Fox News host Trey Gowdy had some harsh words for Special Counsel Robert Hur.
Earlier this month, Hur released his findings into President Joe Biden’s retention of classified documents from his time as a senator and vice president. Hur declined to charge Biden in part because Hur believed a jury would likely see Biden “as a sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory.” The report stated that in interviews with investigators, Biden could not recall key details.
Since then, there has been ongoing debate about whether the Department of Justice should release the transcripts of Biden’s interviews.
“The last thing the White House needs is any further revelations of the president not having his memory solid and failing to remember things and stumbling and all the rest of it,” said Brit Hume on Monday’s Special Report on Fox News. “And I guess the concern may be that this transcript may be full of such stumbles and failures to remember and saying things that – whether inadvertently or not – are not true. Further political embarrassment is obviously an issue.”
Gowdy responded by objecting to the public release of the report itself.
“I think prosecutors ought to speak through indictments,” Gowdy, a former federal prosecutor said. “What Jim Comey did with his press conference was wrong. Robert Mueller has no business weighing in on anything on whether or not a crime was committed. Rob Hur, the same analysis.
Hume objected to Gowdy’s characterization, stating that it was Attorney General Merrick Garland who decided to release the report, which Hur was required to write.
“He filed a confidential report and the president’s attorney general decided to release it,” Hume said. “So, how is that on the prosecutor? I don’t think it is. It may be in keeping with our current standards of, you know, everything released, but, it certainly wasn’t up to Hur.”
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