FIRST ON FOX: Republican congressional leaders blasted President Biden over the classified documents found at his Washington, D.C., think tank.
GOP leadership sounded off on the new revelations, with House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, R-La., telling Fox News Digital on Tuesday that he believes the developments illustrate a media “double standard” favoring Democrats.
GOP leadership sounded off on the new revelations that President Biden, while leaving the vice presidency six years ago, took classified documents to the Penn Biden Center in the nation’s capital.
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“The kid glove treatment President Biden is receiving after being caught with classified documents for over six years after he left as Vice President demonstrates the double standard that exists in the press between Democrats and Republicans,” Scalise said.
The newly-minted House majority leader also brought up the raid on former President Trump
“For years, when President Biden left office, it looks like he took classified documents with him, and he was very critical of President Trump,” Scalise told reporters.
“For years, when President Biden left office, it looks like he took classified documents with him, and he was very critical of President Trump,” House Majority Leader Steve Scalise told reporters.
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“So if then-Vice President Biden took classified documents with him and held them for years, and criticized former President Trump during that same time that he had those classified documents, and only after it was uncovered, did he turn them back,” Scalise said.
House Republicans Conference chairwoman Elise Stefanik of New York also torched the president, saying that Americans don’t trust his Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and Department of Justice (DOJ) and that Biden and the department “must be held accountable.”
“Where is the FBI raid on the Joe Biden crime family after the revelations that he stole classified materials while serving as Vice President and stored these documents at Biden’s ‘think tank’ that has received over $50 million in Chinese gifts?” Stefanik asked in a statement to Fox News Digital.
“Where is the FBI raid on the Joe Biden crime family after the revelations that he stole classified materials while serving as Vice President and stored these documents at Biden’s ‘think…
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