Representative James R. Comer, a Kentucky Republican who is likely to become the chairman of the House Oversight Committee, said Monday he will investigate the discovery of classified documents in his office. Biden, vowed to send a request for information within 48 days. hour.
“It’s ironic,” Comer said in an interview. “We now know that Joe Biden has material that is classified as classified. I wonder, is the National Archives going to trigger a raid on the White House tonight? Or of the Biden Center?” He added, “So now we’re going to take the information we requested during the Mar-a-Lago raid and we’re going to expand that to include documents that Joe Biden has.”
By contrast, the top Democrat on the Oversight Committee, Representative Jamie Raskin of Maryland, downplayed the matter, saying he was confident Mr. Garland had taken the appropriate steps to review the circumstances. and that Mr. Biden’s attorneys “appear to have acted immediately”. and take appropriate action” to notify the archives.
According to a person familiar with the situation, department leadership decided to make the unusual choice of moving the case outside the relevant jurisdictions because Lausch is a Republican appointee and the job his will be considered fair.
Mr. Biden kept Mr. Lausch in office at the request of two Democratic senators from Illinois, Richard J. Durbin and Tammy Duckworth, because he was investigating Michael J. Madigan, a former speaker of the Illinois House of Representatives, in the election. presidential transition in 2021. In March, a federal grand jury indicted Mr. Madigan, a Democrat, on 22 counts of fraud and corruption.
A department spokesman had no comment on the matter and did not say whether the national security department, which is leading the investigation into Mr. Trump’s keeping of documents at the residence and resort. in his Florida, relevant or not.
With Mr. Lausch investigating Mr. Biden’s handling of classified information and David Weiss, the US attorney in Delaware, investigating the president’s son, Hunter Biden, both Trump-appointed US attorneys remain at The department is now scrutinizing the Biden family.
Luke Broadwater, Katie Benner and Adam Goldman contribution report.
