Nov 17, 2023
No Charges For Biden In Classified Docs Investigation
It has been announced that President Biden will not be charged in the classified documents probe by Special counsel Robert Hur.
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Special counsel Robert Kerr is not
expected to be putting forward any charges
coming from the investigation
into the President Joe Biden area.
Of the classified documents investigation,
very different from some other
classified documents investigations
we've talked about on the show.
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If you're not familiar with this
and why the president might
have had charges coming his way.
Well, with the cooperation
of Biden's personal legal team,
the FBI searched the Pen Biden Center
shortly after November 2nd of last year.
That was when Biden aides found classified
material there and surrendered it
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to the National Archives.
Agents later went in,
searched Biden's homes, where they turned
up further classified documents.
Now, in the wake of that, and at
this point, we already had Donald Trump's
classified documents and former Vice
President Mike pence classified documents.
There was a lot
of special counseling going on.
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So they decided fair is fair.
We're going to have a special counsel
that investigates the president as well.
And then not only did that, but they
chose Robert Hur, who is a Trump appointed
US attorney, which seems like it would
be relevant when making an evaluation.
If all this is political, nobody cared.
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As soon as he was appointed, not a single
Republican cared that Trump is the guy
who had picked him from then on.
But anyway, they are preparing
their report right now.
The investigation has been
going on for some time.
It has been exhaustive
and sometimes exhausting.
They've talked to many, many people
who have had something to do
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with the classified documents
and their movement and storage,
and we're expecting that sometime
within probably the next three months.
That report is going to be put forward,
and they are expecting that it is going
to be critical of President Biden, as well
as his team, saying that they could
have been more responsible, more timely.
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But it is not expected at this point
that there will be charges.
There's a lot more to this, but why don't
we jump into it, starting with you?
Sharon, what do you make of this?
It's nothing to see.
Here is what I really make of this.
We all saw this coming, including the
playbook by the Republicans who were for
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someone, and now they're against someone.
I think this is a waste of money,
to be honest with you.
They could have just said, come on over.
You want to see my office?
It's a mess.
Okay.
I left a few things around on the floor.
Nothing to see here.
Totally agree. It was a waste of money.
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But my favorite part is, you know, Trump's
reaction to it, which is like what?
We did, what he did.
Why do I get charged?
And he doesn't get charged?
Which is ridiculous because as we know
as we all know, Joe Biden is, you know,
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an ancient man who probably like it was
probably like the equivalent of toilet
paper stuck to the bottom of his shoe.
Like he just had a classified document
stuck to the bottom of his shoe, and he.
And he got home and he was like,
oh, what's this?
Like, he's just kind of this bumbling
old man who was like,
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oh, oh, how did this get here?
I don't even know.
Whereas Donald Trump's situation
was clearly orchestrated and planned
and and, you know, boxes and boxes
and boxes of documents stored in, like,
the bathroom at Mar a Lago
as opposed to Joe Biden being like,
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oh, I guess, I guess somehow this ended
up on the stuck to the bottom of my shoe.
So, I mean, come on. Like.
Yeah.
And in terms of imagery, of course,
you know, you referenced things stuck to
the bottom of the shoe, which is something
that did happen to Donald Trump once, very
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notably while he's walking to his plane.
But like the imagery coming out of these
two cases is that Donald Trump
had them stored next to his toilet.
And thanks to Donald Trump,
we know that Biden had them stored
next to his Corvette.
Way to make yourself
look like the weirdo of the two.
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I'm not saying having classified documents
in your garage is a good thing
or necessarily a good look, but if I had
to choose from the two, I think I know
which I would choose of those.
So anyway, this is, as I've alluded to,
an early leak
and we've still got several months.
And look, who knows,
maybe the leak is wrong.
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There were multiple sources
that spoke to CNN,
but it could be that something changes.
It could also be that, you know, based on
reaction to this, and we're going to give
you the reaction of some Republicans
who are not happy about this leak,
that maybe they modify the report,
but I can't imagine they'd go to the point
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of actually pushing for charges.
And as we're going to get into there was
just like, we can talk about the scenario
of where the documents were held,
but but more importantly, the process
of getting the documents back was
so different between Joe Biden and Donald
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Trump that unless you are 100% willfully
blinded by partizanship, by tribalism,
I don't know how you can expect that they
should both suffer the same consequences
when they didn't do the same thing.
And we are going to get by the way
to to Donald Trump's response.
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But before we do that, any any
other thoughts about Biden's side of this?
Lock him up. Lock him up?
- I mean.
- Of course this is not going to end here.
And they will say, lock him up,
charge him, maybe even death penalty.
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Hillary was visiting with her emails.
Who knows what they'll say,
but it's not going to end.
And the fake news will
prevail on this one.
And depending on who occupies
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue,
maybe something will happen.
Maybe we will see a perp walk for.
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