Washington Post associate editor Jonathan Capehart and New York Times columnist David Brooks joined PBS NewsHour host Amna Nawaz on Friday to recap the week’s biggest stories, including Special Counsel Robert Hur’s report that claimed he could not win a conviction in President Joe Biden’s classified documents case because a jury would view him as a sympathetic old man with memory problems. For both men, but especially Capehart, the report was both “terrific,” but also “gratuitous.”
On the decision not to charge Biden, Capehart claimed it was “great, the decision, you know, not charging the president, terrific.”
Capehart proceeded to argue that Biden’s case was fundamentally different than Donald Trump’s, “He lied about handing them all over. And that’s why he was indicted. And so anyone who’s trying to conflate the two…
