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 )
@volkris The appointment was probably just to deflect repub criticism; as only repubs suspect any intent. Now they have nothing to complain about until the investigation is complete, which will probably find no evidence of any wrongdoing, other than shoddy handling of the documents.
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.
