Former President Donald Trump said Thursday Joe Biden would be treated with “white gloves” by an establishment special counsel after classified documents were found at his home.
In contrast, he said his case was being handled by a war crimes prosecutor when he used double standards.
“There are two standards of justice in our country: one for people like you and me, and one for the corrupt political class, of which there are many,” he said in a video sourced exclusively from .
Trump has delivered a torrent of ridicule since the White House admitted last week that government documents were first found in a private office used by Biden after his tenure as vice president ended and later at his home in Delaware.
Donald Trump on Thursday said Joe Biden would be treated with “white gloves” by an establishment special prosecutor after classified documents were found at his home.
Even Biden allies have expressed frustration at how the White House’s discovery and missteps in handling the crisis could unhook Trump for his own handling of government documents.
In the two-minute video, Trump confronted the two special counsels, claimed Biden kept documents on the wet floor of his garage, and said Biden did not have the power to release files like he would have as president.
“At the very moment my ultra-secure home in Mar-a-Lago was being raided by the FBI, Joe Biden was harboring classified documents in his China-funded Penn Center and unsecured garage … right on the floor, piles of papers.
“The floor was probably very wet and damp, as is the case in many garages
“But while I’m being stalked by Trump, who hates special counsel, I call her special counsel, but this one in particular is a prosecutor and a Trump-disturbed person.
“They are prosecuting all sorts of things that he was prosecuting, war crimes and war criminals.
“Joe Biden, meanwhile, is treated with white gloves by an establishment hack who tried to cover up the Russia hoax.”
Trump is being investigated by Jack Smith (left), a war crimes prosecutor, while Robert Hur, who left the Justice Department to practice privately, was appointed special counsel last week to investigate Joe Biden’s handling of government papers
How the government documents scandal has played out since secret records were found in Biden’s office at the Penn Biden Center on Nov. 2
Biden has ignored questions about the scandal all week while the White House stumbles over explaining who knew what and when about documents found in his office and at his home
Timeline of discovery of Biden documents and initial investigation
November 2: At the Penn Biden Center, a think tank in Washington, DC, ten classified documents were found by President Joe Biden’s attorneys.
Nov 3: The National Archives were notified of the discovery
November 4: The Office of the Inspector General of the National Archives contacted a Justice Department prosecutor and informed him that classified material had been discovered at the Penn Biden Center. The documents were secured in an archive facility
November 8: 2022 midterm elections
Nov 9: The FBI began an evaluation to determine if classified material had been mishandled
November 14: Attorney General Merrick Garland hired US Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois John Lausch to determine whether a special counsel was needed
12/20: The President’s personal attorney tells Lausch that more classified documents were found in Biden’s garage in Wilmington, Delaware. The FBI secured these documents
January 5: Lausch advised Garland to appoint a special counsel
Jan. 9: The White House announces publicly classified documents from Biden’s time as vice president found in the office of his DC think tank
January 12: The President’s personal attorney informed Lausch that another document had been discovered at Biden’s Wilmington home
Jan. 12: The White House publicly announces that more classified documents have been found at Biden’s Wilmington home
Jan. 12: White House Attorney Richard Richard Sauber travels to Biden’s home in Wilmington – finds five other classified documents
January 14: The White House releases the documents found by Sauber
Before being appointed special counsel to investigate Trump’s handling of documents, Jack Smith was chief prosecutor at an international tribunal investigating the Kosovo war.
Conservatives were quick to pick up on the fact that his wife, Katy Chevingy, is listed on IMDb as a producer for Michelle Obama’s 2020 documentary Becoming
Robert Hur, who was hired to investigate Biden last week, is a partner in a Washington law firm after serving as the United States Attorney for the District of Maryland.
He was reportedly working at the Justice Department on Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election.
“It’s a travesty that Biden lied to the American people and armed the Justice Department, or what I call the Department of Injustice – to prosecute me for the crime he actually committed.”
And he wasn’t president. So he didn’t have the right to declassify like I did.
“The difference is that although I did everything right, I didn’t do anything wrong. Biden got it all wrong.
“The box hoax should be dropped immediately against President Trump.
While sections of the media have suggested that Biden’s mistake is less serious than Trump’s, which prompted an FBI raid on his home and the recovery of thousands of files compared to a handful in Biden’s case, the White House intends to do so difficult questions asked about who knew what and when.
According to the White House, the first discovery was made on Nov. 2 at the Penn Biden Center for Global Diplomacy and Engagement in Washington.
But Biden and the White House, who have vowed to “return transparency and truth to the administration,” only acknowledged the find last week after CBS News reported details.
And his press secretary was caught last week insisting six times during a briefing that the search for documents would be complete by Wednesday night, before it was revealed more files were found a day later.
As recently as Saturday, the White House announced that classified documents had been discovered on four separate occasions: on November 2 in the offices of the Penn Biden Center, on December 20 in the garage of the President’s home in Wilmington, Delaware, and so on November 11 and 12 in the President’s home library.
The result is that the daily White House briefing is dominated by questions about schedules.
Almost all are confronted with reporters who are told to question the Justice Department of the White House Office of Legal Advisors.