by John Solomon
When Attorney General Merrick Garland announced Nov. 18 that he had named a special prosecutor to investigate former President Donald Trump’s handling of classified documents found at the Mar-a-Lago compound, the government harbored a fresh secret: The current president, Joe Biden, had a similar problem.
Just two weeks earlier, Biden’s lawyers disclosed to government lawyers on Nov. 2 — just six days before the midterm elections — that they had found sensitive government documents with classified markings inside an office that Biden used at the Penn Biden Center think tank in Washington after he left office as Barack Obama’s vice president.
The public was kept in the dark about the startling discovery until Monday, when the White House confirmed it was cooperating with an investigation launched by the Justice Department at the request of the same National Archives that has tussled with Trump over the last year.
The belated disclosure turned the political tables on Biden, who sharply criticized Trump for his document debacle last fall, while also raising troubling new questions that will be need to be answered by a U.S. Attorney in Illinois and Congress.
Those questions include:
- Are there any other documents missing from Biden’s government document collection from his time as vice president?
- Are there any other locations — insecure or secure — where Biden might have kept sensitive government secrets?
- Did the government delay notifying the public for political or other purposes, such as sparing Biden from criticism or to keep voters in the dark before Election Day?
- Did any foreign powers have access to the office space where the documents were found?
The latter question took on added significance Monday night because it has been known for years that the University of Pennsylvania received extensive Chinese funding — estimated in some media reports at $54 million — around and after the time Biden announced his policy think tank was going to be part of the university’s Washington program.
Republicans who chafed for months at the Biden Justice Department’s records battle with Trump immediately seized on the revelation and vowed a vigorous investigation.
“Under the Biden Administration, the Department of Justice and National Archives have made compliance with the Presidential Records Act a top priority,” Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.), the new chairman of the House Oversight and Accountability Committee, told Just the News. “We expect the same treatment for President Biden, who has apparently inappropriately maintained classified documents in an insecure setting for several years.”
Rep. Ronny Jackson (R-Texas), a former White House physician, went even further to suggest Biden was a hypocrite, his administration guilty of a double standard and the whole episode possibly a national security risk.
“Biden knew for YEARS that he’s been storing HIGHLY CLASSIFIED documents in his personal office,” Jackson tweeted. “He KNEW it when FBI agents were raiding Mar-a-Lago, and he KNEW it when he appointed a partisan special counsel. HE KNEW THE WHOLE TIME BUT STILL HAD HIS DOJ GOONS PERSECUTE TRUMP!!”
Rep. Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.) said the connection of Chinese money to the university added a troubling aspect.
“This think tank received $54 million in funding from the CCP,” Biggs wrote on the Truth Social platform. “The Biden family highly concerns me.”
Trump himself was glad to turn the tables Monday night on his rival.
“When is the FBI going to raid the many homes of Joe Biden, perhaps even the White House?” Trump asked in a post on Truth Social. “These documents were definitely not declassified.”
For now, the first line of business — to determine whether crimes were committed or other documents are missing — will fall to U.S. Attorney John Lausch, a Trump holdover in Illinois who has been asked by Garland to lead a review of the Biden documents.
A senior government official directly familiar with the discovery told Just the News that the National Archives asked the Justice Department to open an investigation in November after a small number of classified documents — some marked top secret — were found in a closet in the Penn Biden Center in Washington, where Biden worked after he left the Obama administration.
The White House released a statement Monday evening confirming the discovery and the investigation, saying Biden’s lawyers self-disclosed the existence of the documents when the office previously used by the president was being vacated for another party.
“The White House is cooperating with the National Archives and the Department of Justice regarding the discovery of what appear to be Obama-Biden Administration records, including a small number of documents with classified markings,” White House special counsel Richard Sauber said in a statement after the discovery was reported by CBS and CNN. “The documents were discovered when the President’s personal attorneys were packing files housed in a locked closet to prepare to vacate office space at the Penn Biden Center in Washington, D.C.”
The question is why was this not reported to the publication to the 2022 midterms? Did the DOJ place it’s substantial thumb on the scales AGAIN? Did they go after Trump because they knew Biden was guilty BEFORE???
Were those documents more of the kind useful to Hunter’s corrupt scenes with “The Big Guy”???
2024 must be a referendum on the corrupt Biden Administration, the Democrats and how they use the government to rig the elections by smearing some and cloaking others…
Every new criminal act committed by the Democrats raises new and more questions. The more questions get answered, the more questions are asked. Democrat corruption runs deep
But, really, we don’t know where they were when they were found. I doubt they were locked up or secured in any way. There’s no real telling what the circumstances were because this regime and everyone around it lies constantly and nothing that comes out of it can be trusted.
The documents idiot Biden had were about Ukraine. What, I wonder, was the subject matter? Trump’s declassified documents were about Crossfire Hurricane, which was classified and hidden from the public because they exonerate Trump and incriminate Democrats. Idiot Biden’s documents were NOT declassified and probably expose his and Hunter’s corruption in Ukraine, with Burisma and about the firing of the prosecutor breathing down Hunter’s neck. In other words, both batches point to Democrat corruption and they way both have been handled also exposes Democrat corruption.
Everyone knows Trump was selling nuclear codes from the files scattered across the floor in his office. I know Miley said he hid the codes but in his genius 7 D chess game he actually packed them in with napkins and photos destined for MaraLargo. (sarc off)
This is bigger then Watergate ever was this is all about Treason and stolen election and the M.S. Media Conspiracy against the Truth