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In reply to the discussion: I am perplexed, troubled, and yet unsurprised by all the vitriol being directed at Garland and Hur [View all]Ocelot II
(116,503 posts)furthering the narrative that he's too old and infirm. That, of course, is what everyone is pouncing on, when the facts that should be shouted to the rooftops is that he did nothing that warrants prosecution. My own opinion, for what it's worth, is to stop carrying on about the report except to point out that Biden - unlike Trump - has been exonerated for his handling of documents, and that retaining them was inadvertent and not deliberate. No search warrants or months of negotiations were needed to get the documents back. Biden didn't try to conceal them or claim he was entitled to keep them. Was Hur a holdover Trump loyalist who couldn't find a crime so he decided on an insult instead? Maybe, but so what? The important thing - the only important thing - is that the report found no crime. Period. The end. And bashing Garland certainly serves no purpose. All of this is a small tempest in a much larger teapot with much more serious tempests going on; Biden will continue to show the world that he's not senile and the report will be forgotten. But the more we jaw and whine about it, the longer that will take.