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Feb 08 2024
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Special counsel: No charges for Biden in classified documents probe
Joe Biden carelessly handled classified materials found at his home and former office and shared government secrets with his ghostwriter, but prosecutors decided no chargeable crime was committed, according to a long-awaited special counsel report released Thursday. Sign up for Fact Checker, our weekly review of what's true, false or in-between in politics. The 345-page Justice Department
Washington PostFeb 22 2024
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Republicans Distort Facts on Special Counsel Decision Not to Charge Biden
At their weekly news conference, several Republican House leaders wrongly claimed the special counsel report into Joe Biden’s handling of classified documents found the president was mentally unfit to stand trial. The report said no such thing.
Special Counsel Robert Hur’s report ultimately concluded “the evidence is not sufficient to convict” Biden and that “no criminal charges are
FactCheck.orgApr 05 2024
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RFK Jr. downplays Jan. 6 attack, says he wants a special counsel to review related cases
The statement comes a day after a Kennedy campaign fundraising email referred to Jan. 6 defendants as “activists” who have been “stripped of their Constitutional liberties.” The campaign later retracted the email and said the communication, which claimed the defendants have been stripped of their rights, “does not reflect Mr. Kennedy’s views.” Text messages and speeches made public across
Washington PostFeb 16 2024
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Special Counsel Who Questioned Biden's Memory To Testify In Congress
Seeking to keep a spotlight on President Joe Biden’s age, House Republicans will hold a public hearing next month with the Justice Department special counsel who found evidence that the president had mishandled classified information when he was out of office but who also concluded that criminal charges were not warranted.
The House Judiciary Committee, chaired by conservative firebrand
HuffPostFeb 15 2024
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Special counsel Robert Hur to testify publicly on Biden investigation
Special counsel Robert Hur will appear publicly before the House Judiciary Committee on March 12 to answer questions about his investigation into President Biden’s handling of classified records. The hearing, confirmed by a source familiar, comes as Republicans have called his failure to recommend charges for Biden part of a broader “double standard” amid former President Trump’s prosecution
The HillFeb 13 2024
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House Republicans Give a Deadline for Transcript of Special Counsel Interview
After the release of Special Counsel Robert Hur's report from last Thursday, House Republicans on the Oversight and House Judiciary Committees as well as House Committee on Ways and Means have demanded the transcript of the interviews Biden gave as part of the investigation. As Matt has covered, the White House has been particularly resistant to such a release. On Monday, however, the
TownhallFeb 10 2024
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Harris says special counsel report on Biden was "politically motivated"
Vice President Kamala Harris on Friday slammed the special counsel report questioning President Biden's memory, and praised how "on top of it all" he was in responding to the Israel-Hamas war.
The big picture: Harris' defense of her running mate comes amid fallout from Special counsel Robert Hur's report that described Biden as an "elderly man with a poor memory" whose handling of
AxiosFeb 10 2024
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Inside Biden’s five-hour face-off with the special counsel
Those five hours and 10 minutes of interviews, unfolding over two days, would turn out to be momentous. But at the time, few foresaw how they would blow up four months later — not because of their content, but because Hur would repeatedly deride Biden’s memory during their time together. In a long-awaited report issued this week, Hur declined to prosecute Biden over his handling of classified
Washington PostFeb 09 2024
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Special Counsel Report Prompts Lawmaker to Call for Biden’s Removal
A New York congresswoman says President Biden must be prosecuted or removed from office. Rep. Claudia Tenney (R-N.Y.) is calling for President Joe Biden’s removal from office via the 25th Amendment after the special counsel who probed his handling of classified documents reported that the president showed signs of “diminished faculties and faulty memory.” Ms. Tenney, in a Feb. 8 letter to
The Epoch TimesFeb 09 2024
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Special counsel recommends no charges, but probes Biden’s political weakness
Happening this Friday: Donald Trump wins Nevada caucuses and captures all four delegates from Virgin Islands… President Biden blasts special counsel’s charge of Biden’s “poor memory”… Supreme Court signals it’s unlikely to let Colorado bar Trump from the 2024 ballot… And the final release from latest NBC News poll: More voters rate Trump’s presidency as “better than expected” in hindsight. But
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