Hur’s testimony undermines some key GOP claims on Biden

Republicans and Democrats were somewhat unsure what to do Tuesday with former special counsel Robert K. Hur, the man who declined to accuse President Biden of criminally retaining classified documents while also highlighting Biden’s memory problems.

A case in point: A Democratic congressman accused Hur of using his report to “trash and smear” Biden and to help Donald Trump, even as a Republican pilloried him as “part of the Praetorian Guard that guards the swamp out here in Washington, D.C., protecting the elites.”

But on several key points in his testimony Tuesday, Hur did poke holes in the GOP’s attempts to leverage his report against Biden.

House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) offered characteristically sweeping and oversimplified claims about what Hur’s report had shown.