During a Capitol Hill hearing on Tuesday, Robert Hur got into a contentious back-and-forth with Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) over how his special counsel report on President Joe Biden’s handling of classified documents while out of office dealt with the thorny issue of the commander-in-chief’s foggy memory.
Schiff charged that Hur must have known he was injecting his “personal, prejudicial, subjective opinion” into the report — which described Biden as a “sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory” whom a jury likely would not convict “of a serious felony that requires a mental state of willfulness” — that political rivals could seize upon in an election season.
When Schiff tried to pivot to the criminal documents case against former President Donald Trump, Hur brought the conversation back to what the California Democrat had just said about the…
