Biden responds to special counsel’s report on handling of classified documents

President Joe Biden put the blame for handling classified documents on his staff, saying he was responsible for “not seeing exactly what” they were doing.

Asked by reporters if he was to blame for his careless handling of classified material, Biden said: “I blame my staff for not looking at exactly what they were doing.” “Whatever shows up in the garage, comes out of the house, is moved, it’s by my staff, not me.”

Asked what else he would do afterward, Biden said: “Overseeing the transfer of materials that were in my office.”

“I should have done that,” he said. “If I went back, I wasn’t responsible. I mean, my staff was supposed to do it, and they referenced it in their reports. And my staff… I didn’t do it that way – for example, I didn’t know how half of the boxes ended up in my garage until the staff collected them, assembled them, and took them out of my garage.”

He also drew comparisons to former President Donald Trump’s handling of classified documents, saying his documents “were not taken to a public place like Mar-Lago, and none of them were highly classified.” “No documents were included.” The red thing on it. you know what i mean? That red stuff around the corners? None of that. “

Special Counsel Robert Hur found in a report released early Thursday that Biden did not adequately protect classified documents, but said Biden should not face criminal charges.