CV NEWS FEED // Republican lawmakers joined former President Donald Trump in slamming Special Counsel Robert Hur’s decision not to charge President Joe Biden with a crime.
The prosecutor’s report this week cited and provided detailed accounts of Biden exhibiting “significant” memory loss.
Trump – who is gearing up for an increasingly likely rematch with Biden in November – released a statement blasting the special counsel report.
“THIS HAS NOW PROVEN TO BE A TWO-TIERED SYSTEM OF JUSTICE AND UNCONSTITUTIONAL SELECTIVE PROSECUTION!” the Republican frontrunner wrote.
The 45th president compared Hur’s investigation into Biden’s alleged mishandling of classified documents to Trump’s own document-related investigation, which was spearheaded by Special Counsel Jack Smith.
Hur decided not to prosecute Biden despite admitting that the incumbent president “willfully retained classified material.” On the other hand, Smith’s probe into Trump resulted in 37 felony charges. Trump has pleaded “not guilty” to all of them.
Biden administration Attorney General Merrick Garland appointed both Hur and Smith as special counsels.
“The Biden Documents Case is 100 times different and more severe than mine,” Trump stated. “I did nothing wrong, and I cooperated far more.”
He called Biden’s actions “outrageously criminal.”
“[Biden] had 50 years of documents, 50 times more than I had, and ‘WILLFULLY RETAINED’ them,” Trump stressed. “I was covered by the Presidential Records Act, Secret Service was always around.”
“ELECTION INTERFERENCE,” the former president concluded.
A chorus of Congressional Republicans agreed with Trump that Hur’s recommendation of no charges against Biden was evidence of a “two-tiered system of justice.”
House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, R-LA, wrote on X Friday that Hur’s report revealed three things: “Biden willfully disclosed classified info,” “His actions risked national security,” and “They won’t hold him accountable since his memory has ‘significant limitations.’”
“Bottom Line,” Scalise added, “[Biden is] unfit for the presidency—and there’s a two-tiered justice system.”
A joint statement released by the four highest-ranking members of House Republican leadership reiterated the argument.
The report not only “demonstrate[s] the President’s recklessness, but exposes a two-tiered system of justice,” wrote House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-LA, Scalise, House Majority Whip Tom Emmer, R-MN, and House Republican Conference Chairwoman Elise Stefanik, R-NY.
The four lawmakers stated that the Department of Justice (DOJ) “is indicting one President with politically motivated charges while carrying water for another amid similar allegations.”
“A man too incapable of being held accountable for mishandling classified information is certainly unfit for the Oval Office,” they emphasized.
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Rep. Byron Donalds, R-FL, highlighted the DOJ’s apparent double standard in more detail.
“Trump’s facing a 40-count indictment regarding classified info,” he wrote on X. “Biden was just cleared by his OWN DOJ despite finding he willfully retained classified. This is TWO-TIERED JUSTICE in action.”
Rep. Lisa McClain, R-MI, concurred.
“It looks like the two-tiered justice system will once again save this President rather than treat him the same as his predecessor for having classified documents,” the congresswoman wrote in an X post. “It’s pathetic that we all knew this would happen. Democrats work overtime to hold Biden above the law.”
Former Trump critic Rep. Nancy Mace, R-SC, made similar points.
Rep. Barry Moore, R-AL, decried that Hur’s investigation “exonerated” Biden while Smith’s probe “indicted” Trump.
Rep. Alex Mooney, R-WV, also weighed in on X.
“Americans expect equal justice under the law,” wrote Mooney, who is running for the U.S. Senate seat left open by Sen. Joe Manchin’s, D-WV, retirement. “The radicalized DOJ continues to utilize a two-tiered system of justice. One for Republicans and a very different one for ‘elderly’ Democrats.”
Sen. Roger Marshall, R-KS, referenced the president’s alleged nickname, which surfaced during the years of investigations into his son Hunter’s business dealings.
“No charges for the Big Guy,” Marshall wrote. “The two-tiered justice system hard at work.”
Marshall’s colleague, Sen. Ted Budd, R-NC, called Hur’s report “staggering.”
“Not only did it disclose reckless conduct with our nation’s secrets, but it further illustrates the two-tiered justice system,” the senator stated. “The fact that President Trump was raided and prosecuted and President Biden avoids charges due to his age and mental decline is completely outrageous.”
Outgoing Republican National Committee (RNC) Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel also issued a statement blasting the report.
“The special counsel’s report exposed two things,” McDaniel wrote in a statement:
[W]e have a two-tiered justice system, and our president is mentally unfit to lead. While the report acknowledges that Biden wilfully broke the law, it then claims that Biden is too “sympathetic” and “elderly” to be convicted. That’s absurd on its face.
As CatholicVote reported Thursday, Hur wrote “that during his official interviews of the president, Biden failed to remember the dates he served as vice president and also could not recall ‘even within several years’ when his son Beau passed away.”
Other Republican lawmakers openly suggested that Congress invoke Section 4 of the 25th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which states:
[In the event that the] President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall immediately assume the powers and duties of the office as Acting President.
Sen. Josh Hawley, R-MO, appeared to place the onus on Biden’s attorney general.
“Merrick Garland has a duty to invoke the 25th Amendment to his fellow Cabinet members,” Hawley wrote on X. “Or prosecute Biden. If he won’t prosecute, then invoke the 25th now.”
Sen. Rick Scott, R-FL, posted a recent video to X which appeared to confirm Hur’s assertion that Biden has “significantly limited” memory.
“In defending his mental sharpness, Biden just mixed up the presidents of Mexico and Egypt,” Scott observed. “This train wreck of a press conference confirms the need for the 25th Amendment.”
Rep. Mike Collins, R-GA, wrote that there has “Never been a stronger case for the 25th amendment than right now.”
Rep. Claudia Tenney, R-NY, formally called on Biden’s cabinet to “explore” the use of the 25th Amendment on their boss.
“Biden is either mentally capable to stand trial [and] should be charged for mishandling classified documents as Vice President OR he is unfit to serve as President,” Tenney wrote. “There is no middle ground.”
