Former special counsel Robert Hur told lawmakers Tuesday that his report on President Biden's alleged mishandling of classified documents "Did not exonerate" Biden of wrongdoing and that the commander-in-chief and his defenders were misleading the public about key details in the case.
"I did not exonerate him and that word does not appear in the report," Hur corrected Rep. Pramila Jayapal during a five-hour-long House Judiciary Committee hearing on Capitol Hill.
Jayapal, the influential chairwoman of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, spoke over Hur as he corrected her before she cut him off by saying, "Mr. Hur, it's my time. Thank you." Special Counsel Robert K. Hur testifying before the US House Judiciary Committee, sitting at a podium facing the audience and speaking into a microphone.
Special counsel Robert Hur testified at a House Judiciary Committee hearing that his report did not exonerate President Biden of any wrongdoing.
Shutterstock Hur testified that Biden lied at least twice to the public; once when claiming he had not shared classified information with a ghostwriter and again when the president alleged that he had locked up the documents in question - and Hur also revealed that the White House counsel's office had sought to purge his report of negative assessments of Biden's mental fitness.
Hur wrote in his bombshell report, released Feb. 8, that he had uncovered evidence that Biden "Willfully retained and disclosed classified materials" but found that the 81-year-old should not face charges for hoarding the nation's secrets over a span of decades on the grounds that jurors would likely see him as a "Well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory."
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