Important report from the special prosecutor is forthcoming and raises questions about the treatment of Secret documents of the President of the United StatesHowever, Joe Biden and his aides do not recommend filing criminal charges, reported this Tuesday Washington Post.
The US newspaper assured that special counsel Robert Hur’s report on the discovery of secret documents in Biden’s apartment and his former office will be published in the coming days.
Hur was appointed by Attorney General Merrick Garland last year and then in 2022 Secret documents from when Biden was vice president are found (2009-2017) by Barack Obama in his former office and home in Wilmington, Delaware.
Former President Donald Trump, Biden’s most likely rival in November’s presidential election, is currently facing charges for alleged mishandling of top-secret documents.
In June, Trump pleaded not guilty to several charges: unlawful withholding of national defense information, conspiracy to obstruct justice and making false statements.
Another special counsel, Jack Smith, accused him of endangering national security by having top-secret nuclear and defense information in his possession after he left the White House.
The tycoon withheld documents –including records from the CIA, the Pentagon and the National Security Agency, NSA– made his home in Mar-a-Lago, Florida, unsafe and tried to impede authorities’ efforts to recover it, the indictment says.
Trump is scheduled to go on trial in the case in a Florida court in May.
He Washington Post However, says there are significant Differences in the investigations against Biden and Trumpsuch as the number of documents, which in the case of the sitting president was less than 20, while Trump is under investigation because almost 300 were found in his house.
In addition, Trump allegedly tried to distract Research While Biden cooperated and was interviewed by Special Counsel Hur in October along with dozens of current and former collaborators, the outlet says.
Biden aides told the newspaper that the documents ended up at his home and office for “negligent personnel work”.
With information from AFP.
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