President Biden’s team is reportedly concerned that photos included in Special Counsel Robert Hur’s impending report on his handling of classified documents could affect his 2024 re-election bid. There is.
Axios said Biden’s aides do not expect any criminal charges as a result of the investigation, but the embarrassing photos could be included in Xu’s report, which could be released as early as this week. reported that they are concerned that there is. These images may show how Biden stored classified materials, which were stored in the garage of Biden’s Delaware home in late 2022 and where he was using them. It was discovered in his private office. The classified documents were inherited from Biden’s time as former President Barack Obama’s vice president.
Biden aides told Axios they were concerned that the former president’s campaign could use the photo against the Democratic incumbent ahead of a likely rematch in 2024.
President Trump himself was accused of improperly storing classified documents at his private residence in Mar-a-Lago, Florida, after leaving the White House following an investigation by Special Counsel Jack Jacques, including obstruction of justice and willful retention of national defense information. He has been charged with more than 40 crimes. Smith.
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President Biden speaks at the White House on October 10, 2023. He had been questioned days earlier as part of Special Counsel Robert Hur’s investigation. (Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images)
As Mr. Xu’s report approaches, Mr. Biden’s aides worry that the Trump campaign will try to contrast its handling of the two investigations.
Mr. Ha, a former federal prosecutor who was appointed by President Trump in 2017 and a former clerk to conservative Chief Justice William Rehnquist, is required to write a report on the investigation, which Mr. Biden’s aides told Axios. He said he expected the report to be submitted as early as this week. The exact time of release is unknown.
Former U.S. Attorney Merrick Garland has been selected by Attorney General Merrick Garland as special prosecutor to investigate the Biden documents. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
Biden has defended the preservation of classified documents in the past.
“By the way, my Corvette is kept in a locked garage, so it’s not sitting on the street,” he once said.
In an interview on CBS’ “60 Minutes” last fall, Attorney General Merrick Garland vowed to release the special counsel’s report on another matter, related to Hunter Biden, “to the fullest extent permitted by law.” He promised to explain the contents. He said, “The decision to prosecute or not, and the strategic decisions in that process.”
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“Typically, the special counsel will testify at the end of the report, and we expect that to be the case here as well,” Garland said.
Attorney General Merrick Garland announced the appointment of a special counsel to investigate the discovery of classified documents in President Biden’s possession on January 12, 2023 in Washington, DC. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
The Justice Department told Axios that Garland is committed to releasing Herr’s report as well.
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Garland’s former senior adviser, Anthony Cawley, accused the Biden team of being slow to discover the incident.
“The findings are made even more damning by the Biden team’s flurry of disclosures in the context of former President Trump’s indictment on charges of knowingly preserving classified documents,” he wrote in an op-ed. .
