Special Counsel Robert Hur, who investigated President Joe Biden’s alleged mishandling of classified documents, testified before the House Judiciary Committee on Tuesday and reiterated the main conclusions from his report: Biden “willfully” retained classified documents and also shared classified information with someone not cleared to see it.
Hur ultimately recommended against bringing charges because he believed, despite the evidence his team had gathered, that he could not prove to a jury beyond a reasonable doubt Biden had acted unlawfully.
One factor influencing Hur’s recommendation was Biden’s poor memory during hours of interviews and in records of the president’s conversations with the ghostwriter of his memoir.
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,” the prosecutor wrote in his report.”Mr. Biden would likely present himself to […]
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