“Our investigation uncovered evidence that President Biden willfully retained and disclosed classified materials after his vice presidency when he was a private citizen,” the report begins. The material included marked classified documents about Afghanistan policy, found in a box in his Wilmington garage, and notebooks of handwritten notes on national security that he kept in unlocked drawers at home and read from to his ghostwriter, Mark Zwonitzer. [1]
Hur still concluded that “the evidence does not establish Mr. Biden’s guilt beyond a reasonable doubt.” He gave several reasons: Biden could plausibly have forgotten the Afghanistan papers or not known they were there; he may have thought the notebooks were his own property, as Reagan had; he cooperated and reported the documents himself. Then came the line about how a jury would see him. [1]
He also drew a contrast with Trump: Trump, Hur wrote, had refused to return documents and allegedly obstructed the investigation, while Biden turned his over. Hur told Congress, “I did not sanitize my explanation. Nor did I disparage the President unfairly.” [1][2][3]
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