A government watchdog group on Tuesday filed an ethics complaint, claiming that President Joe Biden misused taxpayer-funded resources by using White House lawyers to address his own legal crisis.
In the complaint sent to the U.S. Office of Government Ethics, Protect the Public’s Trust (PPT) took issue with the involvement of the White House Counsel’s Office in the ongoing fallout from Biden’s alleged improper handling of classified documents.
“The White House Counsel’s Office is not the President’s personal law firm. It does not represent the President in purely personal matters that are separate from his role as President,” argued the PPT, which describes itself as a group of former public servants dedicated to monitoring conflicts of interests and illegal behavior across the government….