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On Tuesday, Special Counsel Robert Hur testified before the House Judiciary Committee that the Biden administration tried to get him to edit his report on the president's handling of classified documents before it was made public.
The report found that while Biden "willfully retained and disclosed" classified materials, criminal charges were not warranted.
"Did the White House get the report before the report was made public?" Chairman Jim Jordan asked.
"We did provide a draft of the report to the White House counsel's office and members of the president's personal counsel team for their review," Hur replied.
When asked whether the White House "tried to weigh in with your investigation on elements of that report and get the report changed," Hur said that officials did, in fact, "request certain edits and changes to the draft report."
This was not the only potentially damning information revealed by Hur during his testinomy.
Hur noted that there was "one response the president gave to a question posed to him that we deemed to be 'not credible'."
When asked by Rep. Matt Gaetz whether Biden's claim that he "did not share classified information" was accurate, Hur said the president's statement was "inconsistent with the findings."
In his report, Hur explained that the evidence "does not establish Mr. Biden's guilt beyond a reasonable doubt" citing factors related to the president's "significantly limited" memory.
"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 wrote. "Based on our direct interactions with and observations of him, he is someone for 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."
This is a breaking story and will be updated.
The report found that while Biden "willfully retained and disclosed" classified materials, criminal charges were not warranted.
"Did the White House get the report before the report was made public?" Chairman Jim Jordan asked.
"We did provide a draft of the report to the White House counsel's office and members of the president's personal counsel team for their review," Hur replied.
When asked whether the White House "tried to weigh in with your investigation on elements of that report and get the report changed," Hur said that officials did, in fact, "request certain edits and changes to the draft report."
This was not the only potentially damning information revealed by Hur during his testinomy.
Hur noted that there was "one response the president gave to a question posed to him that we deemed to be 'not credible'."
When asked by Rep. Matt Gaetz whether Biden's claim that he "did not share classified information" was accurate, Hur said the president's statement was "inconsistent with the findings."
In his report, Hur explained that the evidence "does not establish Mr. Biden's guilt beyond a reasonable doubt" citing factors related to the president's "significantly limited" memory.
"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 wrote. "Based on our direct interactions with and observations of him, he is someone for 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."
This is a breaking story and will be updated.
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