I'm going to cover Robert Hur's testimony to the House Judiciary Committee in this thread. Follow along for highlights 👇
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Jim Jordan just showed roughly 10 minutes of video of Biden talking for reasons that escape me and Nadler dinged him on it immediately lol
Nadler: "House Republicans may be desperate to convince America that white conservative men are on the losing end of a two-tiered justice system -- a theory that appeals to the MAGA crowd but has no basis in reality."
Oof -- Nadler put together a brutal supercut of Trump gaffing and shorting out
Raskin: "What America sees today is evidence of one president who believes in the rule of law and works to protect it. And one who has nothing but contempt for the rule of law and acts solely in pursuit of his own constantly multiplying corrupt schemes."
Nadler to Hur: "You have been a prosecutor for a long time. Would you agree that there is no such thing as being a little bit charged for a crime?"
Nadler while questioning Hur contrasts Biden cooperating with investigators with Trump's egregious obstruction
I didn't fully appreciate that the dynamic of this hearing is that everybody is mad at Hur. Dems are mad at him for his obvious hit job on Biden, and Rs are mad at him because his hit job didn't go far enough and result in a prosecution.
Raskin: "Our colleagues have switched over from being impeachment investigators -- which is how this whole thing started -- to be amateur memory specialists, giving us their drive-by diagnoses of the POTUS."