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Biden 'willfully' kept classified info, would come off as 'elderly man with poor memory' at trial, scathing report says
nypost ^ | 2/8/2024 | Steven Nelson and Samuel Chamberlain

Posted on 02/08/2024 2:47:31 PM PST by bitt

WASHINGTON — President Biden “willfully retained and disclosed classified materials,” special counsel Robert Hur found in a bombshell report released Thursday — though Hur recommended against criminal charges, in part because a jury might view Biden as an “elderly man with a poor memory.”

Biden, 81, flouted legal restrictions on keeping sensitive documents throughout his 36 years in the Senate and eight years as vice president — stashing them in cardboard boxes in his garage in Wilmington, Del., and other locations, the 388-page report said, with photos showing Biden’s storage practices.

Investigators even uncovered a recording of Biden confiding in his ghostwriter Mark Zwonitzer in April 2017, three months after leaving the vice presidency, that he still had official records because “I didn’t want to turn them in” — sounding similar to former President Donald Trump, who faces 40 criminal charges and up to 450 years in prison for resisting handing over documents after leaving the White House in 2021.

Zwonitzer also told Hur’s investigators that he deleted some audio files of Biden after the special counsel investigation began — and was aware of the probe when he did so.

“I’m not going to say how much of the percentage it was of my motivation,” the writer said, according to the report.

‘Elderly man with a poor memory’ Material mishandled by Biden involved the nation’s most guarded secrets, the report said, with authorities finding “information in [recovered] notebooks [that] remains classified up to the Top Secret level and includes Sensitive Compartmented Information, including from compartments used to protect information concerning human intelligence sources.”

But, perhaps most damaging for the president, Hur — a former Maryland US attorney — suggested that jurors would not hold Biden liable for his actions on account of his perceived mental decline, even though he is

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KEYWORDS: biden; bidenclassifieddocs; bidendocs; documents
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1 posted on 02/08/2024 2:47:31 PM PST by bitt
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2 posted on 02/08/2024 2:47:45 PM PST by bitt (<img src=' 'width=30%>)
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… in part because a jury might view Biden as an “elderly man with a poor memory.”….

Put me on the jury.

3 posted on 02/08/2024 2:50:00 PM PST by Road Warrior ‘04 (BOYCOTT Anheuser Busch, the NFL, MLB, NBA, NASCAR & Faux Snooze! Molon Labe! Oathkeeper! )
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To: bitt

Haven’t the MSM been attacking Trump for being senile? So why doesn’t Trump get the same treatment?


4 posted on 02/08/2024 2:50:54 PM PST by where's_the_Outrage? (Drain the Swamp. Build the Wall.)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

They attacked Reagan too.


5 posted on 02/08/2024 2:51:40 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: bitt

Likely excuse for a half-century of corruption.

6 posted on 02/08/2024 2:52:02 PM PST by RasterMaster ("Towering genius disdains a beaten path." - Abraham Lincoln)
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To: bitt

That sounds like a 25th amendment issue then.


7 posted on 02/08/2024 2:53:31 PM PST by KarlInOhio (Democrats' version of MAGA: Making America the Gulag Archipelago. Now with "Formal Deprogramming")
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To: bitt

Gavin Greaseball and Big Mike are saying to themselves that funding the DOJ report was money well spent. Now those two can fight it out for the nomination at the DNC Convention.


8 posted on 02/08/2024 2:54:14 PM PST by DAC21
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Senility is not an excuse for jeopardizing the lives of every living American. This man must be removed NOW!


9 posted on 02/08/2024 2:54:17 PM PST by Skul
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Likely excuse for a half-century of corruption

“He’s just a poor old sod”.


10 posted on 02/08/2024 2:54:19 PM PST by drSteve78 (Je suis Deplorable. Even more so)
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To: bitt

He’s been doing this since age 37...was he already senile then?


11 posted on 02/08/2024 2:54:28 PM PST by rfp1234 (E Porcibus Unum )
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This entire report is so freakin damning on Biden its even worse than indicting him, its confirming what we already know about Biden, that he’s a demented buffoon who does NOT belong in the White House, period this report is the end of Joe Biden’s 2024 run, the only way he stands a chance is if the commie media in his pocket doesn’t say one peep about this and just says “Hey he was exonerated”


12 posted on 02/08/2024 2:54:39 PM PST by Sarah Barracuda
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To: bitt

By painting Biden as an “elderly man with poor memory,” it appears that Hur is working hand in glove with those plotting to replace Biden at some point with another candidate (Newsome? Big Mike?).


13 posted on 02/08/2024 2:54:46 PM PST by Salvey
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another thought, Joe can’t remember so does that also mean he can’t remember if China paid him and for what? This just keeps getting more interesting!


14 posted on 02/08/2024 2:55:13 PM PST by Lockbox (politicians, they all seemed like game show hosts to me.... Sting…)
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To: bitt

Nobody will see any problem with having a man with “poor memory” with the nuclear codes


15 posted on 02/08/2024 2:55:41 PM PST by bigbob
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So they charged Trump because he’s not senile like Biden.

Sounds like a ringing endorsement.


16 posted on 02/08/2024 2:57:37 PM PST by Uncle Miltie (Objective: Permanently break the will of the population to ever wage war again.)
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To: bitt


17 posted on 02/08/2024 2:58:19 PM PST by bitt (<img src=' 'width=30%>)
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To: Lockbox

“WHAT MONEY??” Lol!


18 posted on 02/08/2024 2:59:52 PM PST by bitt (<img src=' 'width=30%>)
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Disgusting, how a POTUS was treated, yet a VP is with no authority to declassify is exempt because he’s from the socialist party.

Trump home was with planned MSM coverage and immediate calls for him to be severely punished. But crime boss Biden gets a pass.

It’s sickening.


19 posted on 02/08/2024 3:04:59 PM PST by Made In The USA (Ellen Ate Dynamite Good Bye Ellen)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

The house needs to immediately schedule a hearing and call all those legal pundits who jabbered on TV or wrote articles calling for Trump’s removal through the 25th Amendment.

Get their “learned” opinions on Biden’s fitness.


20 posted on 02/08/2024 3:07:30 PM PST by FirstFlaBn
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