BREAKING: Special Counsel Recommends No Charges In Biden Classified Document Investigation

On Thursday, Special Counsel Robert Hur released his final report following an extensive investigation into President Joe Biden's mishandling of classified documents. Hur concluded that the Department of Justice would bring no charges against Biden or members of his staff.
 

“We conclude that no criminal charges are warranted in this matter. We would conclude the same even if there was no policy against charging a sitting president," the special counsel's report explains. "Our investigation uncovered evidence that President Biden willfully retained and disclosed classified information after his vice presidency when he was a private citizen.”

“These materials included (1) marked classified documents about military and foreign policy in Afghanistan, and (2) notebooks containing Mr. Biden’s handwritten entries about issues of national security and foreign policy implicating sensitive intelligence sources and methods," the report continued. "FBI agents recovered these materials from the garage, offices, and basement den in Mr. Biden’s Wilmington, Delaware home."

Special counsel Robert Hur was appointed to investigate the president in January 2023 after classified documents were found in the president's home, in his office at the Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement, and in other locations. The discovery of classified documents at Biden's residence and office came at the same time that federal authorities raided 45th President Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort for classified documents.

Biden's lawyers initially found ten classified documents in late November in Biden's Penn Biden Center office that originated from his days as vice president in the Obama administration. A later sweep of Biden's home in Wilmington, Delaware, the following month found a number of documents in his garage. In both cases, White House lawyers were quickly dispatched to the scene and the National Archives and Records Administration, the agency tasked with protecting classified materials, was contacted.

This is a developing story and will be updated accordingly.

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