Joe Biden Met With Special Counsel For ‘Voluntary Interview,’ White House Says
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President Joe Biden sat down for interviews on Sunday and Monday with Special Counsel Robert Hur, who is investigating the president over classified documents found at Biden’s home and an office he used after departing as vice president.
In a statement emailed to Mediaite, White House spokesman Ian Sams revealed the president spoke with Hur in a “voluntary interview”:
The President has been interviewed as part of the investigation being led by Special Counsel Robert Hur. The voluntary interview was conducted at the White House over two days, Sunday and Monday, and concluded Monday. As we have said from the beginning, the President and the White House are cooperating with this investigation, and as it has been appropriate, we have provided relevant updates publicly, being as transparent as we can consistent with protecting and preserving the integrity of the investigation. We would refer other questions to the Justice Department at this time.
Hur’s probe began when layers for Biden reported that they found classified documents while moving material from an office Biden used after he left the vice presidency. Classified documents were also found at the president’s home in Delaware.
In August, NBC News reported that Biden’s lawyers were in talks with Hur to arrange the interview.
Hur’s questioning of Biden comes as former President Donald Trump is under indictment for what the Department of Justice alleges was his willful retention of classified documents after leaving office and his efforts to obstruct the government’s efforts to retrieve them. In August, 2022, FBI agents executed a search warrant at his Mar-a-Lago resort, where they found troves of government material. That came after an attorney for Trump wrote a letter to the Department of Justice stating that to the best of her knowledge, Trump did not possess any government documents.
Trump is also under three other criminal indictments, two of which stem from his attempt to overturn the 2020 presidential election, which he lost. Special Counsel Jack Smith is prosecuting the federal election case and the documents case against the former president.
