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The political press runs with Hur’s scurrilous partisan attack | Media Matters for America
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In a Sunday, February 11 op-ed for MSNBC, Vanity Fair correspondent Molly Jong-Fast emphasizes, "If Democrats truly want to prevail" in November, then the party must "think back to the Comey years and let them serve as a lesson, lest they become a curse."
The Fast politics with Molly Jong-Fast host reflects on October 28, 2016, the day former Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Director James Comey released his letter. The letter that many say likely won Donald Trump the election over Hillary Clinton. FiveThirtyEight notes, "The letter, which said the FBI had 'learned of the existence of emails that appear to be pertinent to the investigation' into the private email server that Clinton used as secretary of state, upended the news cycle and soon halved Clinton’s lead in the polls, imperiling her position in the Electoral College."
Jong-Fast writes, "The Comey letter had created just enough muddiness to make it seem like both candidates were ethically challenged. It was the false equivalence that Trump was able to ride to the White House." She also emphasizes letter "led to almost nonstop speculation about what was in those emails," while "the mainstream media spent the following week and a half obsessing about the story when not freaking out about Clinton almost fainting and Clinton having pneumonia."
READ MORE:**Mitt Romney defends Biden from 'politically charged' special counsel report**
The MSNBC contributor points to special counsel Robert Hur's February 8 345-page report, essentially "exonerating" President Joe Biden of any charges over his handling of classified documents.
She writes:
*But Hur, who used to work for the Trump administration, couldn’t let Biden off the hook entirely, especially 269 days before an election. Hur, a member of a Republican Party that now largely works as a campaign arm for the former president, delivered the goods for his party. Sure, he found no legal basis to charge Biden, but but but… Hur proceeded toeditorialize ad nauseam about Biden’s mental acuity, delivering right-wing talking points up on a platter. He wrote, '[At] trial, Mr. Biden would likely present himself to a jury, as he did during our interview of him, as a sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory.'
Jong-Fast encourages Democrats, despite their collective "outrage" over the report, "to exercise some self-reflection here. [Attorney General Merrick] Garland didn’t need to appoint a Republican special counsel. Garland didn’t need to let Hur release this report filled with talking points for the right-wing media echo chamber. Hur may be a partisan, but Garland let this happen."
She emphasizes while the GOP continues to weaponize the federal government, and just attempted "to impeach a Cabinet secretary for not doing enough for the border while refusing to even vote on a border security bill," Democratic lawmakers "are living in 2012, trying to pretend that we don’t live in a world of hyperpartisanship."
READ MORE:Ex-Trump White House lawyer: Special counsel Hur acted like 'prosecutor, judge and jury'
*Jong-Fast's full op-ed is here.
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Mitt Romney defends Biden from 'politically charged' special counsel report - Alternet.org bob hur BS
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u .S. Attorney Robert K. Hur, who had scored a series of high-profile political corruption convictions and launched anti-gang initiatives in Baltimore, is resigning as chief federal prosecutor in Maryland.
Hur said Wednesday that he will resign his post Feb. 15 and be replaced on an interim basis by assistant Jonathan F. Lenzner.
Hur’s resignation enables President Joe Biden to nominate a new U.S. attorney for Maryland, subject to U.S. Senate confirmation. Hur was appointed U.S. attorney three years ago by Donald Trump, Biden’s immediate predecessor, succeeding longtime U.S. Attorney for Maryland Rod Rosenstein.
Hur’s office had obtained convictions in several notable political corruption cases, among them:
- Former Baltimore City Mayor Catherine Pugh,
- Former Baltimore City Police Commissioner Darryl DeSousa,
- Former Del. Cheryl Glenn,
- Former Del. Tawanna Gaines,
- Members of the Baltimore City Police Department in connection with the Gun Trace Task Force investigation, and
- Correctional officers at numerous state correctional facilities, including Eastern Correctional Institution, Jessup Correctional Institution, Maryland Correctional Institute Jessup, and Chesapeake Detention Facility.
Hur had also made violent crime in Baltimore a top priority, launching several initiatives aimed at curbing the historically high levels of gun violence driven by drug-trafficking organizations in the city. The U.S. Attorney’s Office and local, state, and federal law enforcement agencies launched the Baltimore OCDETF Strike Force, aimed at disrupting and dismantling the most violent gangs and their financial infrastructure in the Baltimore metropolitan area.
“I will always be grateful to have served as U.S. Attorney and helped further the Office’s proud legacy of pursuing justice with integrity, and without fear or favor,” Hur said in a statement.
“I’m humbled by the bravery, creativity, and resilience that my colleagues have shown every day during my three years as U.S. Attorney,” he added. “Together, we’ve worked tirelessly to bring criminals to justice, protect and provide recourse to victims and witnesses, and defend our nation against adversaries both foreign and domestic. We protected our traditions of integrity and continued our commitment to justice in the face of daunting challenges, including the longest federal government shutdown ever, tragic acts of violent extremism, and a frightening pandemic.”
Hur submitted his resignation on Wednesday, two weeks to the day after Biden took office. The choice of a successor will be heavily influenced by Maryland’s two U.S. senators, Ben Cardin and Christopher Van Hollen, both Democrats.
Traditionally, the appointment of a U.S. attorney is done in consultation with a state’s two senators, and the fact that Biden, Cardin and Van Hollen are in the same party will undoubtedly make that a more collegial decision.
Under Hur’s leadership, the U.S. Attorney’s Office successfully prosecuted Christopher Hasson, a former Coast Guard officer who amassed an arsenal of weapons in preparation for violence inspired by extremist, white-supremacist views.
Prosecutors also had charged Rondell Henry with attempting to provide material support to the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS), in connection with his plans to drive a motor vehicle into crowds and inflict mass civilian casualties at National Harbor.
Hur had worked closely with Rod Rosenstein while Rosenstein was the deputy attorney general at Justice Department headquarters and previously in Maryland, and he had been a special assistant to now-FBI director Christopher Wray.
Before becoming an aide to Rosenstein, Hur was a partner at King & Spalding LLP in Washington, handling criminal and regulatory cases before federal agencies including the Justice Department and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
A graduate of Harvard College and Stanford Law School, Hur started his career as a law clerk to former Chief Justice of the United States William Rehnquist.
[### Robert Hur
The Federalist Society
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Hur was a litigation partner with a major law firm in Washington, D.C., where he represented companies and individuals facing criminal and regulatory ...
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[### Robert K. Hur
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Robert Kyoung Hur (born 1973) is an American lawyer who served as the United States Attorney for the District of Maryland from 2018 to 2021.
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[### Robert Hur | Commentary
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Feb 3, 2021 — Baltimore, Maryland – United States Attorney Robert K. Hur announced today that he will resign his position as the chief federal law ...
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2 days ago — Sure, special counsel Robert Hur absolved President Biden of any criminality in retaining classified documents after his vice presidency.
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Jan 12, 2023 — Robert Hur, a former U.S. attorney for Maryland nominated by then-President Donald Trump, will serve as special counsel to investigate the ...
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