Republican legislators have promised to “follow the truth where it leads” at the upcoming hearing on the “weaponization” of the federal government. At the same time, Democrats insist that the Committee will ” go after every conspiracy theory out there.”
In August, the Democrats made a show of weaponizing the Department of Justice, making a production over the search for classified documents in Trump’s house in Florida. Allegedly obtaining roughly 300 documents. Still pending are the potential criminal charges and threats that have not abated to date.
On Friday, the Justice Department took additional sensitive documents from President Biden’s Wilmington, Delaware residence during a search performed on Friday.
An investigation of the residence was conducted by the Justice Department beginning at 9:45 a.m. on Friday and concluding at 10:30 p.m. on Friday night. The search included “all working, living, and storage rooms in the property,” according to Biden’s attorney, Bob Bauer.
An ex-F.B.I. assistant director had harsh words for the agency for the definite differences in how it conducted the cases of President Biden and former President Donald Trump and their handling of secret information.
Documents discovered in President Joe Biden’s private office included “top secret” information. A federal law enforcement official told the source that the ten classified documents already reported to have been discovered from Biden’s vice presidential office at the Penn Biden Center in Washington, D.C., included top-secret material, but the story did not reveal their precise contents.
On Thursday, Attorney General Merrick Garland named Robert Hur as a special counsel to examine the finding of classified materials that may have been mismanaged after President Biden’s stint as vice president.
Former President Donald Trump replied to the unanimous vote of a committee on January 6 to refer criminal charges against him. Monday, the committee recommended that the Department of Justice indict former President Trump on four charges of attempting to overturn the 2020 presidential election results.
The Justice Department recently asked U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell to hold Trump’s legal team in contempt of court. The DOJ lawyers who made the request departed the session without saying whether or not the judge had granted their motion. On Friday, no contempt order was released by the court. However, that does not mean that the Judge did not grant the motion or that Trump’s legal team is out of the danger zone. At this point, it is unknown if the Judge ruled on the matter or deferred it.
The Manhattan District Attorney’s office is renewing its criminal investigation into Trump’s alleged hush money to adult film actress Stephanie Clifford, more commonly known as Stormy Daniels. Trump has been accused of making ‘hush money’ to Daniels to quiet her over their alleged romance.
According to Sen. Ted Cruz, the Biden administration politicized and armed the Justice Department, making the appointment of the special counsel to investigate former President Donald Trump reprehensible.