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Reason
Liz Wolfe

Nice Old Man

Poor guy: Yesterday, Special Counsel Robert K. Hur released a report saying that, though his "investigation uncovered evidence that President [Joe] Biden willfully retained and disclosed classified materials after his vice presidency when he was a private citizen," he will not be prosecuted, as "it would be difficult to convince a jury that they should convict him-by then a former president well into his eighties-of a serious felony that requires a mental state of willfulness."

The report has become a political liability for Biden, as it describes him as a "well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory" with "diminished faculties in advancing age."

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