GOP lawmakers express concern about the timing of the reporting and the “double standard.”
In a statement on Saturday, special counsel to the presidentexplained, “The President’s personal attorneys discovered one document with a classified marking consisting of one page in a room adjacent to the garage. At that point, the President’s personal attorneys stopped searching the immediate area where the document was found.”
He added that “five additional pages with classification markings were discovered among the material with it, for a total of six pages. The DOJ officials with me immediately took possession of them. The President’s lawyers have acted immediately and voluntarily to provide the Penn Biden documents to the Archives and the Wilmington documents to DOJ.”, a former Trump-appointed attorney, as special counsel to oversee the matter.
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