Special prosecutor also for the classified papers found in Joe Biden, as for those of Donald Trump.
We are talking about
Rob Hur
, a former Maryland prosecutor and previously deputy attorney general, appointed by the tycoon.
The announcement was made by attorney general Merrick Garland, who was under increasing pressure after the discovery of
a second tranche of classified papers in the garage of the president's residence
in Wilmington, Delaware, more than two months after the first.
A storm that risks seriously jeopardizing his awaited re
-nomination , with the sword of Damocles of a 'special counsel' while he is in office for another 2 years, as happened to his predecessor with Robert Mueller and Russiagate.
And with the new Republican speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy denouncing "the double standards of a politicized justice", calling for a congressional inquiry, while some committees now controlled by the Grand Old Party have already launched their offensive against Biden and his family , starting with his son Hunter.
Donald Trump also goes on the attack
, even demanding the fire of his special prosecutor Jack Smith, accusing him, his wife and his friends of hating him.
The embarrassing discovery of a second set of classified papers related to Biden's vice presidency (concluded in early 2017) was disclosed by the White House shortly before the president commented on the "good news" of falling inflation at a press conference.
His lawyers, reads a note, discovered "among personal and political papers a small number of other Obama-Biden administration documents with classification marks. All but one were found in a deposit in the garage of the residence of the president" in Wilmington.
"A single page document was discovered among material stored in an adjacent room," while "no document was found in the Rehoboth Beach residence," his beach house.
"We are confident that a thorough examination will show that
the documents were moved in error
and that the president and his lawyers acted promptly upon discovery," the White House said.
The lawyers reiterated that they "fully collaborated" with the Justice Department and informed it immediately, as they did after the discovery of the top secret papers last November 2 in a former Biden office in a Washington think tank.
Position reaffirmed by the president when he was pressed by reporters at the end of the press conference.
“Classified documents near his Corvette?” a Fox reporter poked.
"My Corvette is in a locked garage, okay? It's not like they've been out in the street," he snapped.
The president then revealed that the search for other government documents after those found in November ended yesterday, adding another question on the lengthy times of the investigations.
All the others remain:
how secret and sensitive is the information in those documents?
Why weren't they returned to the National Archives immediately?
Were they properly stored?
Why did the White House wait over two months to reveal the news, well beyond the Midterm elections the week after the first discovery?
And why did the Justice Department promptly make public the seizure of Donald Trump's secret papers complete with photos, instead treating Biden's case differently?
Questions also posed by the Washington Post in an editorial accusing the president of having been equally "irresponsible", an adjective that Biden had used to criticize the tycoon's behavior in the case of the documents found in Mar-a-Lago.
“Prosecuting Trump, but not Hillary Clinton or Biden, for the mishandling of classified documents would be extremely difficult to explain to Americans,” notes the capital newspaper.
Meanwhile, Trump is preparing to open his presidential campaign
with a first public event at the end of January in Columbia, South Carolina, while the possible names for his ticket begin to circulate, all female: the most loyal deputies Elise Stefanik and Marjorie Taylor Greene ( close to QAnon conspiracy theorists), South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem and former Arizona gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake.
But also the collaborator of Fox News and former dem deputy (since 2022 independent) Tulsi Gabbard.