HuffPost Article RatingSpecial Counsel Hur Set To Testify Over Handling Of Biden Documents Case
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| "The need to show my work was especially strong here, he says in his prepared remarks." | Positive | 30% Conservative |
| "They also hope to highlight what they say is unfair treatment by Attorney General Merrick Garland of Donald Trump, who has been charged with willfully retaining classified documents." | Negative | -52% Liberal |
| "He comes into the hearing with a wealth of experience with politically charged investigations, both as a top Justice Department official during the Trump administration and as Maryland's chief federal law enforcement officer." | Positive | 8% Conservative |
| "Mr. Biden would likely present himself to a jury, as he did during our interview of him, as a sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory, Hur wrote in his report." | Positive | 2% Conservative |
| "FBI agents searched Trump's Florida estate in 2022 and removed boxes of documents after he refused requests from the National Archives to return them.House committees have also subpoenaed the Justice Department for records into the Biden investigation, including transcripts, notes, video, and audio files." | Negative | -6% Liberal |
| "Hur's report did cite evidence that Biden willfully held on to highly classified information and shared it with a ghostwriter." | Negative | -10% Liberal |
| "The special counsel who impugned the president's age and competence in his report on how Joe Biden handled classified documents after his years as vice president is set to be questioned himself on Tuesday, as House Republicans seek to keep a spotlight on the unflattering assessment of the president." | Negative | -12% Liberal |
| "Lawmakers on both sides will try to turn the hearing to their political advantage: Hur will be the rare witness likely to be vilified all around, by Republicans angry over his decision not to charge the president, and by Democrats for his commentary about Biden." | Negative | -12% Liberal |
| "Robert Hur will appear before the Judiciary Committee to take hours of questions from Republicans and Democrats on his 345-page report, made public last month, in which he concluded that Biden should not face criminal charges for his handling of sensitive government information when he was vice president." | Negative | -14% Liberal |
| "Biden told investigators he didn't remember finding any classified material in his home after his vice presidency or telling his ghostwriter that he found classified stuff downstairs, Hur said." | Negative | -16% Liberal |
| "In part, he argued, jurors could be swayed that Biden's age made him seem forgetful, and there was the possibility for iocent explanations for the mishandling of any records." | Negative | -16% Liberal |
| "Democrats will try to paint Hur, a Trump-appointed former U.S. attorney, as a political partisan out to help his party win a presidential election." | Negative | -16% Liberal |
| "Democrats on the committee have been preparing for the hearing for weeks, with staff bringing in constitutional lawyer Norm Eisen, who served as former President Barack Obama's ethics czar, to help strategize the best line of questioning, according to a congressional aide." | Negative | -16% Liberal |
| "Republicans, who have been eagerly investigating the president, including a floundering effort to impeach him, will press Hur on Biden's mental acuity." | Negative | -18% Liberal |
| "The report's release triggered instant comparisons to the history-shaping events of 2016, when FBI Director James Comey castigated Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton over her email practices but did not recommend pressing charges." | Negative | -22% Liberal |
| "And Biden also didn't remember how the documents about Afghanistan got into his garage, Hur said." | Negative | -24% Liberal |
| "The special counsel who impugned the president's age and competence in his report on how Joe Biden handled classified documents is set to be questioned himself." | Negative | -26% Liberal |
| "Hur said it could be difficult to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that Biden intended to keep the documents, which is the standard for conviction in a criminal case." | Negative | -30% Liberal |
| "They hope to highlight the fact that despite what they see as inappropriate commentary from Hur about Biden's age and memories, the special counsel ultimately exonerated him of any criminal wrongdoing." | Negative | -32% Liberal |
| "Republicans will work to dig further into Hur's unflattering assessment of the president's age and memory -- a major attack line as they seek to unseat Biden." | Negative | -38% Liberal |
| "In both the Biden and Clinton cases, the language used to characterize the subjects has been as closely scrutinized -- and criticized -- as the decision not to prosecute." | Negative | -48% Liberal |
| "In both the Biden and Clinton cases, the language used to characterize the subjects has been as closely scrutinized -- and criticized -- as the decision not to prosecute." | Negative | -48% Liberal |
| "They also hope to highlight what they say is unfair treatment by Attorney General Merrick Garland of Donald Trump, who has been charged with willfully retaining classified documents." | Negative | -28% Liberal |
| "Special Counsel Robert Hur's investigation into President Biden's mishandling of classified documents made two things clear: there's a double standard of justice in this country, and Joe Biden isn't fit for office, Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, said recently." | Negative | -24% Liberal |
| "Special Counsel Robert Hur's investigation into President Biden's mishandling of classified documents made two things clear: there's a double standard of justice in this country, and Joe Biden isn't fit for office, Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, said recently." | Negative | -24% Liberal |
| "Special Counsel Robert Hur's investigation into President Biden's mishandling of classified documents made two things clear: there's a double standard of justice in this country, and Joe Biden isn't fit for office, Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, said recently." | Negative | -24% Liberal |
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65% : "The need to show my work was especially strong here," he says in his prepared remarks.24% : They also hope to highlight what they say is unfair treatment by Attorney General Merrick Garland of Donald Trump, who has been charged with willfully retaining classified documents.
*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.