Sen. Eric Schmidt, R-Missouri, said Tuesday on Fox News that the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s “two-tiered justice system” was used after admitting to using “deadly force” in the 2022 Mar-a-Lago attack. ‘ was discarded.
Schmidt appeared on “The Ingraham Angle” to talk about his recently released new work. Court filings This indicates that the FBI’s mission guidelines for the August 2022 Mar-a-Lago attack authorized federal agencies to “use deadly force” if necessary. Fox host Laura Ingraham asked Schmidt about his approval of the guidelines, comparing it to the discovery of classified documents found in President Joe Biden’s garage. (RELATED: Trump moves to dismiss classified documents lawsuit citing ‘unconstitutional’ Mar-a-Lago raid, ‘prosecutorial misconduct’)
“So, Laura, if you ever needed any further evidence of two-tiered justice, compare this former president’s authorization of lethal force to the kid gloves he gave to Joe Biden, who kept classified documents from his time in the Senate and the garage Hunter Biden shares being compromised by a foreign government,” Schmidt said. “They handled these things very differently. This is just kind of an illustration of –“
“Well, not only that, Senator, they did a caution — the lawyers were allowed to go, the White House lawyers were allowed to go to the garage and check the lay of the land first, right? So that’s where it went? I mean, deadly force, OK. That’s just legal,” Ingraham interjected.
“It’s crazy,” Schmidt said.
Former President Donald Trump’s private residence contains “classified information,” [National Defense Information], and U.S. government records,” the court filing states. President Trump was not home at the time, but the filing says authorities will carry “ammunition,” “handcuffs,” and “medium and large bolt cutters,” as well as concealed “law enforcement equipment.” He was instructed to do so. ,” according to to the New York Post.
“The FBI followed standard procedures in this investigation, as we do for all search warrants, including standard policy statements limiting the use of lethal force,” the agency responded in a statement, according to the report. “No one ordered us to take any additional steps, and there were no deviations from our protocols in this matter.”
When reports emerged in early 2023 that Biden had stored classified documents from his time as vice president in multiple unsecured locations, Republicans questioned Attorney General Merrick Garland about why he had hidden the reports until after the midterm elections. Biden’s lawyers retrieved the documents from the garage of his Delaware home and the Biden Center in Pennsylvania and turned them over to the Department of Justice.
President Trump has been indicted by Special Counsel Jack Smith for allegedly mishandling classified documents, but it has been announced that President Biden will not be indicted in the investigation led by Special Counsel Robert Hur.
