New York Post

3-STOOGES HOUR AT HUR HEARING

- JAMES BOVARD

SPECIAL Counsel Robert Hur was in the hot seat for four hours Tuesday as President Biden’s congressio­nal allies sought to destroy him for doubting Biden’s intellect. They had no case. And instead, they turned the event into Three Stooges-caliber theater. Hur’s report last month concluded that Biden had “willfully retained and disclosed classified materials” — violations of federal law. But Hur said that prosecutin­g him would be dicey because jurors could view Biden as an “elderly man with poor memory.”

The House Judiciary Committee hearing on Hur’s report was only about “Republican­s trying to re-elect the former white supremacis­t-inchief,” according to Rep. Cori Bush (D-Mo.).

Fixating on Biden’s document shenanigan­s could aid Trump and cause the worldwide triumph of tyranny, wailed Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.). Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.) derided Hur as a Republican bootlicker hoping to get a prize appointmen­t if Trump is re-elected.

One Democrat after another put Hur into a headlock and jammed words into his mouth.

When Hur objected to Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.) claiming his report exonerated Biden, she cut him off: “Mr. Hur, it is my time.”

Democrats, veering toward full “Manchurian Candidate,” seemed ready to recite with glazed eyes: “Joe Biden is the kindest, bravest, warmest, most wonderful human being I’ve ever known in my life.”

Biden needs plenty of sycophants because of his hypocrisy, legal violations and brazen falsehoods. After Hur’s report came out, Biden declared. “I did not share classified informatio­n.” Biden claimed that all the classified stuff “in my home was in filing to “buttress his legacy as a world leader” in his ghostwritt­en book.

Some Republican­s were confounded Hur chose not to recommend criminal charges. Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) groused that Hur chose to “apply this ‘senile cooperator’ theory that because Joe Biden cooperated and the elevator didn’t go to the top floor, you don’t think you’d get a conviction.”

Rep. Dan Bishop (R-NC) was perturbed that Hur let the president off the hook by claiming Biden didn’t recognize that a “confidenti­al” marking meant a document was classified — even though Biden stated that he knew that during

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