GOP calls on AG Merrick Garland to appoint special counsel to probe Biden over classified docs
Garland appointed special counsel Jack Smith to handle the DOJ's Trump investigations, in part to insulate the agency from allegations of partisanship.
Republicans are increasingly demanding that Attorney General Merrick Garland appoint a special counsel to handle the Department of Justice's investigations involving the Biden family, pointing to his appointment of special counsel Jack Smith to handle matters involving former President Donald Trump.
Wednesday’s reports of more classified documents being found come on the heels of Monday’s revelation that 10 sensitive files from Biden’s time as vice president — some marked “top secret” — were retrieved by lawyers for the commander in chief on Nov. 2, 2022, from the Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement think tank in Washington and turned over to the National Archives.
Hawley wrote to Garland on Wednesday, formally asking the DOJ to appoint a special counsel, noting that Biden appeared to have done “exactly what President Trump did.”
“The double standard here is astounding. The underlying behavior at issue — a President’s retention of old classified documents dating back to a past presidency — is materially the same in both cases,” Hawley wrote. “But in President Trump’s case, that retention triggered an unprecedented raid on the home of a former president, rationalized with a thicket of partisan doublespeak.”
Republicans have long pushed for a special counsel to investigate first son Hunter Biden over his myriad scandals. The revelations of the president's scattered classified materials, however, have intensified such demands, with many demanding that the DOJ handle the president in the same way it did Trump.
Texas GOP Rep. Troy Nehls on Wednesday tweeted that "Attorney General Merrick Garland must appoint a special counsel" following revelations of the second batch's discovery.
In an interview with Fox News's Martha MacCallum, South Carolina GOP Sen. Lindsey Graham addressed Garland, asserting that he needed to address the Biden matter as he did Trump.
"If there is not a special counsel appointed to find out how this happened with President Biden regarding classified information... it will hurt the country," he said.
On Tuesday, Biden told reporters in Mexico City that he was “surprised” to learn that records from the Obama White House had been found at his office in the Penn Biden Center.
“I don’t know what’s in the documents,” the president said. “My lawyers have not suggested I ask what documents they were. I’ve turned over the boxes, they’ve turned over the boxes to the [National ]Archives, and we’re cooperating fully, cooperating fully with the review, which I hope will be finished soon, and there’ll be more detail at that time.”
Chicago US Attorney John Lausch, a Trump appointee, reportedly has submitted a preliminary report on the documents to Garland and has briefed the attorney general several times on the matter.
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