Biden will not be charged with being in possession of classified documents

Special Counsel Report on Pence’s and Biden’s “Classical Document Mishaps” in the Trump–Pence Era

Trump and former Vice President Mike Pence were embroiled in their own classified documents mishaps. Pence’s case concluded quickly with no criminal charges filed.

Trump is facing more than three dozen federal criminal charges after boxes of classified material were uncovered in unsecure locations at his Mar-a-Lago residence in Palm Beach, Fla. Trump and his associates have pleaded not guilty in the federal case, which is being prosecuted by special counsel Jack Smith.

Democrats were hoping the investigation would be finished quickly so it wouldn’t be an issue in the campaign. Instead, the probe lasted more than a year, and Hur’s report now lands as Biden looks set to square off in the 2024 campaign in a rematch with former President Donald Trump.

“How in the hell dare he raise that?” Biden said it was not their business, and cried with emotion. He doesn’t need anyone to remember him when he died. Hur’s description did not belong in the report according to him. “They don’t know what they’re talking about,” he said.

The handwritten notebooks were found in the unlocked drawers in the basement of Biden’s home in Delaware. The report says the evidence shows Biden knew the notebooks contained classified information.

The report says that “these material was proof of the stand Mr. Biden took” on key decisions during his tenure as vice president.

The materials were turned over by Biden’s personal attorneys to the National Archives. Federal agents then found a small number of additional classified documents in a search of Biden’s home in Wilmington, Del. Agents also searched Biden’s vacation home in Rehoboth Beach, Del., but did not turn up any sensitive materials.

A Justice Department special counsel has recommended no criminal charges be brought against President Biden in connection with the classified documents that were found at his Delaware home and a think-tank office in Washington, D.C.

“We conclude that no criminal charges are warranted in this matter,” the report says. Even if the Department of Justice policy was not to file criminal charges against a sitting president we would still reach the same conclusion.

The White House said “we disagree with a number of inaccurate and inappropriate comments in the Special Counsel’s report” on the classified documents, but did not detail what those were.

The report shows that Biden cooperated with the investigation and that packing documents is a common occurrence.

Biden angrily responded to the description of an interview in which Hur said Biden didn’t remember what happened to his son.

Asked by a reporter about the description of being “a well-meaning elderly man with a poor memory,” Biden said: “I’m well meaning and I’m an elderly man I know what I’m doing.

But when he answered a question about current hostage negotiations with Israel and Hamas, Biden mistakenly said that President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi of Egypt was the “president of Mexico.”

In recent days, Biden has called out foreign leaders by their names in off-camera events. Both Franois Mitterrand and Karl Kohler were former presidents of France and Germany.