Dem Dan Goldman Torches Robert Hur As Trump Partisan Getting ‘His Licks In’ Against Biden

Rep. Dan Goldman (D-NY) torched Special Counsel Robert Hur as a Trump-appointed partisan who used his report to “get his licks in” against President Joe Biden.

Hur’s report on Biden’s handling of sensitive documents dropped Thursday. The good news for Biden is there will be no charges against the president — but the bad news is the report is chock full of damaging asides about him and his memory.

Biden responded to the report Thursday night in a fiery press scrum — which was undercut by his misspeaking “Mexico” when he meant to say “Egypt.”

On Friday morning’s edition of CNN This Morning, Goldman attacked Hur’s report as a “political potshot” delivered by a Trump appointee in an election year:

REP. DAN GOLDMAN: That’s why this report is misguided, both in its conclusion and its excessive editorializing.

PHIL MATTINGLY: Now, I think the rationale that the special counsel’s team used for talking about the mental acuity or talking about, whether or not he remembered specific things, is in the report says at trial, Mr. Biden would likely present himself to a jury, as he did during our interview, of him a sympathetic, well-meaning elderly man with poor memory. They were trying to back up that statement in their decision, particularly specifically on the notebooks that they believe have been shared with the ghost writer, why they did not believe that they could win in trial on the issue of willful retention and dissemination. You don’t think that backs that up?

REP. DAN GOLDMAN: Yeah, but but it’s unnecessary. No, no. First of all, the evidence that they gathered that he knowingly and willfully retained classified information while he was a private citizen, which is necessary. And the special counsel discusses that is based on such thin evidence. And when you’re talking about notebooks versus actually marked classified documents, that’s a significant difference, because President Biden, as part of his job, took copious notes.

Some of it must have been on classified information, some of it unclassified. And he understandably believed that his notes were his and they didn’t have classified markings on them. That’s a big difference.

And so what you really need to look at is what marked classified documents did he possess that he knew he possessed and maintained, and the notion that his own credibility or recollection would have anything to do with the evidence, which was plainly insufficient, is is a fallacy.

And not only that, but it’s you’re assuming that, the defendant in this case would testify at trial. I was a prosecutor for ten years. I did not consider the defendant’s credibility as a witness. I may have considered the defendant’s credibility in explaining the evidence, and whether or not it would rise to the level of knowing intent.

And so this was extremely gratuitous, unnecessary. And it was just a political potshot in the middle of an election year when the special counsel knows that it’s two elderly men who are running for president and this one who was appointed by Donald Trump, wanted to make sure that he got his licks in.

Hur was appointed as United States Attorney for the District of Maryland by Trump, and served from April 9, 2018 to February 15, 2021.

Watch above via CNN This Morning.