Special Counsel Robert Hur's report has been released.
"Biden willfully retained" marked and unmarked classified documents at his home.
This "risked serious damage to America's national security"
Yet Biden will not be charged.
Here are the highlights 🧵
There are tapes: in 2017, Biden told a writer he "found all the classified stuff downstairs" at his Delaware home.
These documents were later found by the FBI.
Hur: this evidence shows "Biden willfully retained the marked classified documents about Afghanistan."
There is also evidence that Biden:
- Unlawfully retained classified notebooks post-Vice Presidency.
- Disclosed classified info in his notebooks to his ghostwriter.
Biden's excuse to the Special Counsel amounts to a criminal false statement:
Biden explained that when he described material in his notebooks as "classified" he did not actually mean "classified"
The Special Counsel didn't buy it.
Recordings from 2017 captured Biden giving his ghostwriter classified info multiple times.
Biden was on record admitting the info "probably was classified."
Obstruction of Justice:
Biden's ghostwriter "deleted digital audio recordings of his conversations with Mr. Biden" after he learned of Hur's appointment as Special Counsel.
Hur declined to press charges.
Photographs of documents (many containing classified info) found in Biden's home:
Biden's serious cognitive issues are exposed -
"He did not remember when he was vice president"
He forgot "when his term began"
"He did not remember, even within several years, when his son Beau died."
Hur would decline to press charges against Biden for a number of reasons:
A jury would not likely convict.
Biden is too old to prosecute.
A jury could believe he did not willfully retain the docs.
A jury would see Biden "as an elderly man with a poor memory."
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