Christie: Hur Report Stayed within Boundaries

Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie told NBC’s “Meet the Press” on Sunday that special counsel Robert Hur’s report probing President Joe Biden’s handling of classified documents did not cross any lines, despite its unflattering description of the president.

Hur, who released his report on Biden’s classified documents last week, did not recommend that any charges be filed against the president but stated that Biden was “a sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory,” as The Hill reported.

Biden and his supporters have criticized the report as “inappropriate” and “politically motivated” for its portrayal of the president.

Christie, who previously served as the U.S. attorney for New Jersey for seven years, highlighted that “the fact is they had to give the reasons why they weren’t prosecuting, when you start off [the] report by saying that he ‘willfully and knowingly retained classified documents.’ Well, that’s a violation of the law.”

The former New Jersey governor explained that, “so, the question for the prosecutor is then, ‘Why aren’t you bringing charges?’ And he gave two reasons, essentially. One was President Biden’s lack of memory and his cooperation when the documents were discovered.”

Christie also criticized claims by many Republicans that there is a two-tiered system of justice, emphasizing that “in fact if there was a two-tiered system of justice, what would have happened would have been they just would have announced that they weren’t prosecuting him and they wouldn’t have given any of the reasons.”

He stressed that “I think the Biden White House would have been happier if he had been charged than for that report to have come out in the midst of a reelection campaign. The fact is: When you’re questioning what 70-some percent of the American people are already questioning – whether Joe Biden is too old for the job — and now you have an independent counsel, a special counsel, appointed by his own justice department, concluding that he couldn’t bring a trial for that reason, that’s much more damaging, politically, than whether people would have agreed or disagreed with him being charged.”