John Lausch, the Trump-appointed U.S. Attorney now tasked with investigating classified documents at the Penn Biden Center, was nearly fired by President Biden in 2021.
House Democratic Caucus Chair Pete Aguilar was asked multiple times Tuesday about whether President Biden should have disclosed that classified documents were found at his think tank office before the midterms.will be leading the investigation of classified documents found at the University of Pennsylvania’s Penn Biden Center, nearly two years after President Biden nearly fired him.
Lausch has been in office since 2017 when he was appointed by then-President Donald Trump. When Biden took office in early 2021, it was reported that the president had plans to fire him, even though the Senate had confirmed him unanimously. The news of the planned termination drew criticism from both parties, as both Democratic Illinois Senators Dick Durbin and Tammy Duckworth expressed their dismay.criminal justice agenda, we are disappointed with the decision to terminate U.S.
Durbin and Duckworth added that there was precedent for individuals in Lausch’s position to stay in office after a new administration took over"to conclude sensitive investigations." They urged Biden to at least let Lausch stay on until a replacement was confirmed.U.S. Attorney John Lausch. Illinois Republican Reps. Darin LaHood, Mary Miller, and Rodney Davis issued a similar statement at the time, noting that Lausch had been in the middle of"pursuing a historic and major public corruption investigation involving a years-long bribery scheme that has implicated former House Speaker Michael Madigan and others.
Now, Lausch will lead the investigation of the documents at the Penn Biden Center -- some of which were marked classified – that were dated from Biden’s time as vice president. Lawyers for the president said they immediately notified the National Archives about the documents once they had been discovered, and returned them to the National Archives in November.
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