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The White House on Tuesday insisted the case against President Joe Biden in his handling of classified documents is 'closed' and 'it's time to move on.'
'There is no case. The case is closed. It's time to move on,' spokesman Ian Sams said after special counsel Robert Hur spent hours testifying about his findings before the House Judiciary Committee.
But Hur rejected claims from Democrats he had 'completely exonerated' Biden by not charging him with mishandling classified documents during his fiery appearance in Congress.
'I did not exonerate him,' Hur said and noted the word 'exoneration' did not appear in the report.
Hur was investigating how classified documents ended up in an office formerly used by Biden and in his home in Wilmington, Del . Hur, who was appointed to the position by Attorney General Merrick Garland, concluded there was insufficient evidence to charge Biden with a crime.
'There is no case. The case is closed. It's time to move on,' White House spokesman Ian Sams (above) said
But the White House argued Hur found Biden innocent, charged House Republicans with holding a politically-motivated event to help Donald Trump in the 2024 presidential election, and urged the other side to move on to other things like funding the government.
'When a prosecutor spends 15 months investigating a case only to determine that there is no case here and that there will be no charges, and that the case is closed, it only affirms the innocence of the president,' Sams said.
'President Biden's been cleared, that's the whole decision that was made by the prosecutor.'
Sams claimed the hearing was merely politics to help Trump, who faces federal charges related to his handling of classified documents. FBI agents found a trove of classified documents in Mar-a-Lago when they raided the former president's Palm Beach home.
'House Republicans tried to make it a big deal. They want to attack the president politically. They're making it very obvious that they're trying to help the former president. And it's a failure. We need to work on the things that actually matter for the American people. We need to work on getting aid to Ukraine, we need to work on securing our border. We need to work on a spending package that avoids a shutdown next week.'
During the hearing, Hur faced attacks from Republicans for concluding Biden hadn't done anything to warrant charges against him.
And Democrats attacked the special counsel for his attacks on Biden's memory. His report described the 81-year-old Biden as 'a sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory.'
During the hearing, Hur defended his findings on the president's state of mind, saying he could not make a decision on whether Biden's retaining of classified documents
