South Carolina Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham sounded off Wednesday following the revelation a Biden-linked office had classified information found in it.
South Carolina Republican reacts to the White House's response to classified documents discovered at the Penn Biden Center on 'The Story.'
"So what I think if you believe a special counsel is necessary to assure the public about the handling of classified documents by Donald Trump, you should apply special counsel to the mishandling of classified documentsPRESSURE BUILDS ON GARLAND TO APPOINT SPECIAL COUNSEL AFTER SECOND BATCH OF CLASSIFIED BIDEN DOCUMENTS FOUNDFailure to do so, Graham said, will damage the republic and reinforce the one-sided media narrative that when Democrats do something Republicans are punished or...
"If there's not a special counsel appointed to find out how this happened with President Biden regarding classified information, there is going to be a lot of angst -- It will hurt the country," he added. Following the raid on his estate last year, Trump also called for what he considered equal application of justice, pointing to how conservative watchdog Judicial Watch was denied by a judge in its attempt to obtain access to audiotapes President Clinton had kept in his sock drawer.
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