Why is the AP leaving out the fact that Robert Hur, who made the report, is a Republican who was brought into the DOJ under Trump?
You would think they might find that at least a little suspicious.
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Or that he's not a psychologist or neurologist, did not administer any kind of formal cognitive examination, and is not qualified to make this kind of claim.
Not to mention that it has nothing to do with the classified documents. It's not a normal thing for a special counsel to talk about.
Hur is a Republican, and a former U.S. attorney under Trump.
“So you have to wonder with those pressures impinging on the investigation from the outside knowing the attacks that Republicans have levied on the law enforcement process, did he decide we would have to ask that we reach the only legal conclusion possible and then toss in the rest of it to placate a certain political constituency?” Bauer asked.
The Justice Department has not commented on the criticism.
They explicitly mention it and then quote someone talking about how it's suspicious.
Oh they probably just, y’know, forgot.
Sure.
"Poor memory" he probably answered a ton of incriminating questions with "I don't recall." Just like any sane person. Selectively forgetting only the points they don't have evidence for demonstrates great mental clarity. Neither side can just say that though.
It's not like Republicans,and their shills, didn't give a free pass to Ronald Reagan, Trump and his family when the "couldn't remember" hundreds of times - those folks have very poor memories themselves.
Alberto "I don't recall" Gonzales
So, Merrick really is fucking this up.
Well, wouldn’t be the first time an Obama capitulation was leveraged to serve the GQP.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
And then he went on to cite examples where investigators said the president’s memory lapsed, including over when his older son Beau had died.
Democrats are now answering the widespread questions about the 81-year-old president’s age and readiness by affirming that Biden is capable of being commander in chief and trying to discredit people who portray him feeble.
Bauer, who is married to Biden’s top White House aide Anita Dunn, said he raised concerns over the inclusion of these details to both Hur and Garland, which he viewed to be a violation of the Justice Department norms that essentially work to avoid prejudicing the public against people who are not charged with a crime.
Former Trump Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein defended the report on CNN’ “State of the Union” Sunday.
“When you conduct a criminal investigation, some of the information that you uncover and some things that you evaluate don’t necessarily put the subject in a favorable light.
“It’s unfortunate that the special counsel process results in public reports that expose things that otherwise would remain sealed in Department of Justice files.”
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