Robert Hur accused by ex-DOJ colleague of looking to 'safeguard' his future with Trump

During an appearance on MSNBC on Saturday morning, a senior adviser to Attorney General Merrick Garland claimed he had high hopes for special counsel Robert Hur when he was chosen to investigate President Joe Biden and now admits it was a terrible mistake.

Speaking with the hosts on MSNBC's "The Weekend," ex-DOJ official Anthony Coley said the attorney general goofed by selecting Hur who appears to be auditioning for a job in a future Trump administration.

As he told the hosts, "I was at the Justice Department at the time of this appointment. I talked to Robert Hur myself as head of the Office of Human Affairs and we all had high hopes that Robert Hur would do what he was assigned to do and that is to call the balls and strikes as they are and to be apolitical."

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"In retrospect, and I say this as somebody who has a great deal of respect for the attorney general, in retrospect, the attorney general made the wrong choice in selecting Robert Hur to be the special counsel," he continued. "I think he should have, Garland should have appointed a special counsel who was perhaps at the end of a distinguished legal career and not someone who was midcareer Robert Hur in his early 50s."

"In my opinion, he wrote a report that was designed to safeguard his employment in a future Republican administration."

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