‘Dark Day for the United States of America,’ McCarthy Criticizes Biden Over DOJ Trump Indictment

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House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) and other top House Republicans have criticized the Biden administration, after former President Donald Trump announced that he had been charged over his handling of classified documents.

“Today is indeed a dark day for the United States of America,” McCarthy wrote on Twitter on June 8, shortly after Trump announced that he had been indicted by special counsel Jack Smith.

“It is unconscionable for a President to indict the leading candidate opposing him. Joe Biden kept classified documents for decades,” McCarthy added. “I, and every American who believes in the rule of law, stand with President Trump against this grave injustice. House Republicans will hold this brazen weaponization of power accountable.”

FBI agents raided Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida in August 2022, seizing over 11,000 documents and photographs without classified markings and around 100 documents marked classified or top secret. However, Trump has said he declassified the materials when he left office.

Attorney General Merrick Garland appointed Smith as special counsel overseeing the Department of Justice’s probes related to Trump in November.

Trump announced on Thursday that he has been summoned to appear at the federal courthouse in Miami at 3 p.m. on June 13.

The Trump campaign said in a statement that the former president “violated no laws and is being held to a different legal standard than other former Presidents and Vice President.”

“Today’s act of open legal ‘warfare’ by the highly politicized and partisan Department of Injustice, has taken things to a new level, and set a dangerous precedent. By politically weaponizing the DOJ, the Biden administration and their henchmen in the Swamp are now conducting an all-out prosecution of the leader of the current administration’s political opposition,” the Trump campaign said. “This is un-American and wrong.”

“President Trump will fight this unconstitutional abuse of power until he is ultimately vindicated.”

By Frank Fang

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