House Republicans were quick to push out anti-Joe Biden talking points after the special counsel released a report exonerating the president.
The Republican special counsel was a Donald Trump appointee held over from his administration. He was given the job to remove even an appearance of impropriety.
But after the special counsel characterized Biden as a doddering, old fool who could never be convicted, House Republicans proclaimed on social media that no person should be in the Oval Office if they can't manage classified documents.
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It's a problem because the leading Republican candidate for president, Trump, is being prosecuted for stealing documents from the White House and refusing to return them even after being subpoenaed.
“A man too incapable of being held accountable for mishandling classified information is certainly unfit for the Oval Office," the House Republicans sent out en masse on social media.
"Irony is a thing," said an account going by Millard Fillmore.
An account identifying the person as a "retired nurse" pointed out the number of times Donald Trump used the phrase "I don't recall" in the statement he gave to special counsel Robert Mueller in the Russia probe. The questionnaire was mocked at the time as the "take-home test" because the questions were given to him to have his lawyers fill out for him.
"Hypocrisy, thy name is GOP," the retiree said.
"Are you &$#% serious?!?!?" exclaimed Rich Feinberg. "Two words: Donald Trump!!!!"
Shelley Kersey replied to Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA), saying, "Just change President Biden to Donald Trump, and you might finally have a solid argument. Making this ridiculous argument while Trump had to have documents physically taken back shows you don't deserve your position and you're just a Trump lackey."
"Sorry lady. Donald Trump WASN’T president when he took those top secret documents. He lost the election then STOLE the documents on his way out. Then refused to give them back when caught. The real question should be what was he planning to do with them. He’s a danger to the USA," Joie Arraro replied to conservative Jeanine Pirro.
The House Republicans weren't the only ones drawing ridicule. Special counsel Robert Hur did as well for some glaring errors in his report.
National security expert Marcy Wheeler went into detail about the report in a thread on the social media site "X." Among the things she points out is the special counsel's own confusion about the laws around documents.
"If a former VP writes something based on memory that is classified onto a notecard after he leaves Naval Observatory, what does the law say? Because Hur is REALLY squirrely here about timing and it's not in [the] list," she said.
President Biden's attorney, Bob Bauer, put out a statement accusing the special counsel of making things up. Wheeler noted this is a problem, because on page 86 in the "work reflections" section, she says that Hur's footnote seems to be made up.
