"Just so despicable," says Senator Tina Smith (D-Minn.). “It is outrageous the way he disrespected and maligned the president.”
“What you have is a grandstander not a prosecutor,” claims Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.).
"A partisan hit job," says Dan Pfeiffer, commentator and former advisor to Barack Obama.
This is the response by Democrats in office and in the media to special counsel Robert Hur who issued a 345 page report on President Biden, who is on a recording telling a ghost writer he had "classified stuff" in his possession.
Speaking of Obama, it seems lost on these people that Hur was specifically chosen to be special prosecutor by none other than Merrick Garland, who was chosen by Obama to serve on the Supreme Court.
It also doesn’t seem to matter to Hur’s critics that he’s chosen to not seek prosecution of Biden for this very serious crime, they’re still attacking him for daring to state obvious truths about the president. I guess it came as a shock and a surprise for him to refer to Biden as a “well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory,” a man who has a “diminished faculties in advancing age.”
I’m pretty sure the word is out about that, especially after the president is on video confusing the leaders of France and Germany with previous leaders who died years ago, as well as mixing up the president of Egypt with the leader of Mexico. It’s easy to see why 86% of Americans think Biden is too old to serve another term.
And yet the attacks continue, including from Biden himself, who objected to Hur reporting how Biden couldn’t remember when his son Beau died.
“How in the hell dare he raise that?” Biden told reporters at a press conference.
“Why in the hell are you asking that question?” bellowed former Attorney General Eric Holder, who went on to say that Hur was "a rube, perhaps," who had "shaded" what he put in the report. “What does that have to do with the retention of classified documents?”
The problem with these attacks is that it turns out Hur never asked questions about Beau’s death, the president himself brought it up. This is what a person gets for speaking truth to power, he gets trashed and maligned by tribalists who put their party before their country. And it’s pretty hypocritical coming from people who had nothing but praise for Republicans like Mitt Romney, John McCain, and Liz Cheney for standing up to Trump. Where’s their praise now?
As Bernard Goldberg put it, Democrats should be thanking Hur for bringing this up and making the president’s mental faculties a big enough issue that he or his party starts thinking seriously about a replacement, which is not without a very interesting historical precedent.
Lyndon Johnson was running for reelection in 1968 until Senator Eugene McCarthy of Minnesota, along with Senator Robert Kennedy of New York, put up an unexpectedly strong challenge to him in early primaries. LBJ then made his announcement to drop his run on March 31. Kennedy was later assassinated in June, opening the door for another Minnesotan, Hubert Humphrey, to win the nomination.
Today, Minnesota Representative Dean Phillips is running in the Democratic primary against Biden, and Kennedy’s son, Robert Kennedy Jr., is running a third party campaign. And Democrats in office and in the media are trashing them both.
So much for talking truth to power.