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babylonsister

(172,759 posts)
Fri Feb 9, 2024, 10:29 AM Feb 2024

A Partisan Hit Job

https://politicalwire.com/2024/02/09/a-partisan-hit-job/

A Partisan Hit Job
February 9, 2024 at 9:19 am EST By Taegan Goddard


Dan Pfeiffer: “Robert Hur is described in press reports as a ‘well-respected U.S. attorney,’ and maybe he once was, but this report is a partisan hit job. He swerves out of his lane to drive a negative narrative about Biden, the same message the Republican Party uses against Biden. In the report, Hur generously describes memory lapses from others but hammers Biden for the same.”

“It’s hard to read the report and not think that, without the ability to charge Biden with a crime, Hur wanted to damage him politically.”
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True Blue American

(18,579 posts)
3. I do agree!
Fri Feb 9, 2024, 10:43 AM
Feb 2024

The same thing James Comey did. His personal opinion should never appeared.
Hur could not find any prosecutable evidence so tried excuse with his opinion.

I am glad the President explored in anger and proved himself with a Press Conference that. Showed his memoirs fine except for names. I have had that problem all my life, but ask me about the songs I learned years ago I can repeate the song just fine.

videohead5

(2,950 posts)
2. If Hur lies about
Fri Feb 9, 2024, 10:42 AM
Feb 2024

President Biden willfully retaining classified documents then chances are he exaggerating or is lying about something else in the report. Later in the report it states that there is no evidence that President Biden willfully retained classified documents. Hur also talks about Biden's memory 7 years ago when he was talking to his ghost writer for a book. This stinks to high heaven.

 

JohnSJ

(98,883 posts)
4. Yes, he contradicted himself. I think Hur has a memory problem, and the MSM has a retention problem how they
Fri Feb 9, 2024, 10:47 AM
Feb 2024

selectively pick and choose

Bucky

(55,334 posts)
5. Hur was hired to investigate, but throws in these unsubstantiated editorials.
Fri Feb 9, 2024, 10:48 AM
Feb 2024

Yet more proof that any Republican who can't roundly disavow loyalty to Trump suffers from character flaws that make them unfit for office.

Bucky

(55,334 posts)
13. Poppycock
Fri Feb 9, 2024, 12:16 PM
Feb 2024

He had no choice about releasing that report. You have no way of knowing his motives any more than Hur could've known Biden's

ScratchCat

(2,740 posts)
10. I'm in the camp
Fri Feb 9, 2024, 11:52 AM
Feb 2024

That Hurr has to be fired. Garland needs to call a press conference and explain that Hurr violated DOJ protocol and that he(Garland) made a mistake in appointing him. Otherwise, it looks like Garland was "in on it" as there was no actual reason to appoint a "special counsel" over the documents that Trumpers in the DOJ suggested Biden and Pence would likely have in their possession(and that IS how this started as an attempted cover or Trump).

HariSeldon

(541 posts)
14. I think we need a DOJ OIG investigation
Fri Feb 9, 2024, 12:36 PM
Feb 2024

Did Hur use government funds for political ends? Apparently, Republicans are good with the idea of investigating the investigators.

Cha

(319,067 posts)
22. "It's hard to read the report and not think that, without the ability to charge Biden with a crime, Hur wanted to damage
Fri Feb 9, 2024, 10:33 PM
Feb 2024
“It’s hard to read the report and not think that, without the ability to charge Biden with a crime, Hur wanted to damage him politically."

And, it did.. right now. Mission Accomplished.
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