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From the moment the discovery of classified documents in an office that Joe Biden used on a recurring basis after his departure as vice president and later three more packages were found, a group of Republicans have indicated that the president of the United States He’s not getting the same treatment former President Donald Trump gotwhich led the attorney general merrick garland has overthrown such comments.
“The department has a set of standards and practices”mentioned Merrick Garland about the investigation that falls on the shoulders of Joe Biden “this means, among other things, that we do not have different rules for Democrats or Republicans, different rules for the powerful or without power, different rules for the rich or the poor ”.
On how he would respond to those who believe that Biden is getting a better deal than Trump said “we apply the facts and the law in each case in a neutral and nonpartisan manner. This is what we always do and that is what we do in the matters you refer to.”
Merrick Garland’s clarification came during the meeting of the working group on reproductive rights of the Department of Justice, DOJ.
He also spoke about the appointment of Robert Hur as Special Counsel for Joe Biden Y Jack Smith in the case of Donald Trump “The role of the Department of Justice is to apply the facts and the law in each case in an impartial and neutral manner regardless of who the subjects are. That is what we have done in each of these cases and what we will continue to do.”
On August 8 of last year, a group of Federal agents recovered more than 100 classified files during an FBI raid on Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home in Florida. Compared, the Justice Department decided not to have FBI agents police an initial search of classified documents carried out by Biden’s lawyers who from day one cooperated with the investigation.