Joe Biden said he was “cooperating fully and completely” with a Justice Department investigation into how the classified information and other government records were stored.
| US President Joe Biden’s hopes of running again in next year’s election have been dealt a blow, following the appointment of a special counsel by the US Department of Justice to investigate the presence of further classified documents found at the president’s home.
Legal experts now warn that even the presence of classified documents at Biden’s home could prevent him from running for president again, despite his circumstances differing to that of former president Donald Trump’sGeorge Washington University Jonathan Turley noted that the Department of Justice had already said that the mishandling of these documents can most certainly be a crime.
“To bring indictments against these people, you’re talking about the sitting president and the former president, but both of them essentially are candidates in the 2024 election, so this has tremendous ramifications in terms of the politics of 2024 as well,” Mr McCarthy said., a California Republican, said of the latest news: “I think Congress has to investigate this.”
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