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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Get um Kamala! [twitter]https://twitter.com/TrumpsTaxes/status/1756022005134942345[/twitter][/quote]

Ok, so he IS clear headed and capable of going to trial?  Let’s do that then. [/quote]
The report found no evidence of wrongdoing that would necessitate a trial, though. Sorry.[/quote]

DP - the Trumpers don’t care about lack of evidence. They are concerned with projecting false equivalences as Trump instructed them to do. As various of his admin staff observed, when accused of crimes, Trump accuses his rivals of committing the same crimes. [/quote]

That’s not what the report said. The report said that Biden broke the law, but not worth bringing the case because the jury would likely view him as a sympathetic elderly man with memory problems[/quote]

The report was a trashy hit job. There was not enough evidence to press charges so Hurr went on a Trumpian political mud slinging rampage. Hur probably has a bright future in the GOP

[b]Special counsel report on Biden a ‘partisan hit job’, Democrats say[/b]

https://amp.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/feb/09/democrat-opinion-special-counsel-report-biden

[u]Others raised spectre of Comey, FBI director who declined to indict Hillary Clinton in 2016 but publicly cast doubt on her character[/u]
Martin Pengelly in Washington
@MartinPengelly
Fri 9 Feb 2024 12.17 EST

[b]Joe Biden, senior aides and political observers strongly criticiizes the special counsel, Robert Hur, for extensively discussing the president’s age and allegedly fading memory[/b] in his report on Biden’s retention of classified information from his time as a senator and as vice-president – which did not produce an indictment.
Hur, who Donald Trump appointed US attorney for Maryland, “could not refrain from investigative excess”, said Bob Bauer, Biden’s personal counsel.

Though this was “perhaps unsurprising given the intense pressures of the current political environment”, Bauer added, [b]the final report “flouts Department [of Justice] regulations and [/b]
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[b]Hur’s “extraneous commentary” had “no place in this report”[/b], Biden added.
Bauer elaborated: “[b]The [DoJ] inspector general observed only a few years ago that high-profile investigations, such as those of a president, may be ‘subject to scrutiny not typical of the average criminal case, but that does not provide a basis for violating well-established department norms, and, essentially, ‘trashing’ the subject of an investigation’ with extraneous, unfounded and irrelevant critical commentary.[/b]

[b]The inspector general added that it ‘violate[s] long-standing department practice and protocol’ to ‘criticise uncharged conduct’. The special counsel report fails that test as well.”[/b]

Hur, Bauer said, “had no choice but to find that criminal charges were not warranted. He had other choices, which should have been guided by the department’s rules, policies, and practices, and he made the wrong ones.”

The MSNBC host Joe Scarborough, an ex-Republican congressman, accused Hur of “irrelevant … politically charged, Trump-like ramblings”.

“It sure sounds like James Comey, who couldn’t indict Hillary Clinton illegally so he decided to hold a press conference and indict her politically.”

n his Message Box newsletter, Pfeiffer said the report was “very bad and poses some real political peril”.

But he added: “Robert Hur is described in press reports as a ‘well-respected US 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 … generously describ[ing] memory lapses from others but hammer[ing] Biden for the same.

“[b]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.” [/b][u][/quote]

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