Robert Hur, the special prosecutor appointed to Joe Biden's case involving classified documents, recently revealed a report that shook the White House. Despite not filing any charges against the president, he questioned his memory and claimed that he "withheld and voluntarily disclosed classified material after his vice presidency." It was recently confirmed that Hur will answer questions in Congress about his investigation.
Expectations were high for his arrival on Capitol Hill. Three House committees even asked Hur to turn over recordings and transcripts of his interview with Biden.
Now, as reported by The Washington Examiner, the special prosecutor will appear on March 12 at a public hearing of the House Judiciary Committee. According to Axios, he has already contacted his former colleagues at the Department of Justice to help him prepare his testimony.
BREAKING: These are some photos of the classified docs President Biden stored in the garage in Delaware, according to Special Counsel Robert Hur’s report. Some of these documents included classified information about Afghanistan, the report says. No criminal charges recommended. pic.twitter.com/IvMQbJglse
— Bill Melugin (@BillMelugin_) February 8, 2024
"Although Mr. Hur reasoned that President Biden’s presentation ‘as a sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory’ who “did not remember when he was vice president’ or ‘when his son Beau died’ posed challenges to proving the President’s guilt beyond a reasonable doubt, the report concluded that the Department’s principles of prosecution weighed against prosecution because the Department has not prosecuted ‘a former president or vice president for mishandling classified documents from his own administration,'" wrote the chairman of the House Oversight and Accountability Committee, James Comer, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Rep. Jim Jordan, and House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Jason Smith.
Robert Hur's report on Joe Biden
After a little more than a year of interviews and investigation, the special counsel released his 379-page report in which he wrote that Biden "willfully retained and disclosed classified materials after his vice presidency when he was a private citizen." However, he clarified that it was not enough to file charges.
The report also included detailed photographs of documents in the president's garage, which included "top secret/sensitive compartmentalized information" related to foreign policy in Afghanistan.
Hur dedicated one of the sections of the letter to the president's memory, which, he wrote, "appeared to have significant limitations." He came to this conclusion citing an interview and recorded conversations with Biden's ghostwriter.
"(Biden) did not remember when he was vice president. He did not remember, even within several years, when his son Beau died. And his memory appeared hazy when describing the Afghanistan debate that was once so important to him," the report states.
"We have also considered that, at trial, Mr. Biden would likely present himself to a jury, as he did during our interview, as a sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory," Hur added.
