I'm a bit surprised that the discovery of #Biden's classified document mishandling didn't get as much international mention as #Trump's.
It seems like the appointment of a special council to investigate a sitting president by his own Department of Justice, especially with all of the rhetoric around Trump, would have given that news extra impact.
Ah, well. #Journalism .
(And #USPolitics )
@ambihelical
The appointment was following well-established procedures that just make common sense: there is an inherent conflict of interest when the DOJ is investigating their boss.
In the US system it's effectively the president investigating himself.
So the US has developed the idea of special councils to at least try to have some independence when an investigation is deemed substantial.
It **should** be Congress doing the investigating, though, as that's why it has independent branches of government providing oversight in the first place.