Special Counsel Robert Hur concluded in a report that US President Joe Biden withheld him and disclosed:intentionally“Documents requiring secrecy, however, he ruled out bringing charges against him due to his advanced age and his cooperation during the trial.
“Our investigation uncovered evidence that President Biden withheld and intentionally disclosed “I retained confidential materials as vice president following his private life,” the 345-page report says, adding that “no criminal charges are warranted in this matter.”
He is an “old man with a bad memory”
In this sense he referred to “reasonable doubts“That would be the case if Biden were put on trial for being an “old man with a bad memory.”
“It would be difficult to convince a jury that they should convict you of a serious crime that requires punishment State of mind of voluntariness“, added.
He defends that there are “clear” differences between the Biden and Trump cases
Despite all this, he defends this differences “Clear” between the Biden case and his predecessor Donald Trump, who is accused in more than thirty cases of negligence in the use of confidential documents found at his Mar-a-Lago residence in Florida.
“Most notably, Trump allegedly did what he did after being given multiple opportunities to return classified documents and avoid prosecution.” Opposite“, he explains, adding that the current president, on the contrary, handed over the material to the National Archives and the Ministry of Justice.
Hur also emphasizes that the current president is looking for the documents in “Several locations“, including their addresses, while also conducting a voluntary interview, CNN reported.
Biden made a statement
Shortly afterward, Biden issued a statement emphasizing that the investigation was “successful.”exhaustive“ and goes back to the 1970s when he was a senator. “I am glad to see that they have come to the conclusion I expected: that no charges will be filed in this case and that the matter is in order.” closed“, has said.
Likewise, he has indicated that he has collaborated with Hur’s work. “I created no obstacles and sought no delays. In fact, I was so determined to give the special counsel what he needed that I conducted five hours of face-to-face interviews over two days,” he recalls.
Garland appointed Hur, an attorney at a Washington, D.C. firm and former federal prosecutor in Maryland, during the year Donald Trump administrationas an investigator in the case more than a year ago, in January 2023.