I predict all of this will go away regarding any consequences for Biden. It does at least somewhat take the winds out of the “prosecute Trump for the MAL documents” sails, though. My guess is that their case against Trump regarding the documents at MAL already wasn’t bearing much fruit, although never underestimate the ability of a determined prosecutor to charge and convict a ham sandwich. In the case of Garland and Biden, however, there is the opposite goal – to exonerate him. Hur has a pretty low profile, and so far I haven’t been able to detect what his attitude is towards Biden.
Biden doesn’t even have the possible defense available to Trump, which is that as president he had declassified the papers in question. Biden was VP at the time he took them, not president.
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