Dems Might Want to Go After Robert Hur. It Could Backfire Big Time.

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

59% : After winning the 2016 election, Donald Trump tapped Rosenstein to be his first deputy attorney general, and Rosenstein enlisted Hur to serve as his principal deputy -- the same position, as it happens, that also catapulted Garland to national prominence nearly 30 years ago.
46% : Among other things, they point to a White House appearance in 2017 during which he delivered remarks about gang violence that, according to critics, undermined public confidence in the Justice Department's political independence.
21% : And in the future, if Trump is reelected, Hur's report would also make it very difficult for a Trump Justice Department to resuscitate potential charges against Biden over the documents.
20% : Hur was also under no obligation to explain in clear and unequivocal terms that Biden's conduct concerning classified documents was far less egregious than that alleged against Trump, but he did so anyway.
9% : "In another sign of his political independence, it later emerged that Hur had declined to prosecute former Secretary of State John Kerry after Trump publicly targeted the longtime Democrat over the nuclear deal with Iran that was brokered during the Obama administration.

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