'Amateur memory specialists': Jamie Raskin scolds Republicans at special counsel hearing
Rep. Jamie Raskin (R-MD) blasted House Republicans as "amateur memory specialists" after they used special counsel Robert Hur's report to smear President Joe Biden.
During a hearing about Hur's investigation of classified records retained by Biden, Raskin pointed out that the special counsel had not changed his mind about the decision not to charge the president.
"You also repeatedly contrast Biden's cooperation with the conduct of Donald Trump," Raskin noted. "According to the indictment, [Trump] not only refused to return the documents for many months, but he also obstructed justice by enlisting others to destroy evidence and then to lie about it."
"I continue to stand by those words in my report," Hur confirmed.
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Raskin scolded Republicans for focusing on a portion of Hur's report criticizing Biden's memory.
"With such a striking contrast, our colleagues have switched over from being impeachment investigators for constitutional high crimes and misdemeanors, which is how this whole thing started, to being amateur memory specialists," Raskin said, "giving us their drive-by diagnoses of the president of the United States, whose soaring oratory, powerful historical analysis, and devastating extemporaneous repartee with even the most skilled ninja hecklers of the Freedom Caucus were on full display at the State of the Union address last week for the whole country to see."
"The desperate quest to invent an issue is a distraction from the 91 federal and state federal charges that Donald Trump faces now, his staggering civil court losses in New York, now totaling more than a half a billion dollars," he continued, "and his full-blown embrace and romance with authoritarian dictators and communist tyrants all over the world, from Viktor Orban in Hungary to Vladimir Putin in Russia, the former head of the KGB, to the communist dictator of North Korea."