'Rotten fruit thrown at you': Robert Hur speaks out on vitriol after Biden report

[mysteryowl]

The former special counsel who investigated Joe Biden’s handling of classified documents has said he is stunned at “the level of vitriol” that greeted him across the US’s political spectrum after he declined to prosecute the president yet [betrayed] portrayed him in a report as an “elderly man with a poor memory”.

“I knew it was going to be unpleasant” taking on the investigation, Robert Hur told The New Yorker in a lengthy interview Friday, more than a week after he appeared at a congressional hearing in which both Democrats and Republicans heavily criticized him. “But the level of vitriol – it’s hard to know exactly how intense that’s going to be until the rotten fruit is being thrown at you.”
[snip]
Meanwhile, Republicans who were enthusiastic about Hur’s thoughts on Biden’s memory were simultaneously furious that he had refused to file charges against the president. Their preferred candidate, Donald Trump, on the other hand, faces more than 80 criminal charges for not only his handling of classified materials after his presidency – but also for attempting to subvert his 2020 electoral defeat to Biden and in connection with hush-money payments.
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Garland’s selection of Hur – a former US attorney appointed during Trump’s presidency – was meant to protect the Biden White House from appearances of a conflict of interest or political interference.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/mar/23/robert-hur-criticism-special-counsel-biden-report

So, some of the take-away I get from this is just how violent the Qanon-RW trumpers are.
I don't recall liberals doing anything like this. We were mighty pissed off about Mueller and Comey, for example.[/b]

[marble falls]

1. So now he's learned: he should keep his personal bullshit off a report.

[spooky3]

36. He SHOULD have learned that, but it appears he's blaming

The people who are pissed.

He broke the rule, also broken by Comey, that if you don’t have evidence to charge someone, you don’t smear them.

[NanaCat]

2. Nobody's thrown fruit at you, you exaggerating simpleton

Criminy, all of these GQP traitors are so bloody thin-skinned that you could see how desiccated their synapses are.

[jaxexpat]

17. Not a vision I'd meditate upon with alacrity or intention to sleep well.

But that "bloody thin-skinned......desiccated.....synapses", stuff is some fine word-smithing, there, Pardner. It's art. Horror art, but none-the-less, art.

[Silent3]

3. Oh, yeah, here it is...

[grumpyduck]

46. That's a bass fiddle compared

to the one I would play for him.

[hlthe2b]

4. This is hardly unexpected when one "tries to split the baby" to offset RW belligerent demands

for retribution, rather than a professional, impartial investigation. Had Hur not tried to throw them a "bone" by including disparaging comments suggesting Biden was senile--that which the MAGATs already were trying to use as memes in the campaign against him--then DOJ colleagues and even Democrats would have defended him and the process.

So, his nasty little tactic did not go as expected and he's left floundering.

[Walleye]

19. Definitely took the coward's way out

[PatrickforB]

42. Yes, you know that report COULD have been a paragraph long. Seriously.

The DOJ conducted a thorough investigation of President Biden's alleged misuse of top secret documents. Though he did discover top secret documents in his possession, he discovered these, notified the DOJ, promptly returned the documents and cooperated fully with the investigation, including permitting a thorough search of his residences. The DOJ found insufficient evidence to bring criminal charges against President Biden.

That's ALL he needed to say.

[Sky Jewels]

5. Good.

FA, FO.

[paleotn]

6. Hur got his 15 minutes. Now let him drift off back into obscurity.

Like the old saying goes....be careful what you wish for, Mr. Hur.

[Takket]

7. hmm, funny I don't like Hur, he's a partisan hack. But partisan hacks gonna partisan hack

i'm much more upset with the person that allowed a completely inappropriate hit piece on the President out onto the street, instead of demanding it be rewritten to stick to the facts and not editorializing.

[mysteryowl]

11. I'm with you.

Garland needs to go!

[PJMcK]

8. Boo fucking hoo, Hur

Your MAGA leanings were obvious from your report. Now you know how the vitriol your side throws at ANYONE who doesn’t do their bidding.

Fuck off, loser. You’re as thin-skinned as Trump and just as petulant. Grow up.

[PatSeg]

32. "Boo fucking hoo, Hur"

Sounds like a line from a Dr. Seuss book. Has a certain ring to it.

[PJMcK]

54. "Boo fucking hoo, Hur," said Horton in Whoville! (n/t)

[PatSeg]

55. Oh yes, perfect!

I said it out loud!

[The Unmitigated Gall]

9. His report was unprofessional and biased.

It and he deserve the panning they’ve received.

He’s the latest in a looong line of professional people to hand over their credibility to a really bad guy

[yardwork]

10. I doubt anybody actually threw anything at him.

He's exaggerating, as usual.

[mysteryowl]

12. Good point, or it happened once.

[2naSalit]

14. He seems to have quite...

The imagination which makes me think the fruit throwing bit is an embellishment at best.

[PatSeg]

31. Yes

Once you get caught intentionally exaggerating, there is no obligation to take you seriously again. It would have been best to just sit down and shut up and hope people forget what a dishonest person you are.

[usaf-vet]

33. I disagree someone(s) threw him a promise of a SCOTUS seat in the future if he took down POTUS 46.

The Federalist Society is in this up to their ears. That would be my guess.

