Some right-wingers are convinced that the scandal over classified documents found by President Joe Biden's lawyers at several locations is actually part of a Democratic plot to damage the president's 2024 hopes.
Attorney General Merrick Garland on Thursday named former Trump-appointed U.S. Attorney Robert Hur as special counsel to oversee the probe into classified documents found at Biden's former private office and at his Delaware home. Biden told reporters he is cooperating fully with the DOJ and the White House said it is confident that the investigation will show that the documents were "inadvertently misplaced." Unlike former President Donald Trump, whose attorneys claimed to the DOJ that he had returned all of the classified documents at Mar-a-Lago before an FBI search turned up another trove of classified materials, Biden's lawyers immediately turned over the found documents to authorities.
