On Monday, former president Donald Trump pledged to name a special prosecutor to investigate President Joe Biden if he were to reclaim the presidency in 2024.
The announcement comes a day before Trump is due to appear in a Miami federal courtroom for his arraignment on 37 charges related to the special counsel Jack Smith's investigation into Trump's alleged improper handling of sensitive data.
"NOW THAT THE "SEAL" IS BROKEN, IN ADDITION TO CLOSING THE BORDER & REMOVING ALL OF THE "CRIMINAL" ELEMENTS THAT HAVE ILLEGALLY INVADED OUR COUNTRY, MAKING AMERICA ENERGY INDEPENDENT, & EVEN DOMINANT AGAIN, & IMMEDIATELY ENDING THE WAR BETWEEN RUSSIA & UKRA On Truth Social, Trump said.
Trump has been under federal legal investigation for about a year, and in August 2022, the FBI searched his Mar-a-Lago resort in search of records he could have taken from the White House. Trump willingly complied with a grand jury subpoena before the raid and turned over materials to the authorities.
Due to his suspected improper handling of sensitive information, Biden is the subject of his own inquiry. After news broke that a Biden attorney had found secret files while cleaning up the former Vice President's office at the Penn Biden Centre in Washington in November, Attorney General Merrick Garland ordered special counsel Robert Hur to look into the situation. Biden's Delaware home's garage and an office in Chinatown were among the locations searched later that yielded additional sensitive items. There are no active charges against Biden as a result of Hur's probe.
Information about the UK, Iran, and Ukraine is apparently among the papers found at the Penn Biden Centre.
The apparent discrepancy in the Justice Department's treatment of the two former presidents over a similar alleged offence has been a major point of contention for Trump and his Republican allies. Notably, the FBI never conducted a raid on any of Biden's residences or workplaces.
The former president has further argued that the president has extensive jurisdiction to declassify documents and maintains that the Presidential Records Act gave him the right to keep the documents at his home. Since Biden was not the president when the records in his hands would have been released from government control, such a defence would not hold water in his case.
The announcement comes a day before Trump is due to appear in a Miami federal courtroom for his arraignment on 37 charges related to the special counsel Jack Smith's investigation into Trump's alleged improper handling of sensitive data.
"NOW THAT THE "SEAL" IS BROKEN, IN ADDITION TO CLOSING THE BORDER & REMOVING ALL OF THE "CRIMINAL" ELEMENTS THAT HAVE ILLEGALLY INVADED OUR COUNTRY, MAKING AMERICA ENERGY INDEPENDENT, & EVEN DOMINANT AGAIN, & IMMEDIATELY ENDING THE WAR BETWEEN RUSSIA & UKRA On Truth Social, Trump said.
Trump has been under federal legal investigation for about a year, and in August 2022, the FBI searched his Mar-a-Lago resort in search of records he could have taken from the White House. Trump willingly complied with a grand jury subpoena before the raid and turned over materials to the authorities.
Due to his suspected improper handling of sensitive information, Biden is the subject of his own inquiry. After news broke that a Biden attorney had found secret files while cleaning up the former Vice President's office at the Penn Biden Centre in Washington in November, Attorney General Merrick Garland ordered special counsel Robert Hur to look into the situation. Biden's Delaware home's garage and an office in Chinatown were among the locations searched later that yielded additional sensitive items. There are no active charges against Biden as a result of Hur's probe.
Information about the UK, Iran, and Ukraine is apparently among the papers found at the Penn Biden Centre.
The apparent discrepancy in the Justice Department's treatment of the two former presidents over a similar alleged offence has been a major point of contention for Trump and his Republican allies. Notably, the FBI never conducted a raid on any of Biden's residences or workplaces.
The former president has further argued that the president has extensive jurisdiction to declassify documents and maintains that the Presidential Records Act gave him the right to keep the documents at his home. Since Biden was not the president when the records in his hands would have been released from government control, such a defence would not hold water in his case.
