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Special Counsel Determines Biden Is Too Old to Charge for Mishandling Classified Information
townhall.com ^ | 2/7/2024 1520 hrs | Katie Pavlich

Posted on 02/08/2024 1:27:23 PM PST by rktman

Special Counsel Robert Hur has declined to charge President Joe Biden for willfully retaining, disclosing and grossly mishandling a number of classified documents as a private citizen -- taking them from his time in the U.S. Senate and after he left the vice presidency in early 2017. He had no declassification authority in either position.

Citing Biden's age and memory, the report states a jury would not find him guilty.

"We have also considered that, at trial, Mr. Biden would likely present himself to a jury, as he did during out interview of him, as a sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory," the report states. "Based on our direct interactions with and observations of him, he is someone for whom many jurors will want to identify reasonable doubt. It would be difficult to convince a jury that they should convict him — by then a former president well into his eighties — of a serious felony that requires a mental state of willfulness."

"Mr. Biden's memory was significantly limited, both during his recorded interviews with the ghostwriter in 2017, and in his interview with our office in 2023. And his cooperation with our investigation, including by reporting to the government that the Afghanistan documents were in his Delaware garage, will likely convince some jurors that he made an innocent mistake, rather than acting willfully-that is, with intent to break the law-as the statute requires," the report states.

(Excerpt) Read more at townhall.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Government; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: fidiocy
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Besides, no DA with an ounce of sense would bring those charges. Or something. My shocked face 🤡
1 posted on 02/08/2024 1:27:23 PM PST by rktman
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he gave classified info to a ghostwriter in 2017, of course he has no memory of that..he doesn’t remember when he was VP, he has no memory of when his son the one he cant stop harping about, died..he talks to people who died 20 yrs ago, I think we all know where this is going, this is Biden’s way out, the 25th amendment will happen and Harris will become President


2 posted on 02/08/2024 1:28:50 PM PST by Sarah Barracuda
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To: rktman

He wasn’t out of it when he took them.


3 posted on 02/08/2024 1:29:02 PM PST by Tijeras_Slim
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To: rktman

More here:

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4215999/posts

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4216001/posts


4 posted on 02/08/2024 1:29:45 PM PST by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this💩? 🚫💉! 🇮🇱👍!)
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To: rktman

So he’s not mentally competent, but it’s O.K. he is President.


5 posted on 02/08/2024 1:30:26 PM PST by 1Old Pro
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To: rktman

The soon-to-be “100 million vote candidate”, coming this fall.


6 posted on 02/08/2024 1:30:33 PM PST by CatOwner (Don't expect anyone, even conservatives, to have your back when the SHTF in 2021 and beyond.)
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To: rktman

HIPOCRITES!!!

Biden was mishandling classified information for decades!!!

They go after Trump when he is in his late 70s, including raids on his residence, and he has been holding office for less than 20% of the time that life-long swamp creature Biden has.


7 posted on 02/08/2024 1:30:36 PM PST by z3n (Kakistocracy)
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To: Tijeras_Slim

exactly


8 posted on 02/08/2024 1:31:30 PM PST by job
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To: rktman

Right on cue just now

Video Biden Calls Blue States “Green States”
Feb 8, 2024
https://rumble.com/v4c8q2u-biden-calls-blue-states-green-states.html


9 posted on 02/08/2024 1:32:31 PM PST by janetjanet998 (Legacy media including youtube are the enemy of the people and must die)
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To: rktman

Right on cue just now

Video Biden Calls Blue States “Green States”
Feb 8, 2024
https://rumble.com/v4c8q2u-biden-calls-blue-states-green-states.html


10 posted on 02/08/2024 1:32:34 PM PST by janetjanet998 (Legacy media including youtube are the enemy of the people and must die)
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To: rktman

The old “I don’t recall” Hillary defense, works for Democrats.


11 posted on 02/08/2024 1:32:53 PM PST by 1Old Pro
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To: CatOwner

Yup! What I’m guessing.


12 posted on 02/08/2024 1:32:55 PM PST by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this💩? 🚫💉! 🇮🇱👍!)
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Because trump has a minor cat pooh fight with am archivist at the national archives, the DOJ spends millions pursuing a pile of paper that without legal action would have collected dust for the next 30 years before donation to the Trump presidential libaray to be sorted. Because Joe is Joe, and does not say mean things about lawyers, we go for icecream.

Ok I got that.


13 posted on 02/08/2024 1:34:05 PM PST by protoconservative (Been Conservative Before You Were Born )
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Could it be that the so-called gaffes are actually deliberate actions aimed at building a defense?


14 posted on 02/08/2024 1:35:04 PM PST by Jyotishi (Seeking the truth, a fact at a time.)
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He was selling the information in those documents. That is the truth of it. It could be proven if the DOJ had a mind to do so.

And the last I knew there was no exception in the classified document laws that allow one to be careless for any reason.


15 posted on 02/08/2024 1:35:14 PM PST by Revel
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It just funnier every time i read it


16 posted on 02/08/2024 1:35:50 PM PST by rottweiller_inc (inter canem et lupum)
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To: rktman

Two sets of rules


17 posted on 02/08/2024 1:38:30 PM PST by circlecity
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To: Sarah Barracuda

The head of the Biden Crime Family is too old to put on trial.

18 posted on 02/08/2024 1:38:44 PM PST by fireman15 (Irritating people are the grit from which we fashion our pearl. I provide the grit. You're Welcome.)
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Citing Biden's age and memory, the report states a jury would not find him guilty.

Then how can Joe be President since that statement implies that Joe is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office!

19 posted on 02/08/2024 1:39:43 PM PST by Lockbox (politicians, they all seemed like game show hosts to me.... Sting…)
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To: protoconservative

“fight with am archivist at the national archives”

A highly partisan archivist with a track record, on a deliberate mission to “get Trump”. Just wanted to clarify that this was not a case arising out of some normal honest disagreement.

This was a planned and executed attack.


20 posted on 02/08/2024 1:40:20 PM PST by DesertRhino (2016 Star Wars, 2020 The Empire Strikes Back, 2024... RETURN OF THE JEDI)
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