Special counsel Robert Hur hit Democrats with a gut punch on Thursday: He wouldn’t be bringing charges against Joe Biden, not because he didn’t mishandle classified documents, but because the 81-year-old president presented himself as an “elderly man with a poor memory” who a jury would find hard to convict.
“They were really worried about this report,” one source familiar with White House discussions told NOTUS. “I guess I know why now.”
Privately, Democratic officials and Biden allies frantically traded text messages, worried about how bad the news was.