Attorney General Merrick Garland appointed former U.S. District Attorney for the District of Maryland Robert Hur as the special counsel in the Biden classified documents case.
Classified documents have been found at his personal office in DC and the garage at his Wilmington home.
What the: “The Biden team did not report finding the second batch of classified documents in Delaware on Dec. 20 — six weeks after they found the initial cache in Washington, and after the 2022 midterm elections.”
Oh, look. Politico is grasping at straws to make Trump having classified documents worse than Biden because of how each one responded:
Still, there are significant differences in the timeline of the Trump-related documents and those found at Biden’s office and home. The National Archives discovered the presence of records with classified markings at Mar-a-Lago in January 2022, after a protracted effort to reclaim presidential records that Trump had warehoused at his estate since leaving office. Trump sent an initial batch of 15 boxes back to the archive that month.After discovering the material marked classified, NARA forwarded the matter to the Justice Department, which soon subpoenaed Trump’s presidential office for all other documents with classified markings. The department also subpoenaed security footage to review the handling of the documents, which were kept in a storage room and Trump’s personal office.But DOJ investigators said evidence they collected showed that even after the subpoena, Trump’s team had not turned over everything in their possession — even as the ex-president’s aides presented DOJ with a signed attestation that all subpoenaed documents had been turned over. The FBI discovered another trove of sensitive records after executing a search at Trump’s estate in August, including some that he kept in his personal office.Biden’s team, by contrast, has repeatedly emphasized their proactive approach to the discovery of the records. In two statements, White House counsel Richard Sauber said Biden’s own team discovered the documents, immediately alerted NARA and the Justice Department and returned the records. Similarly, they conducted additional searches and have pledged to cooperate with DOJ investigators.
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