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Comer: ‘Double Standard’ in DOJ Handling of Trump and Biden on Classified Documents
Breitbart ^ | 15 Jan 2023 | PAM KEY

Posted on 01/15/2023 10:11:35 AM PST by SoConPubbie

Representative James Comer (R-KY) said Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union” that because more classified documents have been found in President Joe Biden’s home, there seems to be a “double standard” between how the Department of Justice is handling his case and that of former President Donald Trump.

Comer said, “My concern is that special counsel was called for, but yet hours of that we still had the president’s personal attorneys who have no security clearance still rummaging around the president’s residence looking for things. That would essentially be a crime scene, so to speak, after the appointment of a special counsel. So we have a lot of questions for the National Archives. We have a lot of questions for the Department of Justice, and hopefully, we’ll be getting answers very soon.”

He continued, “We just want equal treatment here with respect to how both former President Trump and current President Biden are being treated with the document issue.”

Comer added, “The fact that they were quick to call for special counsel with Trump, it seems political here. It seems hypocritical. It seems like a double standard. That’s our concern. I have jurisdiction as chairman of the House Oversight Committee over the National Archives. This is the agency I’m most frustrated with because they have not been transparent at all. They should be briefing myself and ranking member Raskin who will be your next guest on the show, about what’s going on here. They never did tell us about November 2nd. We asked questions about what went on with Mar-a-Lago. Why was Mar-a-Lago raided but the president’s home not? Why are the president’s lawyers still allowed to rummage through looking for documents after a special counsel has been appointed?

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: trump

"It doesn’t make sense. It’s not fair. We just want equal treatment."

1 posted on 01/15/2023 10:11:35 AM PST by SoConPubbie
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To: SoConPubbie

yup- i had posted the following in another thread- says basically the same thing

-—Trump, who was authorized to declassified and take documents, and who had every right to take them, was raided in a big show of force by the fbi for th3 media tO exploit.

Biden, who was not authorized to take documents, nor to declassify them, took many classified documents, and stored them insecurely, and authorities could hardly care any less, and will do everything they can, with their special investigator, to cover it up and sweep it under the rug.

Nope, no two-tiered justice system here. Nothing to see, move right along!


2 posted on 01/15/2023 10:14:22 AM PST by Bob434
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To: SoConPubbie

What a sick farce our once great Republic has become.


3 posted on 01/15/2023 10:15:19 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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To: BenLurkin

The Forces of Evil have certainly prevailed with much success the last decade-


4 posted on 01/15/2023 10:16:36 AM PST by Bob434
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To: SoConPubbie

It isn’t about being fair. It’s about applying the law. Trump, as a former POTUS, was allowed to have classified documents in a locked location. Biden, as a former VPOTUS, was not allowed to have classified document, let alone in numerous unsecured locations.


5 posted on 01/15/2023 10:16:40 AM PST by CatOwner (Don't expect anyone, even conservatives, to have your back when the SHTF in 2021 and beyond.)
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To: SoConPubbie

Biden’s personal lawyers should immediately be arrested and tried for espionage, found guilty, and hanged.


6 posted on 01/15/2023 10:24:23 AM PST by ConservativeInPA (Stupidly is a moral problem, not an intellectual problem. )
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To: BenLurkin

Our government is under enemy occupation as far as I’m concerned.


7 posted on 01/15/2023 10:25:16 AM PST by GrandJediMasterYoda (As long as Hillary Clinton remains free, the USA will never have equal justice under the law)
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To: ConservativeInPA

“Biden’s personal lawyers should immediately be arrested and tried for espionage, found guilty, and hanged“

- This would be the case - in any sane world..


8 posted on 01/15/2023 10:30:42 AM PST by joethedrummer (We can't vote our way out of this, folks..)
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To: ConservativeInPA

SPJNK.


9 posted on 01/15/2023 10:51:19 AM PST by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: SoConPubbie

Biden and Dems don’t care. They know it is one party rule with spineless Republicans as the opposition party.


10 posted on 01/15/2023 11:39:49 AM PST by Kaiser8408a (z)
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To: joethedrummer

“Biden’s personal lawyers should immediately be arrested and tried for espionage, found guilty, and hanged“

“”””””””””

Those aren’t lawyers, thems the cleaning crew. ;>)


11 posted on 01/15/2023 2:33:39 PM PST by patriot torch
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To: Bob434

That is the true felony that no one is talking about as far as Biden’s investigation!😠

Theft of government documents, (classified or non classified) from federal property!

The lie that it was Biden’s own papers .. doesn’t wash, it is B.S.

If documents are written on government equipment .. they are government property!


12 posted on 01/15/2023 3:35:20 PM PST by justme4now (Falsehood flies, and the Truth comes limping after it)
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To: CatOwner
It isn’t about being fair. It’s about applying the law. Trump, as a former POTUS, was allowed to have classified documents in a locked location. Biden, as a former VPOTUS, was not allowed to have classified document...

President Trump, as a Republican, was not allowed to have his lawyers present when the FBI search his house.

Biden, as a Democrat, was allowed to have his lawyers actually perform the search of his house.

-PJ

13 posted on 01/15/2023 3:40:08 PM PST by Political Junkie Too ( * LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))
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To: justme4now

I agree- Flipped over to fox news just for the heck of it today and those scum on there were comparing Trump to Biden, making trump out to look like a crook, while giving biden a pass practically- There were 3 on the panel, and they all basically repeated the same lying nonsense- Fox news is totally gone over to the dark side i guess- At least newsmax was defending Trump by stating the truth, that he had the right to declassify them and take them whereas biden did not-


14 posted on 01/15/2023 8:57:56 PM PST by Bob434
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