Fox News
Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) despite his accomplished legal background, seemed to have a hard time Thursday wrapping his head around the news that a third defendant had been added to a case connected to former President Donald Trump’s alleged mishandling of classified documents at his Florida estate, Mar-a-Lago.
The Justice Department added Mar-a-Lago property manager Carlos De Oliveira as yet another defendant in the case—though Hawley falsely characterized the move as Special Counsel Jack Smith “charging random people.”
Fox News host Laura Ingraham asked Hawley about a “two-tiered system of justice,” which she claimed was evidenced by a plea deal nearly given to first son Hunter Biden for tax and gun crimes. She then pointed to the fact that “they just keep on piling on Trump from every corner”—an apparent reference to the former president being hit Thursday with an additional charge for willful retention of national defense information and two more obstruction counts.