EXCLUSIVE – Former Attorney General William Barr said it’s “even more critical” that the Department of Justice release a document alleging a criminal bribery scheme involving President Biden after a plea deal between prosecutors and the president's son, Hunter.
The Justice Department announced on Tuesday that Hunter Biden will plead guilty to two misdemeanor counts of willful failure to pay federal income tax. The younger Biden also agreed to enter into a pretrial diversion agreement regarding a separate charge of possession of a firearm by a person who is an unlawful user of or addicted to a controlled substance.
Barr said the DOJ should cooperate with House Republicans demanding that the FBI release the FD-1023 form – providing necessary steps are taken to protect the life and safety of the confidential human source in the document.
In an exclusive interview Monday, Barr told Fox News Digital that Special Counsel Jack Smith’s unprecedented indictment of former President Donald Trump for his mishandling of classified documents “understandably sparked ire over a double standard.”
“I think AG Garland should move quickly with concrete steps to address it,” Barr said.
“The public needs to be assured that the two pending investigations about the Bidens – the one about mishandling of classified material and the broader one in Delaware – are being pursued with the same rigor as the case against Trump,” Barr told Fox News Digital.