Cotton blasts DOJ’s ‘blatant double standard’ for charging Trump but not Biden

Published February 11, 2024 3:38pm ET



Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) expressed harsh criticism of the U.S. Department of Justice for its “blatant double standard” in pressing charges against former President Donald Trump for his handling of classified documents in the wake of special counsel Robert Hur’s report.

The report, released this past week, stated that President Joe Biden would present himself as a “well-meaning elderly man with a poor memory” if he were to stand trial for his handling of classified documents, with the report suggesting it would be difficult to convince a jury to convict him because of this. This statement comes in the wake of Trump being charged with 37 charges last year related to storing classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida, even though it has also been discovered that Biden had kept classified documents in the garage of his Delaware home.

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