A series of Republicans joined calls Wednesday for the Justice Department to appoint a special counsel to investigate President Biden's handling of classified documents.
"Special counsel," Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., tweeted in response to the report Wednesday.
"The double standard here is astounding. The underlying behavior at issue—a President’s retention of old classified documents dating back to a past presidency—is materially the same in both cases," Hawley wrote."But in President Trump’s case, that retention triggered an unprecedented raid on the home of a former president, rationalized with a thicket of partisan doublespeak.""President Biden has not experienced anything remotely similar," Hawley continued.
Like Hawley, John Fishwick Jr., a former U.S. attorney for the Western District of Virginia who was appointed by former President Barack Obama, told The New York Times earlier this week that Garland should appoint a special counsel to investigate Biden to ensure transparency in the case. Fishwick Jr. added that Garland had waited too long to inform the public about the investigation into the president.
Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., wrote a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland on Wednesday, demanding a special counsel be appointed to investigate Biden's handling of classified documents.
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