House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) blasted President Joe Biden and the Department of Justice on Tuesday for its targeting of former President Donald Trump and his alleged mishandling of classified documents.
McCarthy questioned how it was possible that the president had classified documents from his time as a Senator when those documents should be held in a sensitive compartmented information facility, or SCIF.
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"Has anyone ever asked the current president why would he have a classified document outside of the SCIF from his Senate days? Has he ever been confronted with that question?" McCarthy asked in a tweet, which included video footage of him talking about the president's classified document scandal.
Has anyone ever asked the current president why would he have a classified document outside of the SCIF from his Senate days? Has he ever been confronted with that question? pic.twitter.com/kj6UOT2d4D
— Kevin McCarthy (@SpeakerMcCarthy) June 13, 2023
"I haven't had you ask me one question about the current president having classified documents. I haven't had you ask me one question about why the current president as a senator would even have a classified document. Does that not raise any questions to you?" McCarthy asked reporters in the video. "I've always said equal justice. So my question back to you is: 'Is it equal or fair?' Has anyone ever asked the president, 'Why would you even have a classified document as a senator outside of the SCIF?'?"
A SCIF is an ultrasecure room that does not allow technology. It is used by officials and government contractors to review highly classified documents and information.
Earlier this week, McCarthy tore into the Justice Department for not being transparent in its investigations into both Biden and Trump. McCarthy alleged that the department was being "weaponized" to target a leading opponent to the president ahead of the 2024 elections.
"We have a sitting president who possessed classified documents dating back decades to his time as Vice President and as a Senator," McCarthy tweeted. "Yet he is now weaponizing the federal government to go after his leading political opponent. Where is the equal justice under the law?"
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Trump was indicted by a Florida grand jury last week on charges related to the classified documents found at his Mar-a-Lago resort last year. He was arraigned in a federal court in Miami on Tuesday, where he pleaded not guilty to all 37 charges.
Classified documents were also found at the Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement last November from Biden's time as vice president to Barack Obama. However, no charges have been brought against the president.