U.S. President Joe Biden takes questions from reporters on classified documents as he delivers remarks on the economy and inflation in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on January 12, 2023 in Washington, DC.
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Neither President Joe Biden nor anyone else is expected to be criminally charged in an investigation into how classified documents ended up in locations associated with Biden, NBC News reported Tuesday.
A senior law enforcement official told NBC that a report on that probe by Department of Justice special counsel Robert Hur will be made public in the coming days.
Hur has spent more than a year investigating how classified government documents came to be sent to Biden’s home in Wilmington, Delaware, and to a Washington, D.C., office he had maintained before becoming president in January 2021.
By law, such documents should have been sent to the National Archives after Biden ceased being vice president in early 2017.
Hur’s investigation began in January 2023, months after former President Donald Trump was indicted on federal criminal charges related to his retaining hundreds of classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago club after he left the White House, and to his efforts to prevent government officials from recovering that material.
Trump has pleaded not guilty in that case in Florida, which has yet to go to trial.
Trump is the leading candidate for the Republican presidential nomination. Biden, a Democrat, is seeking re-election this year.
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