Special Counsel Robert Hur said on March 12 that his report about President Joe Biden allegedly mishandling classified information did not exonerate the occupant of the Oval Office.
During an almost-five-hour House Judiciary Committee hearing, Mr. Hur said multiple times that, while he decided not to criminally charge the president, the report did not clear him of wrongdoing—a contradiction of the committee’s ranking member, Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-N.Y.), and Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.) saying otherwise.
“I need to go back and make sure that I take note of a word that you used, ‘exoneration,’” said Mr. Hur. “That is not a word that we used in the report, and that’s not part of my task as a prosecutor….
