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 can’t inform me you’re so naive as to suppose your phrases who wouldn’t have created a political firestorm, you understood that didn’t you, whenever you wrote these phrases? Once you determined to incorporate these phrases.” pic.twitter.com/D61TSibqu2
— 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
— 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 sequence 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 categorized paperwork?”
Hur, “No.”
Lieu continued, ” Did you discover that President Biden directed his private assistant to maneuver packing containers of paperwork to cover them from the FBI?”
Hur, “No.”
Lieu requested, “Did you discover that President Biden directed his private assistant to delete safety digicam footage after the FBI requested for that footage?”
Hur, “No”
Lieu requested, “Did you discover that President Biden confirmed a categorized map associated to an ongoing army operation to a marketing campaign aide who didn’t have clearance?”
Hur answered, “No.”
Lieu continued, “Did you discover that President Biden engaged in a conspiracy to impede justice?”
Hur, “No.”
Ted Lieu’s closing query was, “Did you discover that President Biden engaged in a scheme to hide categorized paperwork?”
Hur, “No”
Lieu continued, “Every of the actions I simply laid out described what Donald Trump did in his woeful mishandling of categorized info and his legal efforts to deceive the FBI. In distinction, President Biden handed over paperwork directly and complied totally with investigators.”
The true function of this listening to was to put the groundwork for an try and impeach President Biden over his dealing with of categorized paperwork, however Republicans have proven that they don’t have anything to hold their hats on. The listening to has been everywhere on the GOP aspect, 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 social gathering.
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