You know that a country’s politics has become unhinged when its politicians forget one of the fundamentals of their profession: What goes around comes around.
All that stuff about “my friend” and “the gentlelady” flows from knowing that if a politician overdoes the torment, his opponent will spend years waiting for the moment of payback. Exhibit Z is a sitting president saying about his predecessor: “How could anyone be that irresponsible?” Now comes the Democrats’ predictable crucible with everyone’s former good friend,
Democrats initially argued that the Biden and Trump classified-document details weren’t comparable. Um, so what? No one cares about comparable. With the Biden documents, absent facts, we’re into the comfort zone of American politics—rank speculation.
So let’s speculate, a word that sounds like an activity that should be—and once was—done in private.
The timeline of the Biden document tale begins on Nov. 2 when Biden aides are said to have discovered classified papers at the Penn Biden Center, and then turned them over to the National Archives. But it seems more likely the actual timeline began on or about Aug. 9, the day after the FBI raided former President Trump’s residence at Mar-a-Lago.
Amid the get-Trump din, a light bulb must have gone off in a Biden aide’s head: What if the old man did the same thing? Actually, not “what if,” but when did Mr. Biden move his own cache of classified documents out of the Obama White House? They all do it.
While it’s been said that moving boxes is below the pay grade of White House lawyers, they do mop-ups. They would have known they were the ones who had to go looking without making the president an informed party to their hunch. Maybe they could have let this sleeping dog lie, but legal liability for conversations thought to be private about theoretical crimes has become an expensive proposition in Washington.
Why the FBI wasn’t called in immediately to take it from there to the Biden Delaware residence, Corvette garage and Rehoboth beach house is a question now disappearing into a murk of Justice Department rationales. But that and uncountable other questions will be asked by the chairmen of the Republicans’ House Payback Committees, Reps.
Jim Jordan
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