2024-02-08 22:31:00
The president of the United States, Joe Biden. EVELYN HOCKSTEIN | REUTERS
The special counsel’s report increases doubts about the mental capacity of the president of the United States. He says he didn’t remember when his son had died or when he had stopped being Obama’s vice president.
08 feb 2024 . Updated at 11:35 p.m.
Special prosecutor Robert Hur has concluded in a report that the president of the United States, Joe Bidenintentionally withheld and revealed classified documentsalthough he has ruled out filing charges against him due to his advanced age, for being an older man with a bad memory and for collaborating throughout the entire process.
“Our investigation uncovered evidence that President Biden intentionally withheld and disclosed classified materials after his vice presidency when he was a private citizen,” says the 345-page report, adding that no criminal charges are warranted in this matter.
In this sense, he has alluded to the reasonable doubts that would exist in the event that Biden were tried because he is an older man with a bad memory. It would be difficult to convince a jury that they should convict him of a serious crime that requires a voluntary state of mind, he adds.
He didn’t remember when his son had died.
The report increases doubts about the mental capacity of the president of the United States. He says he didn’t remember when his son had died or when he had stopped being Obama’s vice president.
His Republican rivals have taken advantage of the publication to attack Biden, until now the favorite to be the Democratic candidate for the White House in the November presidential elections.
Different case from Trump
For all this, he defends that there are clear differences between the case of Biden and his predecessor, Donald Trump, accused of more than thirty charges of negligence in the use of confidential documents, found in his residence in Mar-a-Lago, in Florida. .
Most notably, after receiving multiple opportunities to return classified documents and avoid prosecution, Trump allegedly did the opposite, he claims, adding that the current president instead turned over the material to the National Archives and the Department of Justice.
Hur also highlights that the current president consented to the search for the documents in multiple places, including his homes, while he also carried out a voluntary interview, according to CNN and Europa Press.
Biden: The matter is closed
Shortly after, Biden issued a statement in which he highlighted that the investigation has been exhaustive and dates back to the 1970s, when he was a senator. “I’m glad to see that they reached the conclusion that I thought they would: that no charges will be filed in this case and that the matter is closed,” he said.
Likewise, he has indicated that he has collaborated with Hur’s work. I did not put up obstacles and I did not seek delays. In fact he was so determined to give the special counsel what he needed that he went ahead with five hours of in-person interviews over two days, he has recalled.
Garland appointed Hur, a lawyer at a firm in Washington DC and former federal prosecutor for Maryland during the Donald Trump Administration, as an investigator in the case more than a year ago, in January 2023.
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