Biden’s campaign fears Trump could use the report and any accompanying photos to create equivalency with his charges…reports Asian Lite News
US President Joe Biden’s team fears that the results of a classified documents investigation could lead to embarrassing information, and possibly photos, that could hurt his re-election campaign, media reports said.
Biden’s aides believe that though special counsel Robert Hur’s investigation won’t lead to any criminal charges, as per Axios, unflattering details and photos could still lead to political fallout.
Former President Donald Trump is facing felony charges related to his handling of classified documents that he took to his Florida home on the last day of his office in the White House. Soon after Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home was raided by the FBI in August 2022, Biden weighed in by asking aloud how “anyone could be that irresponsible”.
But Biden soon found himself at the receiving end of the Department of Justice (DOJ)’s case on the classified documents scandal, when documents from his eight-year term as Vice President were found in his Wilmington home and at the Penn Biden Center think tank in Washington.
Biden’s campaign fears Trump could use the report and any accompanying photos to create equivalency with his charges, Axios reported.
Hur’s investigation is believed to be finished and could be released as soon as this week, the Washington Examiner reported.
Meanwhile, US President Joe Biden won the South Carolina primary on Saturday, giving him the kind of emphatic result he no doubt envisioned when he made the state the first contest on the Democrat’s presidential nominating calendar, The New York Times reported.
The leading US daily reported that Biden won an overwhelming majority of South Carolina Democrats, more than 96 per cent with 80 per cent of the vote counted, dominating every county with more than 95 per cent of the vote, including in heavily Black areas.
President Biden vowed that South Carolina would once again send him to the White House.
“The people of South Carolina have spoken again, and I have no doubt that you have set us on the path to winning the presidency again — and making Donald Trump a loser again,” the president said in a statement released by his campaign.