Robert Hur, in his opening testimony, explains why he declined to recommend charging President Biden for mishandling classified records. He defends his assessment in the report and states that he analyzed the evidence thoroughly.
Robert Hur , in his prepared opening testimony to the House Judiciary Committee , will say his 'report reflects my best effort to explain why I declined to recommend charging President Biden ' for his mishandling of classified records. 'My assessment in the report about the relevance of the President’s memory was necessary and accurate and fair,' Hur wrote in a copy of the remarks obtained by Fox News.
'Most importantly, what I wrote is what I believe the evidence shows, and what I expect jurors would perceive and believe. I did not sanitize my explanation. Nor did I disparage the President unfairly. I explained to the Attorney General my decision and the reasons for it. That’s what I was required to do.' 'I analyzed the evidence as prosecutors routinely do: by assessing its strengths and weaknesses, including by anticipating the ways in which the President’s defense lawyers might poke holes in the government’s case if there were a trial and seek to persuade jurors that the government could not prove his guilt beyond a reasonable doubt,' Hur adde
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