Lawmakers on Tuesday turned a hearing on President Joe Biden’s handling of classified documents into a referendum on an issue at the heart of the upcoming presidential election: the 81-year-old’s mental health.
Supporters of the Biden administration and its primary challenger, Republican nominee Donald Trump, weighed in on the issue after the House Judiciary Committee grilled special counsel Robert Hule for five hours. Completely different answers.
They also disagreed entirely with Hull’s decision not to press criminal charges, despite his February report concluding that Biden “knowingly withheld and disclosed classified material as a private citizen.”
Announcing his decision in early February, Hule argued that the criminal charges were unwarranted because he said Biden could show himself to a jury as a “well-intentioned old man with a bad memory” – a repeat from Republican lawmakers This sentence was repeated during the hearing.
Subsequently, Ian Sams, spokesman for the White House Counsel’s Office, expressed his views:
“The most important thing I took away from today’s hearing is that over the course of three hours we had Republicans demonstrate how hypocritical they are in order to simultaneously mount political attacks on the president on their own, on Democrats and on the special counsel. . He personally exposed why there are no cases here,” he said.
“The case is closed, the evidence does not support the filing of charges, that’s the end of it,” Sams said. “It’s time to move on.”
Alex Pfeiffer, a spokesman for Trump’s Make America Great Again movement, offered his own conclusions.
“Joe Biden put America’s national security at risk by unlawfully withholding and disclosing classified material,” he said. “Biden lied about his misconduct at a national press conference, which begs the question — what else did Joe Biden lie about?”
Hull’s own grammatically complex statement further confuses the issue:
“The word ‘not guilty’ did not appear in my report and that was not my conclusion,” Hull said.
In a newly released transcript of a five-hour interview with Biden last year, Biden said he couldn’t remember details or misquoted dates, including one appearing to say his eldest son died in 2017 and Trump Pu Ze said that he was elected in 2016 and “elected in November 2017.”
“Now every American, every media outlet can see this transcript,” Sams said. He noted that it showed that despite the confusing year of Beau Biden’s death, it showed that Biden was quoting correctly. Got this date: May 30th.
“I think you saw the anger and the emotional reaction of a father who is still experiencing the pain of losing a loved one every day,” Sams said.
Many Republicans used the five minutes of question time to compare Biden’s situation to that of his challengers. Trump also faces criminal charges for his handling of classified documents after leaving office. He was originally charged with 37 felonies, including charges that he obstructed justice by failing to return documents even after being subpoenaed. It’s unclear when the case will go to trial.
Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz took aim at the justice system and Biden’s mental acuity with one sentence: “This guy doesn’t get the same treatment as Trump because the elevator doesn’t go to the top, so we Intention cannot be proven”.
Democrats resist that characterization.
“Joe Biden is a capable and good president who understands American values,” said Rep. Steve Cohen of Tennessee.
In his opening statement, Hoole said he would “avoid speculation or comment on areas outside the scope of the investigation.”
But he also responded to criticism that he had crossed a line, saying he could not have reached such a conclusion “without assessing the president’s state of mind.”
Other elected representatives chose not to pose any questions to Hull, such as Missouri Rep. Cori Bush, a Democrat who described Hull’s report as a “partisan hit job” even as she expressed concern about Trump. An investigation with Biden is appropriate.
“Our country deserves better than this,” she said of the hearing.
Texas Rep. Nathaniel Moran praised Hull’s efforts, asking him only yes-or-no questions and hinting that a District of Columbia court might rule Biden incompetent and place him under conservatorship. He repeated critical lines from the Hule report — words that are sure to be echoed in November’s presidential campaign — though he prefaced them with an adjective, calling Biden a “compassionate, well-intentioned, memory-minded person.” Poor old man.”
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