Members of President Biden’s 2024 re-election team fear a Justice Department report on his retention of classified documents will uncover “embarrassing details,” according to a new report.
Attorney General Merrick Garland tapped special counsel Robert Hur to investigate the matter on January 12, 2023, following the FBI’s search of Vice President Biden’s Washington, DC, office and Delaware mansion for sensitive files.
More than a year later, the Biden camp expects Hur’s team to release a final report on the classified documents investigation as soon as this week, with information and photos that could complicate the president’s re-election bid, Axios reported.
A spokesman for the Biden campaign did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Members of President Biden’s 2024 campaign team fear that a Justice Department report into his alleged improper storage of classified documents will uncover “embarrassing details.” AP Attorney General Merrick Garland tapped special counsel Robert Hur to investigate the matter on January 12, 2023, following FBI searches of Biden’s Washington, DC, office and Delaware mansion. AP
At least a dozen classified files were discovered by Biden’s lawyers at the offices of the Penn Biden Center think tank in the nation’s capital on November 2, some of which related to the United Kingdom, Ukraine and Iran.
The findings were not revealed until after the midterm elections, in which Democrats exceeded expectations. Biden’s personal attorney found more intelligence files in the library and garage of the president’s Wilmington, Del., residence that December.
The FBI searched Biden’s Rehoboth Beach office, home and residence between November 2022 and February 2023, and additional classified documents at the Wilmington location.
Biden’s personal attorney found more intelligence files at the president’s Wilmington, Del., home that December — in the library and garage. Joe Biden/YouTube
First son Hunter Biden had access to files stored on the side of his father’s 1967 Corvette Stingray, according to a photo found on his abandoned laptop taken the same day he sent a threatening text to a Chinese associate asking his father to close a seven-figure business deal on July 30, 2017.
Another photo taken by Hunter earlier that year shows a box labeled “Important Documents [sic] + Photos.” Its contents are unclear, but some reports say the elder Biden may have saved material to inform his 2017 memoir, “My Promise, Dad.”
Biden, 81, has dismissed the scandal as a fight over “stray papers”, saying the files are kept “in a locked garage” and that he is “cooperating fully” with the Hur investigation.
First son Hunter Biden had access to files stored next to his father’s 1967 Corvette Stingray, according to photos found on his abandoned laptop. Hunter Biden’s laptop
The president sat down for a “voluntary” interview in October, and his son was interviewed the following month as part of the investigation, which has reportedly involved more than 100 witnesses.
House Republicans are conducting an impeachment inquiry into Joe Biden for evidence that he abused his position as vice president or personally benefited from Hunter’s influence-peddling scheme with foreign entities.
The House Oversight Committee has scheduled an interview with Hunter and first brother James Biden for later this month that is expected to shed more light on the extent of their overseas business entanglements, which raised more than $17 million for the first family and their associates during and shortly after Joe was in office. in the Obama White House.
Special counsel Jack Smith charged former President Donald Trump in June 2023 with also storing sensitive material at his Mar-a-Lago estate after leaving office in January 2021 — and then lying to federal authorities who obtained the information.
Smith has charged Trump, 77, with 40 counts of withholding US intelligence files even from his own lawyers, some of which were marked “top secret”, and asking his valet and a resort employee to help him hide documents from the Justice Department and the FBI.
The National Archives repeatedly asked the former president to hand over hundreds of documents before referring the matter to the Department of Justice in early 2022.
Federal prosecutors later impaneled a grand jury and authorized an FBI search of Trump’s Palm Beach, Fla., residence on Aug. 8, 2022, which found 102 classified documents that were not voluntarily provided.
Photographs released as part of the indictment show boxes of materials stored in ballrooms, bedrooms, bathrooms and basement storage facilities with immediate access to the outside “that are often kept open,” according to prosecutors.
Trump’s ex-lawyer had confirmed to the Justice Department months earlier that all sensitive intelligence material had been turned over, unaware that several boxes containing the documents had been hidden from him.
US District Judge Aileen Cannon has currently scheduled a trial date of May 20, 2024, in the Southern District of Florida.
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