Tapper: Robert Hur Was ‘Intellectually Honest’ in Assessing Biden’s Cognitive Decline

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TAPPER: "Justice Department officials who first saw the Hur report before it was released read it and thought, 'Oh my god, Joe Biden broke the law,' because that was — Hur had three basic conclusions. Joe Biden, without question, mishandled classified information, but he couldn‘t get — two, he couldn‘t get a conviction because — because he would appear so sympathetic and old, a well-meaning elderly man with a poor memory, to a jury, and therefore — and three, therefore, he wasn‘t going to bring charges. That enraged both sides. But our reporting is that this was really an intellectually honest argument. He came to the conclusion Biden did mishandle this, but Biden seemed so addled in that — in those five hours of interviews that they did."