After classified documents were discovered in Biden’s home and a Washington, D.C. office, the DOJ tasked special counsel Robert Hur to investigate.
A Justice Department special counsel has recommended no criminal charges be brought against President Biden in connection with the classified documents that were found at his Delaware home and a think-tank office in Washington, D.C.
In a nearly 350-page report released Thursday, special counsel Robert Hur says President Biden held onto classified documents after he left the Obama administration and became a private citizen, and that Biden even disclosed some of those materials to his ghostwriter. But the report says the evidence did not establish Biden’s guilt beyond a reasonable doubt.
« We conclude that no criminal charges are warranted in this matter, » the report says. « We would reach the same conclusion even if Department of Justice policy did not foreclose criminal charges against a sitting president. »
Hur’s decision not to pursue charges against the president brings an end to a lengthy investigation that began after Biden’s lawyers found classified documents in November 2022 in the offices of the Penn Biden Center in Washington, D.
