Biden was caught off guard by a reporter’s persistence in questioning him about the classified documents scandal that is causing a massive headache for the administration.
In case you have been living under a rock for the past few months and are unaware of the story, Joe Biden is now under federal investigation for taking classified documents with him when he left the office of vice president in 2017.
This is especially troublesome for Biden as his Justice Department was already investigating former President Trump for the exact same thing, meaning that any political clout that Biden could gain from this has evaporated.
On Friday, Biden had an interview with David Muir of ABC, a network that is normally friendly to the Biden administration. However, this time, Muir had some rather tough and awkward questions for the president.
Toward the end of the video below, about the 10:20 mark, Muir asked Biden to confirm that none of the classified documents discovered in Biden’s possession in any way compromised U.S. intelligence. Biden responded that he could not comment because he had been advised by his attorneys to “let the Justice Department make that decision.”
But Muir continued to press saying that many people “saw you, though, comment on former President Trump.” In essence, Muir asked how Biden’s situation was any different from Trump’s.
Biden responded that, unlike Trump, he had invited the Justice Department to search for classified documents, “And the difference is every single solitary thing I’ve been asked to do I’ve done voluntarily. I’ve invited the Justice Department to come into every aspect of any place that I had any control of. There was no need for search warrants, were no need – well what do you need? Just come, whatever you want. Whatever you want, wherever you want to go, you can go. That was totally different.”
Muir then asked Biden about the word he used to describe what Trump did, “irresponsible.” He asked if Biden was acting irresponsibly as well.
Clearly not expecting Muir to keep probing, Biden chided the lifelong journalist, saying, “you’re a good lawyer” and then claimed that what he did was nowhere near as irresponsible as what Trump did.
“The way in which the boxes were packed up from my office, apparently, not everything was gone through as meticulously as it should have. But there was no intention.”
At this point in the interview — the 12:44 mark — there was a noticeable cut in the coverage at the moment when Muir was grilling Biden. It’s possible that the network was just cutting off dead air, but it is also possible it as trying to save the president from a really embarrassing moment.
This was not the only embarrassing moment in the interview. Earlier, in a series of questions that start at about the 7:30 mark of the video, Biden was forced to admit to Muir that he had not spoken to the mayor of East Palestine, Ohio, since the train crash three weeks ago. All things considered, this interview did not go well for Biden.
Biden’s scandals and missteps have gotten to the point where even media organizations that are usually very friendly to leftist politicians are being forced to ask serious questions about his behavior.
The DOJ knew about Biden’s feckless handling of classified material, but agreed to hide the crime until now.
This was a coordinated coverup from the second they were discovered.
Those classified documents Biden hid from everyone, including the National Archives, have been there since 2017. He absconded with those them as Vice President, without the authority to possess or declassify them.
The FBI’s dog and pony show at Mar-a-Lago involved breaking into a safe which was an authorized SCIF (Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility) and displaying the documents on the floor as if that’s where they were found. Trump is allowed to have classified documents as long as they are secured and stored appropriately; they were. He has the authority to declassify the documents he possessed.
The raid on Mar-a-Lago is a prime example of selective politicized targeting. It’s simply a tactic to prevent President Trump from running for office in 2024. Don’t think for one second that if they had a basket full of bombshells that they wouldn’t be holding daily press conferences, squeezing all the notoriety out of it they could. It’s political theater.
President Trump gets the heavy handed home invasion, while Biden gets lawyers.
Trump keeping documents in a secured room locked with an FBI-requested padlock, at a heavily guarded private residence is “irresponsible,” but Biden keeping documents he wasn’t authorized to possess, in totally unsecure areas like a university office and his home garage, is okay.
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