Former special counsel in Biden classified documents probe attacked by both sides in hearing * Pennsylvania Capital-Star

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

40% : A separate special counsel, Jack Smith, oversaw the investigation into Trump.
36% : Hur declined to answer questions from Republicans about Smith's decision to recommend charges against Trump.
29% : Trump has made central to his campaign the idea that political and governmental elites -- the so-called deep state that includes the Justice Department -- are unfairly targeting him.
25% : Trump, on the other hand, refused repeated chances to avoid prosecution by returning missing classified material.
20% : And unlike Biden, Trump did not agree to sit for an interview with prosecutors.
18% : "Big day in Congress for the Biden Documents Hoax," Trump wrote.
18% : The federal indictment against Trump also accused him of obstructing the investigation by hiding documents and destroying incriminating video evidence.
11% : The Trump case, one of four felony prosecutions the former president faces even as his general election campaign against Biden approaches, accuses Trump of keeping classified documents unsecured at his Mar-a-Lago estate.
9% : "Donald Trump's being prosecuted for exactly the same act that Joe Biden committed," Rep. Tom McClintock, a Republican of California, told Hur.
9% : Trump is also accused of lying about what documents he still had, Maryland Democrat Jamie Raskin said.
5% : "This report is so damning in the contrast between Biden and Trump, it is hard for me to see why our (Republican) colleagues think that this hearing advances their flailing and embarrassing quest to impeach the president of the United States," Raskin said.

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