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Special counsel Robert Hur will not prosecute President Biden for his handling of classified documents. Hur’s report, released Thursday afternoon, states that Biden’s sloppy handling of the documents « present serious risks to national security. »
Most importantly, the report states that Joe Biden portrayed himself as an « elderly man with a poor memory » meant to make himself a sympathetic person if he went before a jury.
It was found that Biden « willfully retained » the classified documents. Remember, these are classified documents that Biden was not entitled to possess. The documents go back to his days as a senator and as vice president. Only the president has to power to declassify documents, not a senator and not even a vice president.
« Our investigation uncovered evidence that President Biden willfully retained and disclosed classified materials after his vice presidency when he was a private citizen, » the report said, but the evidence « does not establish Mr. Biden’s guilt beyond a reasonable doubt. »
Biden knew, at least at some point, that the classified documents were in his possession.
About a month after he left office as vice president, in a recorded conversation with his ghostwriter in February 2017, Biden remarked that he “just found all this classified stuff downstairs, » the report said. Biden was believed to have been referencing classified documents about the Afghanistan troop surge in 2009, which Biden opposed.
The most alarming thing about the report’s conclusions is the president’s diminished mental ability to recall past events. He didn’t remember when he was vice president. He didn’t remember when his son, Beau, died.
This is a long tweet but it provides evidence of Biden’s lack of memory.
The special counsel report says that Biden did not remember “even within several years” when his son beau biden died. pic.twitter.com/phEnPyH4It— Jake Sherman (@JakeSherman) February 8, 2024
Biden kept handwritten notes from national security briefings and that is not something that is allowable.
