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. The report also pointed out the extent of Biden's cognitive decline, with the report noting that Biden forgot when he was vice president in the Obama administration.
"In an interview with our office, Mr. Biden's memory was worse. He did not remember when he was vice president, forgetting on the first day of the interview when his term ended ('If it was 2013 - when did I stop being Vice President?'), and forgetting on the second day of the interview when his term began ('in 2009, am I still Vice President?')," the report reads. "He did not remember, even within several years, when his son Beau died. And his memory appeared hazy when describing the Afghanistan debate that was once so important to him."
"We have also considered that, at trial, Mr. Biden would likely present himself to a jury, as he did during our interview of him, as a sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory," the report added.
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.
Despite these facts, the DOJ decided against charging the president. "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."
"In an interview with our office, Mr. Biden's memory was worse. He did not remember when he was vice president, forgetting on the first day of the interview when his term ended ('If it was 2013 - when did I stop being Vice President?'), and forgetting on the second day of the interview when his term began ('in 2009, am I still Vice President?')," the report reads. "He did not remember, even within several years, when his son Beau died. And his memory appeared hazy when describing the Afghanistan debate that was once so important to him."
"We have also considered that, at trial, Mr. Biden would likely present himself to a jury, as he did during our interview of him, as a sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory," the report added.
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.
Despite these facts, the DOJ decided against charging the president. "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."
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