House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) is strongly opposing the indictment of President Trump, claiming that the Department of Justice (DOJ) has displayed a lack of consistency in their treatment of the former president, contradicting the principle of equal justice.
During a press conference, McCarthy expressed his frustration with the indictment, stating, “They treated President Trump differently than they treat others. And it didn’t have to be this way. This is going to disrupt this nation because it goes to the core of equal justice for all, which is not being seen today, and we are not going to stand for it.”
“This is a very dark day in America when you think about what they’re trying to indict President Trump on,” McCarthy told Fox News Digital in an interview. “You’ve got a sitting president right now in the exact same situation. You have a former first lady, senator, secretary of state, that had the same situation that nothing was done to.”
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Undeterred, McCarthy stands firm in his determination to challenge the indictment and promises to utilize all the legal and legislative resources at his disposal to support President Trump.
“In America, some of our greatest strength is equal justice, and today it shows that it is not,” McCarthy said. “But what’s even worse upon this — this is a leading contender to run for office with an administration of a current president that has the exact same documents. Even worse from the aspect there are documents that President Biden has that he had when he was a senator.”
“I know from being part of the Gang of Eight,” McCarthy explained, “you do not remove any documents from the SCIF. How does he even have the possibility of a document from the Senate?”
Between November 2022 and January 2023, a collection of classified documents associated with Joe Biden was uncovered at different sites, including the Penn Biden Center and his residences in Delaware. These documents, which spanned Biden’s time as a senator and vice president, contained classified details pertaining to Ukraine, Iran, and the UK.
“You’ve got to treat people equally,” McCarthy explained. “What’s going to be very concerning here — I’ve already talked to Chairman Comer and Chairman Jim Jordan of things that we can do to ensure equal justice — but there’s something interesting in some of our investigations we just had earlier this week, a retired FBI agent that was a part of the investigation here.”
The FBI conducted searches of President Joe Biden’s residences and the University of Delaware as part of their investigation but did not discover any additional classified documents. U.S. Attorney John R. Lausch Jr. and Special Counsel Robert K. Hur have been assigned to investigate the matter regarding the “possible unauthorized removal and retention of classified documents.”
In addition, the House Judiciary Committee has initiated its own investigation into the incident. These developments have complicated the process of transferring Biden’s documents to the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA). Initially, the documents were stored at a temporary facility but have since been relocated to the Penn Biden Center.
“When you learn, and I think Jim Jordan is going to bring it out tonight, when you learn of some of the things that he had said of how this investigation was carried out, you’ll see then that this judgment is wrong by this DOJ, that they treated President Trump differently than they treat others, and it didn’t have to be this way,” McCarthy concluded.
