Vice President Kamala Harris sharply attacked Particular Counsel Robert Hur’s report on President Biden’s dealing with of categorised paperwork, Friday, as “politically motivated” and “gratuitous, inaccurate and inappropriate.”
A reporter requested Harris in Washington if she thought Hur’s report that recounted several memory lapses by the president was truthful. Harris blasted Hur as being “wrong on the facts” and thought he ought to have proven larger integrity.
“I’m glad you asked,” Harris stated. “Listen, I have been privileged and proud to serve as vice president of the United States with Joe Biden as president of the United States. And what I saw [in] that report last night, I believe, as a former prosecutor, the comments that were made by that prosecutor [were] gratuitous, inaccurate and inappropriate.”
Harris’ voice grew stronger as she spoke, virtually shaking at one level.
Vice President Kamala Harris with President Biden, left, and Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff. (MANDEL NGAN/AFP through Getty Pictures)
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“October 7th, Israel experienced a horrific attack, and I will tell you, we got the calls, the president and myself, in the hours after that occurred,” she added. “It was an intense moment for the Commander in Chief of the United States of America, and I was in almost every meeting with the president in the hours and days that followed. Countless hours with the secretary of defense, the secretary of state, the heads of our intelligence community, and the president was in front of and on top of it all.
“So the way in which that the president’s demeanor in that report was characterised couldn’t be extra fallacious on the info and clearly politically motivated, gratuitous. And so I’ll say that relating to the position and accountability of a prosecutor in a state of affairs like that, we should always anticipate that there could be the next stage of integrity than what we noticed.”
Harris received applause after concluding her remarks and left the room.
In his report made public on Thursday, Hur described Biden as a “sympathetic, well-meaning, aged man with a poor reminiscence,” and stated he would deliver no legal fees in opposition to the president after a months-long investigation into his improper retention of categorised paperwork associated to nationwide safety.
Joe Biden and Robert Hur. (Reuters / Getty)
Hur has been investigating Biden’s improper retention of classified records since last year. Those records included classified documents about military and foreign policy in Afghanistan, among other records related to national security and foreign policy which Hur said implicated “delicate intelligence sources and strategies.”
In his report, Hur’s assessment of Biden and recounting of his memory lapses constituted part of his conclusion about why Biden shouldn’t be charged. They included examples of him forgetting when he was vice president, when his son Beau died and details of a debate over the war in Afghanistan.
“Primarily based on our direct interactions with and observations of him, he’s somebody from whom many jurors will wish to establish affordable doubt,” the report states. “It will be troublesome to persuade a jury that they need to convict him—by then a former president effectively into his eighties—of a severe felony that requires a psychological state of willfulness.”
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Biden was defiant after the report came out, giving a rare primetime address Thursday night and holding a press conference where he declared his memory was “positive” and said questions about Beau’s death were nobody’s “rattling enterprise.”
Hur, who was appointed final 12 months by Legal professional Normal Merrick Garland as particular counsel to analyze Biden’s dealing with of categorised paperwork, oversaw indictments of a number of high Baltimore officers for public corruption and fraud throughout his time as a United States Legal professional.
Hur was nominated by President Trump to be U.S. Legal professional for the District of Maryland in November 2017, and he was unanimously confirmed by the Senate in March 2018.
Fox Information’ Jessica Chasmar and Brooke Singman contributed to this report.
