The White House attacked House Republican lawmakers on Tuesday after the conclusion of former special counsel Robert Hur’s hearing on Capitol Hill.

Hur, who was appointed by then-President Donald Trump to serve as the U.S. attorney for the District of Maryland in 2018, appeared before Congress on Tuesday to answer questions about his investigation into President Joe Biden’s mishandling of classified documents. He opted not to bring charges against the president but testified Tuesday that his report “did not exonerate” the president of any wrongdoing.

White House counsel spokesman Ian Sams spoke to reporters after Hur’s hearing, and he claimed that the headline from Hur’s testimony is that “it’s time [for Republicans] to move on.”

“House Republicans tried to make it a big deal,” Sams claimed. “They want to attack the president politically. They’re making it very obvious that they’re trying to help the former president, and it’s a failure.”

“I think today lays bare that the special counsel, who, as you mentioned, was a Trump appointee, made some inappropriate comments about the president in his report that do not match up with the transcript of that interview that now every American can see for themselves,” he continued. “I think that the investigation that lasted 15 months came to the obvious conclusion that there wasn’t a case to be made here, that the evidence doesn’t back up bringing any charges. That’s what [Hur] found. That’s the result of this investigation. Even a Republican prosecutor found that and told House Republicans that, and so this case is closed.”

Sams also disputed the specifics surrounding Biden’s claim that Hur inappropriately asked him about the death of his son, Beau Biden, which Hur had pointed to in his report as a critical indication of Biden’s memory problems.

However, transcripts of Biden’s interview show that his trouble remembering the exact year of his son’s death and the years that he departed the vice presidency and Trump entered office were not prompted by direct questioning by the special counsel.

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“The transcript clearly shows that the president was being asked by the special counsel about the book that he wrote about his son’s unfortunate, untimely passing and the grief and the pain that he felt,” Sams countered when asked about those details. “Anybody who’s familiar with this president’s powerful story, emotional story of overcoming that loss and finding a new purpose and trying to keep going for the country, trying to save our democracy and move our country forward. Anybody who’s familiar with that story from the president will understand that the president’s going to talk about his son Beau.”

Sams eventually went on to claim that Tuesday’s hearing showed “just how hypocritical [Republicans are] willing to be in order to politically attack the president.”