A new poll shows just over half of Americans believe President Biden received special treatment when the special counsel did not bring charges after investigating classified documents.
investigation, Conducted by Reuters and Ipsosfound that 53 percent of all respondents agreed with the statement that Biden “receives special treatment because he is the president of the United States.” Nearly 30% of Democratic respondents said the same.
Special Counsel Robert Hur last week detailed the findings of a nearly year-long investigation into how documents from Biden’s time as vice president ended up in his old office space and home in Wilmington, Delaware. A 388-page report was published. In the report’s conclusion, Biden said: He knowingly kept the documents but did not press charges.
However, Mr. Huh branded the president an “old man with a poor memory.” According to the survey, 46% of respondents said they were “somewhat familiar” with Mr. Xu’s explanation that Mr. Biden, 81, would be difficult to prosecute because of his characteristics.
As Biden prepares to run for re-election, his age and mental capacity have become the focus of much attention and ridicule. He will be 86 years old at the end of his second term, making him the oldest person to hold the Oval Office.
About 78% of all respondents (particularly 71% of Democrats) said Biden is already too old to serve in government.
Former President Trump, the Republican candidate likely to face Biden in the general election, is 77 years old. The poll found that voters responded better to Trump’s age than Biden’s. Only 53% said the former president was too old to serve in government.
President Trump faces 40 charges in his own documents scandal, including mishandling classified records and obstructing authorities from obtaining records, including files marked top secret. It is said that The FBI recovered documents from Mar-a-Lago’s property in August 2022.
About 64% of respondents believe it is believed that Biden illegally took the documents. According to the survey, 68% said the same about President Trump.
The Reuters/Ipsos poll was conducted Feb. 9-12 among 1,237 voters and has a margin of error of about 3 percentage points.
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