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Headlines: In the United States, confidential documents embarrass Joe Biden
US President Joe Biden, at the White House in Washington, January 11, 2023. REUTERS - JONATHAN ERNST
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The White House had previously confirmed that classified documents, which dated back to when Joe Biden was Barack Obama's vice president, had been found in one of its former offices.
But the American media revealed this Wednesday, January 11 that additional files were found by collaborators of the president.
Many newspapers in the country therefore recall this sentence from Joe Biden, pronounced on television when the FBI seized confidential documents from Donald Trump's luxurious residence last year: "
How is it possible to be so irresponsible? ?
exclaimed the president.
One by one, a Washington Post
columnist
takes up the arguments of the Democrats against Donald Trump at the time
, and curbs the current president: Joe Biden seems to have, like Donald Trump, broken the law, he notes.
“
How to explain that facts which took place in November are only revealed now?
“, he also wonders.
Not prosecuting Biden, when Trump is already being prosecuted, would be very difficult to justify to Americans, insists the editorialist.
The differences between the Trump and Biden files
Joe Biden immediately transferred the documents to the national archives,
unlike Donald Trump
, who had even more sensitive files and had refused to cooperate with the police, which had led the FBI to the spectacular search of August 8 in the villa of the ex-president, underlines a former judge in
The Hill.
More surprisingly, the
New York Post
, a conservative tabloid, does not insist so much on the wrongs of Joe Biden, but rather attacks a
culture of secrecy that he considers "
excessive
"
within the police and the justice system. federal.
"
Federal agencies classify as confidential more than a trillion pages of documents each year
," chokes its columnist, who considers that they are "
abusing
" their power.
He therefore supports the creation the day before yesterday by the Republicans of a parliamentary commission of inquiry into what they call the “instrumentalization” of federal institutions.
Republican Congressman George Santos refuses to resign
Several deputies have publicly announced that he is not welcome in their meetings, because his lies about his religion or his diplomas risk tarnishing the image of the party, explains
The Hill
.
But House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy does not want him to resign.
His departure would make the timid majority of Republicans in the House of Representatives even more fragile
, underlines the online newspaper.
One more death in protests in Peru
The protest movement continues against interim President Dina Boluarte, and to demand early elections after the impeachment of President Pedro Castillo on December 7, 2022. In the tourist city of Cusco, a protester was killed yesterday.
Several dozen demonstrators and police were injured as protesters tried to invade the airport and the bus station, headlines
El Comercio
.
The demonstrations penalize tourism, also underlines the conservative newspaper of the capital, while further south, in Juliaca, it was meditation yesterday.
The bells rang for the 17 people killed on Monday in protests against the government.
"
All were killed by firearm
," confirmed the prosecution
, as reported by the daily
La Republica
.
The investigation will have to determine if it was indeed shootings of the police, but the anger was also very present in Juliaca.
The crowd, largely made up of members of the indigenous Aymara people, accuses President Dina Boluarte of being responsible too.
An investigation for homicide and genocide has been opened against her and against several ministers by the Peruvian justice.
The crackdown left at least 42 people dead.
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