Particular Counsel Robert Hur won’t cost President Joe Biden for his dealing with of categorised paperwork however included beautiful revelations in his report of the deterioration of Biden’s psychological state which are maybe extra politically damning.
The report says the investigation “uncovered proof that President Biden willfully retained and disclosed categorised supplies after his vice presidency when he was a personal citizen” however doesn’t set up guilt “past an affordable doubt.”
Supply: DOJ
But Hur’s evaluation of Biden’s “considerably restricted” reminiscence additionally performed an element in his resolution to not prosecute.
“We now have additionally thought-about that, at trial, Mr. Biden would possible current himself to a jury, as he did throughout our interview of him, as a sympathetic, well-meaning, aged man with a poor reminiscence,” the report states. “Based mostly on our direct interactions with and observations of him, he’s somebody for whom many jurors will need to determine affordable doubt.”
“It will be troublesome to persuade a jury that they need to convict him — by then a former president effectively into his eighties — of a critical felony that requires a psychological state of willfulness.”
Supply: DOJ
Hur’s report is riddled with examples and assessments that Biden’s psychological schools and reminiscence have deteriorated, saying, “Mr. Biden’s reminiscence additionally appeared to have vital limitations.”
Shockingly, the report says, “He didn’t keep in mind, even inside a number of years, when his son Beau died.”
Biden has typically spoken about his son Beau’s demise from mind most cancers, on quite a few events attributing his demise to dying in Iraq.
Maybe most damning is Biden’s lack of ability to recollect his time as vp:
In his interview with our workplace… He didn’t keep in mind when he was vp, forgetting on the primary day of the interview when his time period ended (“if it was 2013, when did I cease being Vice President?”), and forgetting on the second day of the interview when his time period started (“in 2009, am I nonetheless Vice President?”).
Regardless of Hur’s evaluation of a prosecution’s possibilities in courtroom — which mirror the justifications to not cost Hillary Clinton in 2016 — the proof introduced within the report leaves little doubt of Biden’s at-best sloppy dealing with of categorised paperwork.
Supply: DOJ
“Among the many locations Mr. Biden’s attorneys discovered categorised paperwork within the storage was a broken, opened field containing quite a few hanging folders, file folders, and binders. The field…was in a mangled state,” the report reads.
Images of Biden’s categorised docs in Hur report: ”Among the many locations Mr. Biden’s attorneys discovered categorised paperwork within the storage was a broken, opened field containing quite a few hanging folders, file folders, and binders. The field…was in a mangled state,” pic.twitter.com/3D1AmWy0xA
— Jacqui Heinrich (@JacquiHeinrich) February 8, 2024
The report additionally revealed proof that Biden disclosed categorised info to the ghostwriter of his guide.
The report’s launch comes amid renewed questions on Biden’s psychological well being. In 2024, Biden has described current conversations with overseas leaders who died a few years in the past.
Bradley Jaye is a Capitol Hill Correspondent for Breitbart Information. Observe him on X/Twitter at @BradleyAJaye.