Special counsel Robert Hur released a report Thursday in which he concluded that Biden willfully possessed classified information covering important national security matters but declined to pursue criminal charges against the president, according to his report. Hur said Biden, if forced to stand trial, “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 also said 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.”
Biden responded by defending his mental acuity and denying that his handling of the documents violated the law.
