12:04 p.m. ET, March 12, 2024
Top Democrats on Senate Judiciary Committee attack Hur’s comments on Biden’s mental acuity as “gratuitous”
CNN
Top Senate Democrats slammed special counsel Robert Hur’s report as “gratuitous” and argued it was not his responsibility to make assessments about President Joe Biden’s mental acuity.
Sen. Dick Durbin, the No. 2 Senate Democrat and chair of the Judiciary Committee, swiped at Hur on Tuesday.
“One word comes to mind: gratuitous. It’s just a political observation that was totally unnecessary for the job he was assigned,” Durbin told CNN.
“There’s a clear difference here in treatment of these classified documents by President Biden and President (Donald) Trump. President Trump denied it and tried to evade it and may have concealed some evidence. I don’t know. President Biden, on the other hand, has been found to be cleared in terms of any future action by the Department of Justice,” he said.
Democratic Sen. Richard Blumenthal, another member of the Judiciary Committee, also criticized Hur’s comments about Biden’s memory as being “worthless.”
GOP Sen. Josh Hawley pushed back against the Democrats’ criticism, telling CNN that Hur had a responsibility to explain why he did not recommend charges.
When asked about the contrast between Biden’s cooperation with law enforcement and Trump’s unwillingness, Hawley defended the former president. “The way the Biden Justice Department has handled this, I think completely bulldozes their case against Trump,” Hawley argued.
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