“I’ve seen headlines since the report was released about my willful retention of documents. This … assertion is not only misleading but just plain wrong.”
What PolitiFact found
Special Counsel Robert Hur decided against pursuing criminal charges. However, the report states clearly that the special counsel found evidence that Biden did willfully retain classified documents.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Joe Biden (president) made this claim around 9 February 2024. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 10 February 2024, 1 day later. Its rating was “It's complicated”.
Joe Biden has 509 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 140 of them false or fake, 281 misleading or mixed and 34 true.
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