Special counsel Robert Hur’s report on President Joe Biden’s handling of classified material revealed that while Biden willfully retained and disclosed classified materials after his vice presidency, no criminal charges were recommended due to concerns about his mental fitness.
Republicans strongly criticized the decision, with former President Donald Trump calling for Biden’s resignation.
“Mr. Biden’s memory was significantly limited, both during his recorded interviews with the ghostwriter in 2017 [with whom he shared classified materials], and in his interview with our office in 2023,” the report stated.
The President’s press conference this evening further confirmed on live television what the Special Counsel report outlined.
He is not fit to be President.
— Speaker Mike Johnson (@SpeakerJohnson) February 9, 2024
“We have also considered that, at trial, Mr. Biden would likely present himself to a jury, as he did during our interview of him, as a sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory.”
“THIS HAS NOW PROVEN TO BE A TWO-TIERED SYSTEM OF JUSTICE AND UNCONSTITUTIONAL SELECTIVE PROSECUTION!” Trump wrote. “The Biden Documents Case is 100 times different and more severe than mine. I did nothing wrong, and I cooperated far more.”
“What Biden did is outrageously criminal – He had 50 years of documents, 50 times more than I had, and ‘WILLFULLY RETAINED’ them,” Trump said. “I was covered by the Presidential Records Act, Secret Service was always around, and GSA delivered the documents. Deranged Jack Smith should drop this Case immediately. ELECTION INTERFERENCE.”
House Republicans expressed deep concern over the report, highlighting the President’s recklessness and the perceived two-tiered justice system.
“The Special Counsel’s finding that President Biden ‘willfully retained and disclosed classified materials’ and engaged in practices that ‘present serious risks to national security’ is deeply disturbing,” House Speaker Mike Johnson, House Majority Leader Tom Emmer, House Majority Whip Steve Scalise, and Conference Chairwoman Elise Stefanik jointly stated. “Not only does it demonstrate the President’s recklessness, but exposes a two-tiered system of justice that is indicting one President with politically motivated charges while carrying water for another amid similar allegations.”
“Among the most disturbing parts of this report is the Special Counsel’s justification for not recommending charges: namely that the President’s memory had such ‘significant limitations’ that he could not convince a jury that the President held a ‘mental state of willfulness’ that a serious felony requires,” the statement read. “A man too incapable of being held accountable for mishandling classified information is certainly unfit for the Oval Office.”
Biden’s subsequent press conference, where he clashed with the media and displayed mental mistakes, further fueled criticism from Republicans.
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