Former FBI assistant director sees 'glaring disparity' in DOJ's 'kid gloves' treatment of BidenA former FBI assistant director is blasting the bureau for its "glaring disparity" in how the agency has approached the situations surrounding President Biden and former President Donald Trump's handling of classified materials.
"You know, it's kid-gloves, it's going about it in a very nice way, very genteel," Swecker said, noting that the Justice Department is seemingly allowing Biden allies to decide what is looked through and what isn't, as well as what is taken from the properties and what isn't.
Under pressure from Republicans, Attorney General Merrick Garland appointed a special counsel Thursday to investigate the classified materials, which Biden claims were "inadvertently misplaced." Garland tapped Robert Hur, a former U.S. attorney, to handle the investigation.
Asked why the FBI is leaving the search of Biden's Delaware residence for additional classified materials to White House aides, Swecker said there should have already "been an open investigation" and that it reminds him of how the FBI treated former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who was able to avoid charges for her use of a private email server during her tenure.
"I think it's bad for the FBI to go using search warrants to do that sorta thing," he added. "They should subpoena and they should do this in a way that is short of conducting an outright raid. But that's not what they did with Trump – they just raided his Mar-a-Lago residence.… If it's good for Trump, it should have been good for Biden, as well. There is a disparity of how this very identical set of circumstances were handled."
Swecker also said he believes the documents found at Mar-a-Lago were in a much safer spot than those found in Biden's Delaware home, which served as his residence for the time between his role as vice president and president.
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