Posted on 02/08/2024 2:47:03 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
Federal prosecutors who investigated President Joe Biden’s mishandling of classified documents declined to press charges despite discovering top-secret records in his Delaware home’s “garage, offices, and basement den. ”
On Thursday, Special Counsel Robert Hur unsealed his report to the Department of Justice (DOJ), concluding “that no criminal charges are warranted in this matter” despite records found related to foreign policy in Afghanistan and handwritten notes “implicating sensitive intelligence.” Prosecutors declined to press charges, in part, because “Biden would likely present himself to the jury, as he did during our interview with him, as a sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory.”
“Based on our direct interactions with and observations of him, he is someone for whom many jurors will want to identify reasonable doubt,” Hur’s team wrote in the nearly 400-page report. “It would be difficult to convince a jury that they should convict him by — by then a former president well into his eighties — of a serious felony that requires a mental state of willfulness.”
Prosecutors included pictures of where the documents were discovered in Biden’s private residence.
Biden was exonerated despite false statements to federal prosecutors, who concluded that the president risked disclosing government secrets to uncredentialed people.
While Biden escapes charges for classified documents discovered across multiple locations, former President Donald Trump faces a 40-count indictment from the Justice Department over an alleged mishandling of records marked classified.
“Mr. Biden’s memory,” Hur’s report said Thursday, “appeared to have significant limitations.”
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With nukes.
remember the dems tried to take away his ability to use nukes when he first got in. This report, while not charging him, did a lot of damage.
Oh BS.
They declined to prosecute him because of his political party affiliation.
Another day, another damn insult to my intelligence.
As much as JoeBama deserves to be “charged”, only Congress can indict a sitting president by bringing charges of impeachment against them. Politicians generally have “Immunity in Office” and can only be charged after their term in office is complete.
I suggest that Biden with or without a poor memory would walk no matter what
Trump is a different story
Then he is not qualified to be President one second longer. Out.
Will that argument be valid for anyone other than a Democrat?
There should be a way to present this to the public in the election campaign. How could anyone want a president who has been deemed so mentally incompetent in effect that he is not fit to stand trial?
“”a sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory.”
With nukes.”
Who is slow walking the world into WWIII and singlehandedly destroying the US AND Israel!
“With nukes.”
And with American Stasi, courts and prisons.
I suppose we can think of Biden as an elderly, well meaning Stalin.
Just as Hillary got say with carelessly handled top secret documents so did Biden.
Trump, not so much!
Hard to believe, but ABC’s David Muir led tonight’s news with this story. Even covered Biden’s memory issues.
The 2nd part is correct.
Uh,oh.
Unbelievable
Loving the ‘1984’ Banana 🍌 Republic
Biden was of sound mind when he took those documents and
mishandled them. He has attorneys who are of sound mind
now. Bring the rain or stop the prosecutions of Trump.
A “poor memory” defense never flies for the peasants accused of federal violations.
Bkmk
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