McCarthy: Biden Docs Were “Pushed Under the Rug”

THe Department of Justice When it comes to investigating Presidents, there is a double standard Joe BidenHouse Speaker: House Speaker’s handling of classified papers Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) stated Wednesday.

Instant comparisons were made to the former President Donald Trump’s reaction to the discovery of classified documents that Barack Obama had held at a think tank connected to Biden. Besitz of classified documents His presidency. Biden’s documents first became public this week after they were discovered Nov. 2, just days before the midterm elections.

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“Why does his Justice Department treat people differently? Every time we find something that comes out before the election dealing with Biden’s family, it’s pushed under the rug,” McCarthy Telled reporters, who brought up the fact that Hunter Biden’s laptop was deleted by Twitter before the 2020 election. He said that the DOJ’s approach towards the Biden documents shows the need for the New House subcommittee for the “weaponization” Government agencies

McCarthy discussed the revelations with Fox News’s McCarthy Sean Hannity Tuesday night

“They’ve gotten away with so much for so long. This was discovered before the last election — just like the laptop,” He said that he added, “They think they can lie to the American public. They think they can control the media, control companies to shut down if one media company writes about it. They think they’re above the law.”

Republicans quickly asked why the news took so long to get out and then reacted to the Justice Department’s handling of Trump’s classified records.

A raid on Trump’s Florida Mar-a-Lago house in August revealed 300 potentially classified documents that he should have returned to National Archives.

“Why weren’t they raided? Why didn’t they have the FBI coming in?” McCarthy asked Tuesday.

Biden’s defenders They pointed out that Trump’s legal counsel immediately alerted authorities to the documents and that he did so voluntarily, but Trump refused to cooperate.

House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-KY) sent letters to the National Archives and White House Counsel’s Office requesting information about the documents.

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“For months, NARA failed to disclose to Committee Republicans or the American public that President Biden — after serving as Vice President — stored highly classified documents in a closet at his personal office. NARA learned about these documents days before the 2022 midterm elections and did not alert the public that President Biden was potentially violating the law,” Comer wrote the following letter to National Archives