Attorney General Merrick Garland’s investigation into Trump’s mishandling of records at Mar-a-Lago has been upended again—this time, by his own boss.
The challenge of prosecuting former President Donald Trump for the mishandling of confidential documents has loomed over the Department of Justice since its investigation began. The possibility of indictment will be even trickier for prosecutors to navigate now that President Joe Biden is facing his own scandal of a similar nature.
On Monday, the White House revealed that the DOJ and the National Archives and Records Administration are reviewing the circumstance surrounding a “small number” of Obama-era government documents that were found in a locked closet of an office used by Biden from 2017 to 2020—after his time as vice president and before he announced his candidacy for president.
The discovery comes just six months after Trump’s home in Florida was raided by FBI agents, who seized dozens of boxes containing presidential records from Mar-a-Lago.
