The differences between the Trump and Biden documents cases

Washington - Special counsel Robert Hur's report detailing his investigation into President Biden for allegedly retaining sensitive government information as a private citizen drew immediate comparisons to the case against former President Donald Trump, who faces 40 federal charges for obstruction and allegedly keeping dozens of sensitive documents once he left the White House.

The charges against Trump were filed by another special counsel, Jack Smith. Trump has pleaded not guilty and has continually criticized Smith's probe. He seized on Hur's findings on Thursday to call for the charges filed against him to be dropped, saying Hur's decision to not bring charges in the Biden case was evidence of the Justice Department's political motivations.

But Hur himself laid out what he said were important distinctions between the two legal cases. And experts said that how Trump and Mr. Biden responded once they were made aware they might have sensitive records and the nature of the documents themselves were key reasons for why the investigations ended differently.