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Doyle McManus: Biden's documents misstep helps Trump politically — and legally too

Attorney General Merrick Garland arrives to name an independent special counsel to probe President Joe Biden's alleged mishandling of classified documents at the U.S. Justice Department in Washington, D.C., on Jan.12, 2023..

When classified documents turned up in President Joe Biden's former office, his Delaware home and the garage housing his Corvette, the political impact was predictable. Republicans gleefully accused Biden of the same offense that prompted the FBI to raid former President Donald Trump's Florida estate last August.

The newly minted Republican chairmen of two House committees announced of Biden — but not of Trump or former Vice President , who confessed that he too had found classified documents at

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