[jimfields33]

53. Getting to old. MAGA wants 30 and 40 year old justices

[usaf-vet]

56. YUP! They want long-term destroyers of our Constitution...or at least what is left of it when the current set is done...

.... with their dismantling of it brick by brick.

[RAB910]

13. So the man who directed improper vitriol at our President in his report is whining that he is on the receiving end of

vitriol. Classic MAGA double standard

[calimary]

22. He can dish it out but he can't take it. Classic cowardice.

[PatSeg]

29. Exactly

We've seen this movie before ad nauseam.

[Joinfortmill]

15. Hur lied about Joe's memory, which is likely partly why he resigned. He needs to be investigated.

[3825-87867]

16. Maybe the rotten fruit came from

MAGAts who were pissed he didn't find anything on Joe!
Never assume.

[dalton99a]

18. He lied.

[Walleye]

20. He's lucky he didn't get hit in the head with a hammer

[Mr. Evil]

24. Yeah...

and a rotten one, too!!!

[hay rick]

21. Taking a moment to remind everybody that, rotten or otherwise, tomato is a fruit.

[Johonny]

23. Theyre always the victim

Always.

[PatSeg]

28. CYA - Cover your ass

is their default setting because they are usually doing something dishonest or unseemly. He knew what he was doing. He just aligned himself with the wrong people and now he's paying for it.

[Javaman]

25. Another right wing snowflake. Fuck him. nt

[Randomthought]

26. What did he think was going to happen?

[PatSeg]

27. Aw gee, that's too bad Robert

By being intentionally dishonest, you ended up pissing off everyone. Your first mistake was trusting republicans. They are without principles or loyalty. Maybe next time just do the job you were assigned without fear or favor.

[sop]

30. "Politics ain't beanbag"

If your write a blatantly political report, you can expect blowback.

[Martin68]

34. I suspect Her included the comment on Biden's memory to bolster his conclusion that there were no grounds

for prosecution, knowing that the MAGAts would attack him for reaching that conclusion. It was a self-serving attempt to cover his ass.

[Think. Again.]

35. And here's the main problem...

"Garland’s selection of Hur – a former US attorney appointed during Trump’s presidency – was meant to protect the Biden White House from appearances of a conflict of interest or political interference."

The choice of anyone to do any job should only be based on getting the best job done.

garland selecting a hur to PROTECT anything, or to DO ANYTHING other than create a truthful, professional report, is the definition of "a conflict of interest or political interference."

[Blues Heron]

37. What a pathetic sniveling little snowflake this Hur is.

[moreland01]

38. Members of our City Council

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have had police escorts home from meetings and a patrol car posted outside their homes 4 times over the past year. Most recently it was over violent threats from pro-Hamas protesters, some of whom glued their hands to the wall of the council chambers because our council doesn't want to get involved in the Israel/Hamas situation and won't sign a resolution demanding a cease-fire.

The Magats are ushering in an era of political violence like Mexico endures. How long before these ammosexuals start assassinating candidates that don't tow the Magat line?

BTW, the fire department had to come unstick the hand gluers and handed them each tickets with a fine for their services.

[MichMan]

49. Interesting, I have not seen many pro Hamas MAGATS before

[moreland01]

58. I was attempting to make the point

that the Magats are lowering the bar on civil disobedience and making violent behavior the new norm. Activists across the political spectrum are thinking that they have to be more outrageous to capture the attention of politicians.

Threatening city councilmembers because they won't sign on to a non-binding resolution? Harassing them at their homes? This never used to happen in my town. The hand gluers were professors. Most of the protesters were mask-wearing 20-somethings. I don't think they were Magats. But they sure are taking on their violent ways.

[MichMan]

59. Anti War Protesters during Vietnam set bombs at colleges and government buildings

Violent protests are nothing new.

[Evolve Dammit]

39. This guy has done over 500 jury trials per the testimony. He knew damn well it would be the firestorm as Schiff stated.

[Paladin]

40. Boo-fucking-hoo, Hur.

And yet again: Thanks for nothing, Merrick Garland.

[Zilli]

41. Hur lied, Garland published the lie.

[DownriverDem]

43. What did he expect?

His report was a political attack.

[BootinUp]

44. He's got more mental issues than Biden. nt

[limbicnuminousity]

45. That sweet summer child

thinks he's experienced vitriol.

[Blue Owl]

47. Has-Been Hur can shove it where the sun don't shine

[usonian]

48. Overactive Imagination.

Nobody threw fruit and he bore false witness, proving that he is a political hack.

The only "good thing" about ageism is that it comes back to haunt its perpetrators, if they are lucky to live to old age.

Followers of the orange turd discover sooner or later, that all they get is to "Inherit the Wind"
from his sorry ass.

[Scrivener7]

50. Throw vitriol, get vitriol thrown at you.

[CousinIT]

51. Well, that sounds to me like what HE did to Biden in his little attack report.

So, I don't see the problem. Can dish out crap but can't take it after attacking someone else with it?

Poor little shithead.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

52. This asshole is a partisan hack who got what he deserved

[DC77]

57. What a whiny little bitch.

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Eff him.