Kamala Harris Hits Back at Hur In Blistering Attack on ‘Integrity’ Of ‘Politically Motivated’ Biden Report
Vice President Kamala Harris hit back at Special Counsel Robert Hur over the report into President Joe Biden’s handling of sensitive and classified information, attacking the “integrity” and accuracy of the “politically motivated” report.
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.
After delivering remarks on the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act at a meeting of community violence intervention leaders in the EEOB’s Indian Treaty Room, a reporter asked the VP about her views on the report “as a prosecutor.”
The vice president echoed much of what Biden and his allies have said about the inaccuracy and inappropriateness of the report — but was blistering in her criticism of Hur as a political actor whose actions lacked integrity:
REPORTER: As a former prosecutor, do you think the special counsel’s report is fair?
VP KAMALA HARRIS: I’m glad you asked!
Listen, I have been privileged and proud to serve as vice president of the United States with Joe Biden as president of United States. And what I saw of that report last night, I believe, is, as a former prosecutor, the comments that were made by that prosecutor: gratuitous, inaccurate and inappropriate!
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. 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, asking questions and requiring that America’s military and intelligence community and diplomatic community would figure out and know how many people were dead. How many are Americans? How many hostages? Is the situation stable?
He was in front of it all, coordinating and directing leaders who are in charge of America’s national security, not to mention our allies around the globe. For days and up until now, months.
So the way that the president’s demeanor in that report was characterized could not be more wrong on the facts and clearly politically motivated! Gratuitous!
And so I will say that when it comes to the role and responsibility of a prosecutor in a situation like that, we should expect that there would be a higher level of integrity than what we saw.
Thank you. Thank you for the question.
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