“I have never once, not one single time, suggested to the Justice Department what they should do or not do relative to bringing a charge or not bringing a charge,” President Biden said at joint news conference Thursday.
, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol — a collection of inquiries that includes Trump-focused fundraising after the 2020 presidential election and efforts to stop the official confirmation of Biden’s victory.
Trump’s advisers say they are preparing for a potential indictment of the former president, who has denied any wrongdoing. Trump has also claimed, without evidence, that the Justice Department has been weaponized against him.On Wednesday, he posted on social media: “No one has told me I’m being indicted, and I shouldn’t be because I’ve done NOTHING wrong, but I have assumed for years that I am a Target of the WEAPONIZED DOJ & FBI.
The Justice Department launched its investigation after officials at the National Archives found more than 100 classified documents scattered among the various items Trump sent back from his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida. After further questioning about whether Trump had more classified papers there, his legal team handed over an additional 38 documents last June in response to a grand jury subpoena.
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