his report would create. "All I have to do when I'm caught taking home classified materials to say, 'I'm sorry, Mr. Hur, but I'm getting old. My memories not so great?'" asked Rep. Tom McClintock, a California Republican. "This is the doctrine that you've established in our laws now and it's frightening."
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