From impeccable officer to Trump’s ‘mole’

At 51, Hur was chosen by Attorney General Merrick Garland to investigate whether Biden committed a crime in 2017 by taking a series of confidential papers from the vice president. The answer is negative, but Hurr, in a detailed and monumental report spanning nearly 400 pages, states that Biden has seriously impaired memory and cognition given his advancing age.

Hur is an attorney and former federal prosecutor who has held senior positions in the Justice Department. He served as Deputy Attorney General for the National Security Division from 2018 to 2021 under President Donald Trump. In this position he supervised matters related to national security, terrorism and other important areas of law, with an impeccable track record. Previously, he was a federal prosecutor in Maryland, where he oversaw major cases including organized crime, drug trafficking, and other federal crimes.

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Until he published his report, he was an example of impartiality, as defined by the White House itself a year earlier, a man with a “long and distinguished” career.

As usually happens when faced with such a shock, the government changed its strategy the same day Hur published his report, and the attacks continued: Today he’s kind of a Trump mole, an angry Republican, an American and telegenic version of all the evils of so-called ‘Lawfare’, the alleged political use of the judicial process. Democratic senators accused him of going too far, allowing opinions about the president’s personal life and political interests if Trump wins.

The prosecutor, for his part, remains silent. He wrote everything he had to say in his report.