The Justice Department is reviewing the discovery of classified documents in a private office used by Joe Biden between the end of his vice presidency in 2017 and the start of his 2020 campaign for the presidency, the White House confirmed on Monday
For the Biden situation, Attorney General Merrick Garland has reportedly asked U.S. Attorney John Lausch Jr. to head the preliminary investigation. CBS also reports that the FBI is involved in the inquiry. According to CBS, Lausch recently briefed Garland and the investigation is reportedly expected to conclude soon. After Lausch submits a final report, Garland will determine whether a special counsel investigation is necessary.Lausch currently serves as the U.S.
Jack Smith—a former prosecutor for the Justice Department as well as for The Hague who is also overseeing the criminal investigation into whether there was unlawful interference in the Jan. 6, 2021, transfer of power—to lead the probe into Trump’s handling of those classified documents as well as any potential related obstruction of justice.
The statement from President Biden’s counsel on Monday noted that the classified documents found in the former Vice President’s office “were not the subject of any previous request or inquiry by the Archives.” Biden’s legal team says it promptly surrendered all documents in question to the proper authorities and has been cooperating with inquiries into the matter.
Since the seizure of documents from his Mar-a-Lago home, Trump and his conservative supporters have argued that the investigation into him is politically motivated.on CBS in September, Biden was asked to react to a photograph showing documents the FBI retrieved from Mar-a-Lago. The President questioned “how that could possibly happen, how anyone could be that irresponsible.
“This is further concern that there’s a two-tier justice system within the DOJ with how they treat Republicans versus Democrats, certainly how they treat the former president versus the current president,” Comer added, according to theRep. Jim Jordan of Ohio said the American public should have known about this earlier. It is unclear why the White House did not reveal the documents’ discovery sooner.
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