TUESDAY WAS A BIG DAY for the House Judiciary Committee. Special Counsel Robert Hur testified. Rep. Tom Tiffany (R-Wis.) probably elicited the most useful testimony of the day when he probed the special counsel about a letter, dated Feb. 5th, that the White House Counsel sent to Hur days prior to his February report becoming public. Highlights here.
Tiffany asked Hur if the White House had requested him to “change [the report’s] references to the president’s poor memory.” Yes, Hur confirmed. This contradicted claims made by Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) who, earlier in Tuesday’s hearing, claimed that Biden did not “seek to redact a single word of Mr. Hur’s report.”
Hur was consistent. In an exchange with Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), he answered a question about pressure from the White House. “They did request certain edits and changes to the draft report,” he said. Hur had concluded “that no criminal charges are warranted” in his investigation into Biden’s mishandling of classified documents despite having found records “related to foreign policy in Afghanistan and handwritten notes ‘implicating sensitive intelligence.’” No charges were warranted essentially because Biden would be a sympathetic defendant. He “would likely present himself to the jury, as he did during our interview with him, as a sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory.” It is reminiscent of James Comey not similarly pursuing Hillary Clinton in 2015. (Only the G.O.P. is ever pro persecuted.)
That wasn’t the end of it. The White House sent a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland only days after forwarding a communique to Hur which objected to his report suggesting Biden’s mental status had declined because Biden couldn’t recall basic facts when interviewed by investigators. An example was his inability to identify when he was VP or when son, Beau, died. The hypocrisy is blinding. I anticipate John Solomon’s analysis on Hur’s testimony Wednesday.
This is important because, obviously, such requests from the Biden regime or Biden himself would constitute ‘obstruction of justice,’ not altogether dissimilar to the charge Dems made against President Trump with Robert Mueller and the Trump-Russia-collusion hoax which was eventually nixed by then-A.G. Bill Barr.
Tuesday evening anti-climactically found Trump and Biden winners in the Georgia and Mississippi primaries, winning all the delegates. Washington State also held its all-mail-in primaries, and who knows when they’ll be tallied. The G.O.P. caucuses in Hawaii this night, too. Biden also won the Northern Mariana Islands. Republicans caucus there on 3/15. No electoral votes at stake.
Biden now has 2,007 delegates, more than enough to win the Democratic nomination, which requires 1,968 on the first ballot. He has taken all up for grabs except 20 uncommitteds, and the three that went to Palmer, thanks to American Samoa. Trump has 1,181 delegates at 11 p.m., falling just shy of the 1,215 needed to clinch the G.O.P. nomination once and for all, though not everything has yet been reported.
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