Former President Donald Trump recently demanded that Special Counsel Jack Smith should “immediately” drop the charges against him in his classified documents case after a special counsel found that President Biden would not be legally charged for his mishandling of classified information.
Trump spoke with Fox News Digital on the findings of Special Counsel Robert Hur’s public report, which concluded that criminal charges would not be brought against Biden for handling highly classified military documents, some of which pertained to the U.S. military, foreign policy, and other critical matter related to national security.
In contrast, Trump has been charged with 37 felonies about his retention of classified documents, all of which the former president has pleaded not guilty to. Trump claimed that the case against him should be dropped, claiming the Presidential Records Act protected him.
“They should immediately drop the case against me,” the former president said. “I am covered by the Presidential Records Act — he wasn’t. He had many, many times more documents — totally unguarded. Mine were always surrounded by Secret Service and in locked rooms.” Trump continued, “This is 100 times more severe. This is two standards of justice and it has to end in our country. Deranged Jack Smith should drop the case immediately against us.”
Trump continued, asserting that the charges brought against him in his documents case amounts to “election interference” in an attempt to subvert his 2024 presidential campaign. “It is election interference…. I did absolutely nothing wrong,” Trump
said.
“We conclude that no criminal charges are warranted in this matter,” According to Hur’s
report on President Biden, adding that “We would reach the same conclusion even if the Department of Justice policy did not foreclose criminal charges against a sitting president.”
While Hur’s report decided not to bring criminal charges against Joe Biden, one of its conclusions could have severe political consequences ahead of the upcoming election. The report stated that Biden’s elderly age and “poor memory” contributed to the ultimate decision not to take the case to trial.
“We have also considered that, at trial, Mr. Biden would likely present himself to a jury, as he did during our interview of him, as a sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory,” Hur’s report read. “Based on our direct interactions with and observations of him, he is someone from whom many jurors will want to identify reasonable doubt. It would be difficult to convince a jury that they should convict him—by then a former president well into his eighties—of a serious felony that requires a mental state of willfulness.”
“Prosecution of Mr. Biden is also unwarranted based on our consideration of the aggravating and mitigating factors set forth in the Department of Justice’s Principles of Federal Prosecution,” the report added. “For these reasons, we decline prosecution of Mr. Biden.”
As expected, Hur’s commentary on Biden’s mental acuity has sparked uproar from Democrats. Liberals are concerned about the ramifications of the report that confirms the concerns of many American voters surrounding the president’s capability of leading the nation.
