Former White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki said that an investigation into special counsel Robert Hur could be warranted following his report on President Joe Biden’s handling of classified materials.
Hur did not recommend any charges against the president but did describe him as a “well-meaning elderly man with a poor memory,” which triggered an immediate uproar on both sides of the aisle.
“You know, one of the points that you’ve made and other legal minds have said about this report is that it kind of goes, of course, outside of the scope of norms. It goes – his reporting and who he talked to went outside of what would be normal, even for a special counsel,” she began. “Do you think that should be investigated or looked into? Because the judicial system, the judiciary is kind of not a positive view necessarily by the American public at this point.”
“Well, in the role that I have, all I can do is point it out, which is you had an investigation that ran for 15 months, which could have been concluded in just a few months. There was never any questions the president had not engaged in criminal wrongdoing. He was the self-reporting party here. He had turned the documents over upon discovery, cooperated in every respect,” Biden attorney Bob Bauer asserted – in spite of the report’s conclusion that Biden had, in fact, acted outside the law with regard to the classified documents.
“And yet somehow in this report, the special counsel felt compelled to engage in this irrelevant, unfounded and often pejorative commentary. And I think it’s clear that that commentary is inconsistent with department norms,” Bauer continued, suggesting that comments about Biden’s memory lapses were designed to be hurtful rather than to provide a reasonable explanation for not moving forward with prosecution.
Hur is scheduled to testify in a public hearing at the House Judiciary Committee on March 12.
A source with direct knowledge told Fox News Digital Hur will testify on March 12 in a public hearing on his findings following months of investigating President Biden’s improper handling of classified records.
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