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McCarthy dodges Trump indictment questions by pointing finger at Biden

2023-07-31 00:00:00.0 独立报-美国政治原网页

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House Speaker Kevin McCarthy avoided answering questions about the additional charges filed in the superseding indictment against former President Donald Trump and instead redirected the conversation to President Joe Biden.

“What concerns me is you have a sitting president that has a situation like this, but even worse, that had documents, but nothing’s happened,” Mr McCarthy told a CNN reporter.

He continued, turning to President Biden’s time in Congress: “The president, when he was a senator, he took a document. How many years is that and there’s been no prosecution?”

The House speaker was referring to the Biden classified documents, some of which were dated to the president’s time in the Senate, Mr Biden’s lawyer said in January.

According to CNN, the California Republican added, “This is why everybody sits back and says, ‘What are these two, two tiers of justice right?’ And then you look, anything when it comes to the Biden Inc. family, they get a whole different treatment.”

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Unlike Mr Trump, whose “refusal to return” his trove of classified documents, according to the federal indictment against him, the White House said Mr Biden was “cooperating fully” with the National Archives in January in handing over the documents he had possessed.

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