Ahead of President Biden’s election, he declared in a 2020 letter to Rep. Jennifer Wexton, D-Va., that “[a]s president, I will provide agencies with the funding they need, respect the independence and rely on the expertise of career civil servants, and highlight their work as crucial to our government’s functioning.” He further promised to show government officials “the utmost dignity and respect,” according to website Government Executive.
In his administration’s response to special counsel Robert Hur’s recently published report, however, Biden and his staff appear to have taken a different approach. The White House is seething over the report’s comments on Biden’s poor memory and some personnel are even claiming Hur acted both improperly and with political motivation.