Chris Menahan
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Special counsel Robert Hur, who was appointed by Biden-appointed Attorney General Merrick Garland, said Biden “willfully retained and disclosed classified materials” but recommended he not be charged as he’d present to a jury “as a sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory.”
Hur would decline to press charges against Biden for a number of reasons:
A jury would not likely convict.
Biden is too old to prosecute.
A jury could believe he did not willfully retain the docs.
A jury would see Biden “as an elderly man with a poor memory.” pic.twitter.com/4WrcpaVVmm
— Techno Fog (@Techno_Fog) February 8, 2024
From Mediaite, “Special Counsel Finds Biden ‘Willfully Retained’ Classified Docs But Won’t Be Charged”:
Special Counsel Robert Hur detailed in a report released on Thursday that President Joe Biden did take classified documents home with him, but that he should not face criminal charges over the matter.
“We conclude that no criminal charges are warranted in this matter. 1 We would reach the same conclusion even if Department of Justice policy did not foreclose criminal charges against a sitting president. 2 Our investigation uncovered evidence that President Biden willfully retained and disclosed classified materials after his vice presidency when he was a private citizen,” read the report’s executive summary of its probe into Biden.