By The opinion
13 Feb 2024, 00:48 AM EST
Last week, after a year, The conclusions of the investigation led by special prosecutor Robert Hur into the handling of classified documents were released by Joe Biden when he stopped being vice president in 2017.
In addition to announcing that no charges would be filed against the president, Hur sparked controversy by mentioning that he decided not to put the 81-year-old president on trial because it would likely instill sympathy among a jury who would see him as an “old, well-intentioned man with a bad attitude.” memory”.
The report is sure to become a topic of debate in the 2024 campaign, where Biden’s likely opponent, Donald Trump, faces criminal charges for his handling of classified material, even though Hur made clear how different the two cases were.
In addition to this, now the Republicans of the House of Representatives are requesting recordings and transcripts of special counsel Robert Hur’s interviews with President Biden after a lengthy report criticized his handling of classified documents.
In a letter to the Justice Department on Monday, the Republican chairmen of the House Ways and Means Committees requested transcripts, audio and video recordings and any other records related to Hur’s Oct. 8 and 9 interviews. with Biden.
They also requested all materials related to the interview with Biden memoir ghostwriter Mark Zwonitzer, with whom the special counsel accused the president of sharing government secrets and documents related to a 2015 call with Ukraine’s prime minister.
The committee chairmen, Kentucky Rep. James Comer, Ohio Rep. Jim Jordan and Missouri Rep. Jason Smith, said the materials are relevant to the impeachment inquiry into Biden.
Committees have been trying to prove for months that Biden enriched himself from his family’s foreign businesses in China and Ukraine. and received bribes, but so far they have not discovered any irregularities on the part of the president.
The lawmakers said Biden’s handling of classified documents is part of their investigation and that Hur’s report would help determine “whether there are sufficient grounds to draft articles of impeachment.”
“Given the seriousness of these matters, the committees are prepared to compel the production of this material if necessary,” the letter said, requesting that the materials be provided to them by February 19.
Furthermore, it emerged that House Republicans contacted special counsel Robert Hur to discuss his possibility of testifying before the House Judiciary Committee about his report on President Joe Biden’s handling of classified documents, according to three sources with direct knowledge of the matter.
At the same time, the two special counsels appointed during the Trump presidency, Robert Mueller and John Durham, testified before Congress once they submitted their reports to the Justice Department.
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