Opinion by Jennifer Rubin: Allowing politics to color the Trump investigation would be a miscarriage of justice.
of special counsel Robert K. Hur to investigate how classified documents wound up at President Biden’s office at the Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement and at his Delaware home has sparked speculation that the Justice Department is now less likely to pursue charges against former president Donald Trump for his willful retention of classified documents.This is wrong — or at least, it should be.
Second, the lawyers neglected the political implications of their conduct in favor of trying to placate the Justice Department. The lawyers seem to have imagined that they could clear everything up before it became public. That was a naive assumption in today’s political climate.In fact, there is no indication that Biden’s team could have done anything to avoid the appointment of a special counsel.
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