On Tuesday, former Special Counsel Robert Hur was grilled by Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) over his decision to not charge President Biden’s ghostwriter after he destroyed evidence pertaining to Hur’s investigation of Biden’s handling of classified documents.
“What does somebody have to do to get charged with obstruction of justice by you?” Gaetz asked Hur, suggesting that the special counsel let Mark Zwonitzer, who ghost wrote Biden’s memoir “Promise Me, Dad,” off the hook for deleting evidence.
Hur’s much-publicized report on the classified documents probe revealed that Zwonitzer erased audio files in his possession, which contained “significant evidentiary value” related to the documents held by Biden.
Hur’s report states, “Zwonitzer’s later actions – including the production to the special counsel of transcripts that mention classified information – suggest that his decision to delete the recordings was not aimed at concealing those materials from investigators. Significantly, Zwonitzer voluntarily consented to two interviews and could have, but did not, invoke the Fifth Amendment to decline to produce the transcripts, his laptop, and the external hard drive. And when FBI agents contacted Zwonitzer, they were unaware that audio recordings existed or where Zwonitzer’s electronic devices were located.”
Hur’s report also noted, however, that Zwonitzer “was aware that there was an investigation,” when he deleted the evidence, and admitted so to the FBI. He denied that he deleted them to prevent investigators from finding them.
He also said in the report of the ongoing probe, “I’m not going to say how much of the percentage it was of my motivation.”
“So, the ghostwriter purposefully deletes this evidence that seems to … show culpability of Biden’s crimes, and you don’t charge him?” Gaetz asked.
Hur said Zwonitzer told investigators he was “aware that I had been appointed special counsel and was conducting an investigation.”
Gaetz interrupted, saying, “Just so everybody knows, the ghostwriter didn’t delete the recordings just as a matter of happenstance. Ghostwriter has recordings of Biden making admissions of crime. He then learns that you’ve been appointed. He then deletes the information that is the evidence, and you don’t charge him?”
Gaetz then asked what someone would have to do to be charged, asking, “If, like, deleting evidence of crimes doesn’t count, what would meet the standard?”
Hur explained the decision by saying that as he noted in his report, Zwonitzer did not delete “transcripts of the recordings that he had created, that included inculpatory evidence relating to Mr. Biden.”
Gaetz, however, questioned the justification for how Hur handled the ghostwriter.
“Oh, so, if you destroy some evidence but not other evidence that somehow absolves you of the evidence you destroy,” he said. “Like, here’s what I see. Zwonitzer should have been charged, wasn’t. Biden and Trump should have been treated equally. They weren’t. And that is the double standard that I think a lot of Americans are concerned about.”
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