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Schiff spars with Hur in heated exchange over report that 'disparaged' Biden: 'That did not happen'
Rep. Adam Schiff pressed former Special Counsel Robert Hur in a Tuesday hearing on the political nature of his report on President Biden's handling of classified documents.
"What you did write was deeply prejudicial to the interests of the president, you say it wasn't political, and yet you must have understood," Schiff said. "You must have understood the impact of your words. You must have understood the impact of your decision to go beyond the specifics of a particular document, to go to the very general, to your own personal prejudicial, subjective opinion of the president, one you knew would be amplified by his political opponent. When you knew that would influence a political campaign, you had to understand, and you did it anyway. You did it anyway."
"What is in the rules, Mr. Hur?" Schiff said. "What is in the rules is you don't gratuitously do things to prejudice the subject of an investigation when you're declining to prosecute you don't gratuitously add language that you know will be useful in a political campaign. You were not born yesterday. You understood exactly what you were doing. It was a choice."
"You certainly didn't have to include that language. You could have said vis a vis the documents that were from the university. The president did not recall. There is nothing more common. You know this. I know this. There is nothing more common with a witness of any age when asked about events that are years old to say, I do not recall. Indeed, they're instructed by their attorney to do that if they have any question about it. You understood that you made a choice. That was a political choice. It was the wrong choice. Mr. Chairman, I yield back."
"Congressman, what you are suggesting is that I shape, sanitize, omit portions of my reasoning, an explanation to the attorney general for political reasons," Hur said.
"No," Schiff shot back. "I suggest that you do not shape [a] report for political reasons, which is what you did."
Adam Schiff should be tried for treason. Everything he is accusing Hur of he did.
