Biden’s classified docs case likely 'isn’t over' — If Trump can help it: legal analyst
President Joe Biden will not face charges over his handling of classified documents, according to special counsel Robert Hur's report released to Congress Thursday.
Hur — who, according to NBC News, was appointed by Donald Trump "as one of the country's top federal prosecutors" — "made clear the 'material distinctions' between a theoretical case against Biden and the pending case against Trump for his handling of classified documents, noting the 'serious aggravating facts' in Trump's case."
NBC also reported earlier this week that Trump's lawyers said they "plan to file multiple motions to dismiss the criminal charges against" the former president in his Mar-a-Lago classified documents case.
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During Thursday's episode of MSNBC's Deadline: White House, guest host Alicia Menendez spoke with legal analyst Lisa Rubin and lawyer Maya Wiley about the political implications of the outcome of Biden's case.
"We know that this is not over politically," Menendez said. "In some ways this is the beginning of the beginning. Legally, is this over for President Biden?" she asked Rubin.
The legal analyst replied, "It should be, but let me answer that questin a little bit differently. Federal statute of limitations generally is five years. In making this declination decision, it's not clear to me that a future Department of Justice is necessarily bound by it, and in a Trump Department of Justice, with a five-year statute of limitations from the time of the discovery of the alleged willful retention, which was in fall of 2022 — I'm not sure that President Biden and those around him can be sure that this is an all clear. Normally, in the normal course it should be. But I can't tell you sitting here today that if former President Trump is elected that it will be."
Wiley chimed in, emphasizing, "Former President Trump has made clear he will weaponize the power of the Department of Justice against anyone he deems an enemy. He’s been explicit about it. So, I think Lisa’s right."
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