It turns out, as NBC has reported, the whole thing about Robert Hur daring to bring up Beau and quiz Biden about his death was a fabrication. The president probably believed what he said at his outraged press conference, but the White House could have checked the transcripts if it cared about getting this right. Also, the NBC piece pours cold water on the whole idea that Hur is some kind of MAGA extremist:
It was Garland who selected Hur, a longtime Republican and former federal prosecutor, as Biden special counsel. After graduating from Harvard University and Stanford Law School, Hur held multiple positions in the Justice Department, including serving as counsel to Christopher Wray, now the director of the FBI, when Wray was in charge of the department’s criminal division.
During the Trump administration, Hur was a top adviser to then-Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, who was overseeing Mueller’s Trump-Russia investigation. Rosenstein said Hur is neither an ardent Trump supporter nor a partisan activist
“Rob plays it straight,” Rosenstein said in an interview. “I think he wrote in that report what he believed to be the relevant facts in play as to whether or not to bring criminal charges.”
From 2018 to 2021, Hur served as the U.S. attorney for Maryland, and won plaudits from the state’s Democratic senators, Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen, who praised his “excellent service” and said he “faithfully followed the facts and the law.”