One of President Biden’s political character traits is his manifest disdain for anyone who questions his behavior or judgment. This has been on full public display since the discovery of classified documents at his office and home, and it’s drawing him deeper into a political morass.
“I think you’re going to find there’s nothing there,” Mr. Biden said Thursday when asked in California about the documents found at his Penn Biden Center office and in his garage next to his Corvette. “I have no regrets. I’m following what the lawyers have told me they want me to do. It’s exactly what we’re doing. There is no there there.”
As to the garage, Mr. Biden said it was the equivalent of a secure facility. “By the way, my Corvette’s in a locked garage, OK? So it’s not like they’re sitting out on the street,” Mr. Biden said, with a dismissiveness that would have produced days of commentary about the risks to national security and the rule of law had
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We can’t wait to hear how the President explains the news late Saturday that a more thorough search of his Wilmington, Del., home discovered more documents with classified markings. This search was done at the request of the Justice Department, which finally decided to act like it is conducting a real investigation. Justice had previously let Mr. Biden’s aides and lawyers do the searching.
Justice still allowed Mr. Biden’s lawyers to be on hand for the search, a courtesy they didn’t extend when they raided Mar-a-Lago. Mr. Biden’s attorney, Robert Bauer, said in a statement that the documents included classified material from Mr. Biden’s years as a Senator, which ended in 2008, and as Vice President, which ended in 2017. The discovery of the new material makes clear that Justice’s earlier indulgence was a mistake, and a double standard, and the searches by the White House team were inadequate.
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