Several classified documents were found at President Biden’s home in Delaware, leading some to speculate the discovery could challenge his “competence” in office.
In 2020, Biden offered voters a contrast to voters who wanted to move on from the controversies of the Trump administration but, two years later, the Democratic president has his own share of scandals that now include the mishandling of classified information.
“An excruciating week of awkward disclosures and the appointment of a special counsel to investigate classified records found at his Delaware home and a former office dating to his time as vice president is beginning to strain his claim to competence,” writes The Associated Press White House Correspondent Zeke Miller.
Miller, who has covered the presidency for The Associated Press since 2017, added: “It’s an embarrassment to Biden, and the selection of a special counsel to investigate potential criminal wrongdoing in the matter exposes the president to a new, self-inflicted risk.”
DEMS STILL SILENT AFTER LATEST BATCH OF CLASSIFIED DOCUMENTS FOUND AT BIDEN’S DELAWARE HOME
FILE – President Joe Biden in the South Court Auditorium in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House Campus, Thursday, Jan. 12, 2023, in Washington.
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Richard Painter, the top ethics official in the George W. Bush administration, said Biden’s behavior was “incredibly careless and really quite shocking.”
“You never just pack stuff up and cart it out of there,” Painter said, noting aides and lawyers would have to carefully sift through the official records that are property of the National Archives.
Painter said classified documents “have these distinctive markings on them” and described the discovery as “very worrisome.”
He added: “It’s a serious national security breach.”
The latest classified documents scandal also complicates the Justice Department’s pursuit of Trump and whether or not to prosecute him for classified documents found at his Florida estate Mar-a-Lago.
The scandal also has some people recalling the words of former President Barack Obama, who said in 2020 that a Biden administration won’t be “exhausting” like Trump’s.
“It just won’t be so exhausting,” Obama said during the 2020 campaign, comparing Biden’s term to Trump’s. We’re “not going to have to think about the crazy things … and…
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