Attorney General Merrick Garland pushes back on suggestion Biden has been treated better than Trump in documents probes.
-- who had his home searched by the FBI last August after the government said he repeatedly resisted efforts to hand over all classified records in his possession.
US Attorney General Merrick Garland names an independent special counsel to probe President Joe Biden's alleged mishandling of classified documents at the US Justice Department in Washington, DC on Jan. 12, 2023."We apply the facts and the law in each case in a neutral and nonpartisan manner," Garland said. "That is what we always do, and that is what we do in the matters you are referring to.
"The role of the Justice Department is to apply the facts and the law in each case in a nonpartisan and neutral way without regard to who the subjects are," Garland said. "That is what we have done in each of these cases and what we will continue to do."Trump has denied wrongdoing in his handling of classified materials while out of office and has claimed he is being politically persecuted.
An attorney for Biden said earlier this month that his documents were "inadvertently misplaced" and he moved quickly to address the matter once it was discovered.
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