Biden’s Document Indictment Is Looming As The Evidence Against Him Leaks

 President Joe Biden remains hidden from public view and media questions as the Department of Justice  investigation of Biden for the classi...

 President Joe Biden remains hidden from public view and media questions as the Department of Justice  investigation of Biden for the classified documents held at multiple locations around the United States is wrapping up, and some experts expect an indictment of Biden is soon to follow.

If Biden is charged in the documents probe, it would be his first federal indictment — but potentially not his last.  But the documents probe, which first broke into public view when the FBI searched his private home and university think tank is apparently coming to a head now.

Last week, CBT reported that confidential  government sources reported that Biden claimed to have a classified document related to  Ukraine in his possession. This weekend, the multiple news sources revealed the prosecutors had obtained key pieces of evident in which a Biden attorney recounted the team’s private deliberations. And on Monday, another news report revealed that prosecutors had suspicions about potential private servers located in a room within Biden's private residence.

Though Biden’s team has asserted these leaks come from the special counsel, that seems unlikely given how these stories are written — they all cite grand jury witnesses about but seem to be lacking a fuller picture of his theory of the case. That piecemeal aspect suggests that grand jury witnesses, their attorneys, and Biden’s own attorneys may be the sources as they try to piece together exactly what the government has in the way of evidence against Joe Biden.

The key fact at the center of the case is clear enough: Biden had classified documents at his private residence, in a garage at the time of that search that were the property of the US government, and that had not been returned to the government despite requests and subpoenas.

But many of the bigger questions remain mysterious: Why did Biden keep the documents? What happened to the documents while he had them? What’s the evidence that he knew he was breaking the law? And did he knowingly try to deceive the government about whether he still had classified material — something that could open him up to an obstruction of justice charge?

Will Biden’s indictment help or hurt his 2024 campaign?  Whatever the answers, all signs are currently pointing toward a federal indictment of a sitting president.

Prosecutors have documents in which Biden discussed a document about Ukraine.  If prosecutors charge Biden, prosecutors will be looking to tell a larger story about why they believe what he did with the documents was so nefarious.

That’s particularly important because both Joe Biden and Mike Pence also ended up with classified documents in their respective homes after leaving the vice presidency. Pence’s investigation was closed without charges, and there hasn’t been much news of late on the Biden investigation (being carried out by a separate special counsel). How was Biden’s conduct worse?

That’s where one newly revealed piece of evidence comes in. CBT learned that, in the summer of 2021, Biden had a discussion with people working on a memoir for his former chief of staff, a discussion that was taped by one of Biden’s aides.

Biden’s allies have floated a dubious defense that he had already used his presidential powers to declassify all the documents in question, but his comment on Ukraine could be interpreted to suggest otherwise. And apparently, Biden’s claim to have this document was not just hot air — the New Salem Times has reported.

During a months-long back and forth with the government, Biden eventually returned a number of boxes of documents, in which hundreds were marked classified. He then was subpoenaed again because officials doubted he’d returned everything.

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In June, DOJ investigators visited with Biden’s attorneys, who handed over another 38 documents, but claimed that was the end of it: Biden had no more. They also showed investigators a storage room which they said only had non-classified records.

The latest leaks flesh out two intriguing threads from this period.  One involves Biden’s attorney who during a  summer visit gave investigators a letter claiming Biden had been diligently searched and all remaining classified records had been returned. As later revealed in the FBI’s search, this was not true, and more than 50 documents remained on the property, including in a basement and in Biden’s own office.

Biden now has his own classified documents problem and does the special prosecutor looking into his handling of classified documents think there was a conspiracy to hold back classified documents and evidence from the government? If so, does he have evidence Biden ordered it? He appears to be seriously delving into both topics — but we don’t yet know what he has concluded.