Steve Benen is a producer for 'The Rachel Maddow Show,' the editor of MaddowBlog and an MSNBC political contributor. He's also the bestselling author of 'The Impostors: How Republicans Quit Governing and Seized American Politics.'
It was roughly five weeks ago when former special counsel Robert Hur announced what nearly everyone expected him to announce: After months of investigation into President Joe Biden inadvertently taking classified documents several years ago, the prosecutor decided not to indict the incumbent president. That should’ve effectively ended the matter. It did not.
It’s likely that the prosecutor expected pushback from congressional Democrats, who’ve made no secret of their frustrations with Hur’s gratuitous cheap shots at the president. But the panel’s GOP members appeared just as eager, if not more so, to rake the former special counsel over the coals — because Hur hadn’t gone nearly far enough for them to help undermine Biden.
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