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After news broke Wednesday that a second batch of classified documents was found in President Joe Biden’s possession, top Republicans again called on law enforcement agencies to act.
The first batch were discovered in an office in Biden’s Washington-based think tank, and the location of the second has not been disclosed.
Both sets were said to be in his possession before he was elected president, and did not have the sweeping power over state secrets he now wields.
Supporters of former President Donald Trump say Biden is getting more lenient treatment than Trump, whose Mar-a-Lago home was searched by FBI agents in search of classified documents he kept after leaving office.
Trump has seized on the news about Biden, calling on the FBI to do the same to Biden’s homes. Congressional allies including South Carolina Sen. Lindsay Graham called on the Justice Department to appoint a special counsel to handle the case, as exists with the Trump documents.
«When’s the raid?? They’ve had months to track this stuff down. Where is the special counsel? Where’s the wall to wall media coverage asking why Biden and Garland have not already been forced to recuse themselves???» tweeted Trump’s son, Donald Trump Jr.
Trump allies have long accused the FBI and «deep state» federal government officials of harboring an anti-Trump animus, and are using the discovery of the documents in Biden’s office to fuel that narrative.
