‘It Was Probably A Close Call’: Former GOP Rep Charlie Dent Claims Biden is ‘Lucky He’s Not Prosecuted’

Former Republican Congressman Charlie Dent (R-PA) claimed that President Joe Biden was “lucky” he wasn’t charged by the DOJ for holding on to classified material after his term as vice president ended.

CNN’s Sara Sidner asked Dent for his take on the DOJ report that concluded Biden had a “poor memory” and that he “willfully retained” the classified material.

“I think in many respects, Sara, that President Biden is a little bit lucky that he was not prosecuted, because when you get beyond, you know, he’s an older gentleman with a faulty memory, but you look at the substance of the matter, you know, he willfully retained classified material.” Dent continued:

It does not appear that he retained it in a way that was incidental or accidental. He knew he had it and he shared it with his ghostwriter. And it was obviously not properly secured in his home. So, I think this is a real problem for the president, both substantively and certainly on the political side, based on, you know, the faulty memory. So I think this is a really bad look for Joe Biden in so many ways.

Again, as a former member of congress, I can tell you, I had the privilege to have access to classified material, and there was no walking out of a skiff with classified material. You know, I’m not sure what goes on in the White House or at the naval observatory, at the vice president’s residency, how they handle that material.

But we’ve seen problems not just with Joe Biden, but with Mike Pence, and certainly Donald Trump. So, there is a big problem here, and I think Biden is lucky he’s not prosecuted. It was probably a close call, and the prosecutor decided he was not going to bring charges.

“There’s a Comey-equeness to this whole thing,” Dent continued. “James Comey basically chose not to bring charges against Hillary Clinton because of her mishandling classified material through her private server. But then he went on to indict her politically, saying she was careless and reckless in handling that material. So, it kind of felt like that.”

Clinton was leading in the polls in 2016 before FBI Director James Comey released information about classified documents and her email server. Trump immediately pounced on that information and went on to win the presidential election.

Watch the clip above via CNN.