Attorney General Merrick Garland has defended his decision not to overrule Special Counsel Robert Hur's recommendation against prosecuting President Biden, amidst criticisms regarding Biden's memory. Hur's report, which investigated Biden's handling of classified documents, described the President as showing signs of memory loss, a point that has sparked controversy. Critics, including @TomFitton of Judicial Watch, argue that if evidence of Biden's memory failing is substantial, Garland should reconsider the decision not to prosecute. However, Garland maintains his stance, emphasizing his ethical role as a lawyer for the American people and dismissing the idea of editing or censoring the special counsel's report as 'absurd.' The report's portrayal of Biden as a 'sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory' has been both defended and criticized, with some seeing it as integral to the decision not to indict and others calling the description 'inappropriate'.
“But the failing-memory issue was not extraneous to the evidence in this criminal matter; indeed, it was integral to Hur’s decision to not recommend indicting Biden. Hur concluded that the evidence is not sufficient to convict Biden in large part because of his memory.” https://t.co/G8hw942wAq
Why Robert Hur Called Biden an “Elderly Man with a Poor Memory” | The New Yorker https://t.co/en9qAJLpAw
Robert Hur, the author of a report on whether Joe Biden mishandled classified documents, speaks to @JeannieSGersen about his most damning conclusion—that the President comes across as “a sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory.” https://t.co/ZQLHVd5Nlj
INSIDER: Garland grilled over why he allowed ‘inappropriate’ Biden description in Hur report https://t.co/nGFVKP8I22
AG Garland pushes back on criticism from White House officials and others who say he shouldn't have let special counsel Robert Hur assert President Biden suffers from memory loss in his report on Biden's handling of classified documents. https://t.co/coFWEvrTqu
Garland: “The idea that an attorney general would edit or redact or censor the special counsel’s explanation for why the special counsel reached the decision that the special counsel did — that’s absurd”https://t.co/MWxgWg0OZv
BREAKING IN WASHINGTON: Attorney General Merrick Garland Says He's Not A Lawyer For President Biden, but A Lawyer For the American People, He's Been Ethical, Labels Idea of Editing Special Counsel's Biden Docs Report as 'Absurd.' WATCH https://t.co/cJ7truhGKD
Attorney General Merrick Garland................thank you https://t.co/DDdQy6x0EM
.@TomFitton: How can Garland accept Hur’s decision not to prosecute Biden if Garland thinks Biden is sufficiently w/it to be prosecuted & there's evidence of his memory failing that will come across to a jury, then Garland should overrule Hur’s recommendation & prosecute Biden. https://t.co/2vhpHShTfR
.@TomFitton: And the Left has tried to pretend that Hur had no good faith basis to suggest Biden’s memory was failing. The transcript shows that Biden's memory was a mess and Hur fairly concluded that Biden’s memory was awful. https://t.co/srW8s6dzYZ