Biden will not be charged with withholding classified documents after prosecutors verify that Biden does not remember when his son died

Special prosecutor Robert Hur concluded that US President Joe Biden knowingly withheld classified documents from his time as vice president, but he decided not to file charges against the president because, he says, the charges against the president There is insufficient justification for filing.

Prosecuting Biden, Hur said, would be “inappropriate based on our consideration of the aggravating and mitigating factors” and explained that the evidence “does not establish” the president’s guilt “beyond a reasonable doubt.”

Biden has been the subject of investigation since a year ago, classified documents from Barack Obama’s tenure as Vice President (2009-2017) were found in his Delaware home and a private office.

“Significantly Limited” Memory

In the document, prosecutors explain that Biden showed “significantly limited memory” during questioning in 2023. He even said that the President did not remember the dates on which he assumed the office of Vice President and had difficulty remembering the dates. For the post of Vice President. The death of his son Beau in 2015.

In response to the report’s publication, Biden issued a statement in which he expressed satisfaction at not being charged, but made no mention of the prosecutor’s indictments of his memory. “I am pleased to see that they have reached the conclusion that I always believed they would reach; no charges will be filed in this case and the case is now closed,” the president said in the statement.

Biden also defended that he “cooperated fully (with prosecutors) in the investigation, imposed no obstruction and did not seek delay”.

The documents were found by Biden’s lawyers in November and December 2022, and immediately turned over to the National Archives, the organization that is supposed to protect them, after which the Justice Department launched an investigation.

Former President Donald Trump (2017–2021), the Republican nominee for next November’s elections, was also investigated for maintaining official documents in a Florida mansion and was charged with 40 counts because he avoided handing them over for months. Had refused.

According to the information made public, the two investigations are very different: the number of documents under consideration in the Biden investigation is about 20, while Trump allegedly illegally withheld 300 documents, which were to be recovered by the FBI raid.