February 8, 2024judicialclassified documentsspecial counselBiden agelegaljudicial
Special Counsel Hur declines to charge Biden over documents in politically explosive report
Special Counsel Robert Hur releases a report declining to prosecute President Biden for his handling of classified documents found at his Delaware home and Penn Biden Center, but includes politically explosive language describing Biden as "a sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory." Hur describes Biden as unable to recall main dates including the year his son Beau died. Biden angrily pushes back at a press conference, making further verbal errors. The report, which Democrats argue goes far beyond its prosecutorial scope, intensifies Democratic anxieties about Biden's fitness for another term and becomes a catalyst for post-debate calls to step aside.