Reports about former President Donald Trump‘s legal team handing over to prosecutors a laptop belonging to one of his aides has spurred calls for Republicans to hold a new congressional hearing to look into the matter.
Representative Ted Lieu, a California Democrat, said that House Republicans should hold a hearing about the aide’s laptop similar to the one they held this week, which focused on the suppression of a New York Post article that was published in 2020 about Hunter Biden’s laptop.
Since MAGA Republicans are obsessed about laptops, @HouseGOP should do a hearing on the Trump laptop that illegally stored classified information.
Instead, House GOP did a stupid hearing on what Twitter said about a widely known NY Post story about Hunter Biden’s laptop. https://t.co/wkX2am2VSF
— Ted Lieu (@tedlieu) February 11, 2023
Pages with classified markings were found by Trump’s lawyers at his Mar-a-Lago home in Florida and were turned over to the Department of Justice (DOJ). Trump’s unnamed aide, who works for Save America PAC, reportedly made a copy of those same pages and added them to a thumb drive and laptop without realizing they were classified.
“Since House Republicans love to hold hearings over laptops, they should immediately hold a hearing discussing the #TrumpLaptop, said Democratic activist and lawyer Aaron Parnas.
“Trump laptop?????? Dear @Jim_Jordan , Will there be a hearing on the trump laptop?” asked Christopher Gibbs, chair of the nonprofit, Rural Voices USA.
Meanwhile, social media personality Brian Krassenstein tweeted: “‘Accuse your opponent of what you are guilty of…’ For the last 3 years we have been hearing about Hunter Biden’s ‘laptop from hell’. The real laptop from hell could be the #TrumpLaptop in which classified documents were copied onto and found at Mar-a-lago. THAT IS A CRIME!”
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