OAN’s Brooke Mallory
10:48am – Wednesday, March 13, 2024
Tuesday’s testimony before the House Judiciary Committee was provided by Special Counsel Robert K. Hur, who investigated President Biden’s possession of classified documents after he retired as vice president under former President Barack Obama. Ta.
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Mr. Hsu faced intense questioning from Republicans over his determination that there was not enough evidence to prosecute Mr. Biden. Democrats, meanwhile, criticized Biden for making disparaging comments about his mental capacity in the report. These statements included references to him as a “well-meaning old man with a poor memory” and someone whose “inabilities have diminished with age.”
Here are some key points:
Both sides launched attacks against Mr. Xu.
Certain parts of Mr. Xu’s report were not accepted by lawmakers of either party. Republicans expressed displeasure that Biden was not indicted, citing former President Donald J. Trump’s criminal indictment on charges of knowingly retaining classified national security information. Democrats, on the other hand, argued that Ho disrespected Biden’s mental competency and violated Justice Department policy.
Rep. Hank Johnson (D-Ga.) claimed that Mr. Hur intentionally provided fodder to “play out the Republican narrative that the president is too old and unfit to serve as president.” He pointed to an “animation” of Biden’s State of the Union address as evidence that this account is false.
But many social media users chimed in, saying Biden’s upbeat energy was atypical and his pupils appeared dilated, prompting him to take an Adderall pill or some other type of “upper” drug before the speech. He said it seems like it.
Johnson came under fire after forcing Herr, a former Trump political appointee, to say he is “fully committed to President Trump’s re-election so that he can be appointed to a federal judgeship or perhaps another position in the Department of Justice.” did. I acknowledge that he is a registered Republican.
“There is no place for partisan politics in my work, there is no place for partisan politics in the investigative procedures I followed, there is no place for partisan politics in the decisions I make, there is no place for partisan politics in the words of my report. There is no place for partisan politics,” Xu said. .
Meanwhile, Rep. Tom Tiffany (R-Wis.) argued that Mr. Hur was protecting Mr. Biden from what he saw as a politicized double standard by the Justice Department.
“Thank you for all you do, but unfortunately you’re part of the SS guarding the swamps here in Washington, D.C., protecting the elite. And Joe Biden is part of that. Part of the elite.” Tiffany said.
The session was largely dominated by attempts to score political points.
Other than Biden’s mental awareness, Xu’s evidence was mostly clear during the hearing. Republicans are, in the words of Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.), “the elevator doesn’t go to the top” and how Biden is a criminal who gets away with it because he’s “an old man.” emphasized. Collaborator. ”
As soon as Mr. Xu’s report was released last month, Mr. Biden’s allies tried to imply that his report exonerated the president. According to their account, Mr. Huh claimed that he was unable to gather enough evidence to prosecute the president, and that Mr. Biden was “innocent.”
Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.) sought to move forward with her assertion that Hull had exonerated the president. “I did not ‘exonerate’ him. Those words do not appear in the report,” Hoare retorted. Under questioning from both sides, he reiterated that fact over and over again.
Throughout the hearing, Mr. Huh remained motionless and rarely objected to questions from lawmakers, even when their claims contradicted what he had written or said, except to personally defend himself.
Republicans such as Rep. Jeff Van Drew (R.N.J.) used the time to draw comparisons between Mr. Biden and Mr. Trump’s improper possession of classified documents. But Mr. Xu remained silent and reiterated the report’s findings, which he said had “some important differences.”
Over the next eight months, some of the most heated debates are likely to center on the president’s age and cognitive abilities during the 2024 presidential campaign, when Biden faces Trump again.
Concerns about Biden’s age among voters of both parties have plagued him for months. At 81, he is already the oldest elected president. Although he and his supporters have downplayed such concerns, Xu’s report details the memory problems he experienced during a five-hour interview.
Republicans continued to emphasize the president’s mental cognition multiple times on Tuesday, but Mr. Xu did not discuss anything beyond what was written in the report. Meanwhile, the Democratic Party of Japan strongly disputed Mr. Xu’s claim that he was not acting politically.
“You weren’t born yesterday,” said Rep. Adam B. Schiff (D-Calif.). “You knew exactly what you were doing. It was a choice.”
Mr. Hsu’s denial that he excluded Mr. Biden will be “political gold” for the president’s opponents in the upcoming 2024 election.
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