QUOTES-Reactions to charges against Donald Trump in classified documents case

Court documents made public on Friday detailed 37 criminal counts against former U.S. President Donald Trump, including charges of unauthorized retention of classified documents and conspiracy to obstruct justice after he left the White House in 2021.

Court documents made public on Friday detailed 37 criminal counts against former U.S. President Donald Trump, including charges of unauthorized retention of classified documents and conspiracy to obstruct justice after he left the White House in 2021. Following are some reactions to the news:

*President Joe Biden Asked if he had spoken to U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland soon after the indictment against Trump was unsealed, Biden said: "I have not spoken to him at all and I’m not going to."

*Senator John Barrasso, chairman of the Senate Republican Conference “This indictment certainly looks like an unequal application of justice. ... Large amounts of classified materials were found in President Biden’s garage in Delaware. No indictment. Hillary Clinton had a computer server in her house with classified documents. No indictment. ... You can’t help but ask why this is happening. It feels political, and it’s rotten.”

*Georgetown University law professor Todd Huntley "Between surveillance video footage, text messages and this audio recording, they have very strong evidence of the willful and intentional retention of those documents." (Compiled by Reuters; editing by Jonathan Oatis)