According to Hur, there are several reasons not to prosecute Biden. For example, the current American president may have taken some documents home with him while he was still in office as vice president. Then he was allowed to.
In late 2022, classified documents were found in Biden’s office at the Penn Biden Center, a think tank affiliated with the University of Pennsylvania. Subsequently, confidential documents were also discovered during a search of his home in Wilmington, Delaware. The documents date from Biden’s period as vice president (2009-2017) and as senator.
The documents include a 2009 handwritten memo to then-President Barack Obama about Afghanistan and notes from intelligence briefings.
In the report, Hur noted that Biden cooperated with the investigation and returned the classified documents after they were discovered — noting the significant differences between this case and the one against former President Donald Trump, who was indicted last year in connection with his dealings with secret documents after he left the White House. However, the Republican former president refused to return the secret documents.
Some Republicans, however, accuse the prosecutor of applying a double standard.