'Rotten fruit thrown at you': Robert Hur speaks out on vitriol after Biden report [View all]
The former special counsel who investigated Joe Biden’s handling of classified documents has said he is stunned at “the level of vitriol” that greeted him across the US’s political spectrum after he declined to prosecute the president yet [betrayed] portrayed him in a report as an “elderly man with a poor memory”.
“I knew it was going to be unpleasant” taking on the investigation, Robert Hur told The New Yorker in a lengthy interview Friday, more than a week after he appeared at a congressional hearing in which both Democrats and Republicans heavily criticized him. “But the level of vitriol – it’s hard to know exactly how intense that’s going to be until the rotten fruit is being thrown at you.”
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Meanwhile, Republicans who were enthusiastic about Hur’s thoughts on Biden’s memory were simultaneously furious that he had refused to file charges against the president. Their preferred candidate, Donald Trump, on the other hand, faces more than 80 criminal charges for not only his handling of classified materials after his presidency – but also for attempting to subvert his 2020 electoral defeat to Biden and in connection with hush-money payments.
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Garland’s selection of Hur – a former US attorney appointed during Trump’s presidency – was meant to protect the Biden White House from appearances of a conflict of interest or political interference.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/mar/23/robert-hur-criticism-special-counsel-biden-report
So, some of the take-away I get from this is just how violent the Qanon-RW trumpers are.
I don't recall liberals doing anything like this. We were mighty pissed off about Mueller and Comey, for example.[/b]
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