![]() Maybe the American people should have known about it.” And incoming House Judiciary Chair JIM JORDAN (R-Ohio) seized on the timing of the discovery, telling CNN’s Manu Raju: “They knew about this a week before the election. Newly minted House Speaker KEVIN McCARTHY called the situation “very concerning,” per CBS, saying: “He’s had these classified, and what has he said about the other president with classified documents?” He added, according to CNN, “It just shows that they were trying to be political with President Trump.” ![]() A letter to the National Archives and potentially a hearing will follow, he said. Incoming House Oversight Chair JAMES COMER (R-Ky.) bolted out of the gate Monday, calling the situation an example of a “two-tier” standard at the Justice Department and musing to reporters at the Capitol about why agents haven’t yet raided Biden’s homes. ![]() Needless to say, newly empowered Republicans see the circumstances here as a hell of a lot more than inconvenient - seizing on superficial similarities between this discovery and the August search and seizure of more than 100 classified documents from former President DONALD TRUMP’s home in Florida. The Justice Department is investigating how and why classified documents from Biden’s time as veep made their way from the White House to a think tank, the Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement, where he used to have an office.ĬBS’ Adriana Diaz, Andres Triay and Arden Farhi scooped the news last night, and White House special counsel RICHARD SAUBER confirmed the November discovery and subsequent federal probe, noting in a statement that Biden’s “personal attorneys have cooperated with the Archives and the Department of Justice in a process to ensure that any Obama-Biden Administration records are appropriately in the possession of the Archives.” WHAT’S UP, DOCS? - For President JOE BIDEN, it was an inconvenient discovery - and the potential source of considerable future political, if not legal, heartburn. President Joe Biden arrives to speak in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, Friday, May 13, 2022. ![]()
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