Home Judiciary Committee Democrats have turned Jim Jordan’s Robert Hur listening to right into a platform to reveal Donald Trump.
Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA), a former prosecutor, questioned why Hur made his feedback about Biden’s reminiscence within the report:
Former prosecutor Adam Schiff to Robert Hur, “You cannot tell me you’re so naive as to think your words who would not have created a political firestorm, you understood that didn’t you, when you wrote those words? When you decided to include those words.” pic.twitter.com/D61TSibqu2
â Sarah Reese Jones (@PoliticusSarah) March 12, 2024
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Rep. Eric Swalwell D-CA) requested Hur if he would settle for an appointment from Donald Trump if Trump returned to the White Home:
Rep. Eric Swalwell: I wish to first see if you’ll pledge to not settle for an appointment from Donald Trump. If he’s elected once more as president.
Robert Hur: Congressman, I don’t I’m not right here to testify about what is going to occur sooner or later. pic.twitter.com/umaFCTdHlY
â Sarah Reese Jones (@PoliticusSarah) March 12, 2024
Then Rep. Ted Lieu (D-CA) got here alongside and turned the listening to on its ear by asking a collection of sure or no inquiries to Hur:
Lieu requested Hur, ” Did you discover that President Biden directed his lawyer to deceive the FBI? We recognized no such proof. Did you discover that President Biden directed his lawyer to destroy categorised paperwork?”
Hur, “No.”
Lieu continued, ” Did you discover that President Biden directed his private assistant to maneuver bins of paperwork to cover them from the FBI?”
Hur, “No.”
Lieu requested, “Did you find that President Biden directed his personal assistant to delete security camera footage after the FBI asked for that footage?”
Hur, “No”
Lieu requested, “Did you find that President Biden showed a classified map related to an ongoing military operation to a campaign aide who did not have clearance?”
Hur answered, “No.”
Lieu continued, “Did you find that President Biden engaged in a conspiracy to obstruct justice?”
Hur, “No.”
Ted Lieu’s last query was, “Did you find that President Biden engaged in a scheme to conceal classified documents?”
Hur, “No”
Lieu continued, “Each of the activities I just laid out described what Donald Trump did in his woeful mishandling of classified information and his criminal efforts to deceive the FBI. In contrast, President Biden handed over documents without delay and complied fully with investigators.”
The true objective of this listening to was to put the groundwork for an try to impeach President Biden over his dealing with of categorised paperwork, however Republicans have proven that they don’t have anything to hold their hats on. The listening to has been all over on the GOP facet, whereas Democrats have used this nationwide platform to indicate that Trump dedicated crimes, is in cognitive decline, and is unfit for workplace.
Jim Jordan and James Comer gave Democrats a nationwide platform to argue why Trump ought to by no means be returned to the White Home, and it has been a catastrophe for the previous president and his occasion.
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