Senate Judiciary Committee member Lindsey Graham said Wednesday it will “hurt the country” if Attorney General Merrick Garland does not take swift, equitable action in light of classified documents being found in a University of Pennsylvania-linked office previously used by President Biden.
Graham told Fox News a special counsel should be promptly appointed to investigate the matter with the same tenacity that Garland sought to probe President Donald Trump following the discovery of classified material at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach. Following Graham’s interview, Fox News confirmed that aides to Biden discovered at least one more batch of classified documents from his time as vice president in Biden’s possession.
Reacting to what he called a ridiculous response by White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre to Fox News’ Peter Doocy’s questions, the South Carolina senator said many Americans are “disgusted with the standard that exists in America when it comes to conservatives and everybody else.”
“So what I think if you believe a special counsel is necessary to assure the public about the handling of classified documents by Donald Trump, you should apply special counsel to the mishandling of classified documents by President Biden when he was vice president,” he said.
Failure to do so, Graham said, will damage the republic and reinforce the one-sided media narrative that when Democrats do something Republicans are punished or investigated for, it is acceptable.
