research on the processing of confidential documents U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland announced in a letter to members of Congress on Wednesday that the challenge facing U.S. President Joe Biden is over and that the special prosecutor in charge of the case will soon release his findings.
In the letter in question, which was accessed by EFE, Garland did not provide details about prosecutor Robert Hur’s conclusions. Investigation into Biden due to secret documents found in 2022 at his home in Wilmington, Delaware, and in his private office at the Penn Biden Center in Washington, DC. Following the discovery of these documents, Garland appointed Hur, who is close to the Republican Party, to serve as special prosecutor in January last year. . .
The figure of special prosecutor is used in the United States for cases over which the country’s attorney general may have jurisdiction. Conflict of interest in the subject matter being researchedAs is the case, given that Garland was appointed to the post by Biden himself and that the president will run again in the 2024 election.
Special prosecutors act independently of the Justice Department and, after completing their investigation, usually prepare a report that is first sent to Congress and then made public. Hur’s report may include: Suggestions on whether criminal charges should be brought against Biden. But prosecutors do not plan to charge anyone, according to The Washington Post on Tuesday.
Investigations into presidents and their advisors are always complicated because Justice Department policy is that a sitting head of state cannot be charged with a crime. However, if there is evidence of this, Biden’s advisors may be accused.
At the center of the investigation are documents from the period when Biden was vice president under Barack Obama (2009-2017), which the current president’s lawyers found while cleaning his private office at the Penn Biden Center in November 2022. Center affiliated with the University of Pennsylvania. In this case, they were immediately returned to the National Archives, which is responsible for preserving such official documents, and an investigation was opened at the Department of Justice to determine whether any laws had been violated.
In late December 2022, Biden’s lawyers searched his Wilmington home and found a “small number” of documents in the garage with signs identifying them as belonging. classified materialAs later reported by the White House. In January, attorneys found other documents in a room adjacent to the garage of the Wilmington home. Biden’s beach house in Rehoboth, Delaware, was also searched last year, but no classified materials were found, according to the White House.
Trump is also being investigated He is being tried for 40 separate crimes He was sent to Florida for mishandling classified documents and obstruction of justice because he kept these materials in boxes at his Mar-a-Lago (Florida) mansion for months and refused to return them to the National Archives. According to the information made public, both investigations are very different from each other: In the Biden investigation, the number of documents in question is around 20, while Trump is alleged to have unlawfully kept 300 documents. Additionally, while Biden collaborated with investigators, Trump has repeatedly refused to return documents and the FBI had to break into his Mar-a-Lago mansion to seize boxes of classified documents still in custody in August 2022.
There is no exact date for the release of the final report on the Biden investigation. But the issue will certainly shake up the campaign for the November election, in which Biden could once again face Trump, the favorite for the Republican presidential nomination.