President Biden confronts a ballooning political problem that threatens to hamstring his agenda and blunt the momentum. The discovery of sensitive papers at Biden’s home and office complicates Democrats’ criticism of Trump, even if the cases are different.
in two separate areas of the president’s home in Wilmington, Del.
For Democrats traumatized by Hillary Clinton’s 2016 struggle to justify the handling of her own records — with some blaming the media for giving the story outsize influence — Thursday’s furor provided an uncomfortable hint of what might lie ahead, while threatening to muddy Democrats’ criticism of Trump for taking larger numbers of sensitive documents to his home in Mar-a-Lago.
, Jack Smith. That creates at least a superficial equivalence between the cases — one that triggered some Democratic criticism of Garland on Thursday — with Republicans likely to complain of a double standard if Biden faces fewer consequences. At Thursday’s White House news briefing, press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre repeatedly rebuffed questions about the documents, citing the ongoing investigation and saying that the administration is “trying to do this by the book.”
“The presence of classified information at these separate locations could implicate President Joe Biden in the mishandling, potential misuse, and exposure of classified information,” Turner Rep. Jim Jordan suggested the Biden documents would also be one of the priorities of the GOP’s newly created committee on the ostensible weaponization of the government.
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