Transcript shows Hur was misleading about Biden forgetting date of Beau's death

[Progressive Pessimist]

No Republicans belong in the Justice Department at this rate. They cannot be trusted to be objective until proven otherwise. Appointing them to investigations is not worth the surface level  appearance of "fairness."

[Progressive Pessimist]

I thought I said all I needed to on this, but it just occurred to me that this is yet again another instance of a right wing smear against Biden that blew up miserably. I would say he has his own teflon coating (mostly through preemptively not doing much wrong) but he can be beaten this year, though probably only if Democrats allow it in not backing Biden with the numbers they need to.

[Progressive Pessimist]

The thing that bothers me, and I can't get past, is that Hur said that he would have prosecuted Biden but for the fact that he would have trouble getting a conviction because Biden the project an avuncular  aura   and along with his cognitive issues, would thus prove to be a sympathetic witness.   In short, Hur's commentary about Biden's cognitive issues with certainly not gratuitous, but rather central to his decision not to prosecute Biden.

It's pretty obvious: Hur knew there was no case against Biden and he couldn't be charged, but he's a hack who didn't want to admit that outright, so instead he construed this absurd excuse as to why Biden shouldn't be charged.

Let's not kid ourselves; this was his audition to be Trump's Attorney-General.

Yet he still managed to piss off much of the GOP anyway.