In a locked safe on Constitution Avenue near the Capitol Building was a gift to Donald Trump. It was discovered at the beginning of November last year when the Ben Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement was about to vacate the building.
In the cabinet were about a dozen classified documents from Joe Biden’s tenure as vice president. They were handled by Biden’s personal lawyers and turned over a few days later to the National Archives, which is charged with preserving and documenting official documents.
CNN reported on Tuesday that it concerned classified reports about Ukraine, Iran and Great Britain from the years 2013 to 2016. According to the TV channel’s sources, the documents were in three or four boxes of material that lacked a security classification, but also fell under legal requirements regarding archiving. Attorney General Merrick Garland is said to have received an initial preliminary report and should decide soon whether to proceed with a criminal investigation.
The discovery is one An embarrassing history of Biden and a heartfelt gift to Donald Trump.
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In early August of last year, the FBI raided the former president’s Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Beach, Florida, to track down confidential documents that had gone astray. This was the third attempt to seize classified documents from Trump. Documents must be stashed in different boxes.
“It’s totally irresponsible,” Biden commented in September.
A special prosecutor at the Department of Justice is investigating whether Donald Trump should be prosecuted for his dealings with the funds. It is one in a series of investigations surrounding the former president, who is also under scrutiny for his pressure on election officials in the swing state of Georgia and for his role in the storming of the Capitol.
some assessors, Some New York Times Trump expert Maggie Habermann, He believes the documents are the legal process that has the best chance of causing a conviction — because it’s relatively easy for prosecutors to prove that Trump was responsible for the transaction.
But after the Biden paper was revealed, W.Jhateoutismen Reach new heights in Washington. It is a method which involves eliminating criticism by focusing on the defects of the opponent, who can therefore be considered hypocritical. It’s common for Trump.
When will the FBI execute it? Raiding Biden’s many homes, perhaps even the White House? Donald Trump asks on social media.
The differences between managing and managing paper presidents are significant. First, Joe Biden has never argued about the files in the cabinet. He was not suspected of concealing classified material and never refused to turn over documents to the National Archives. It didn’t take the FBI to retrieve his papers. It appears Biden’s attorneys acted according to the rulebook when the discovery was made in November. On Tuesday, the president said he was “surprised” to hear about the documents.
On the other hand, Donald Trump has done his best to keep boxes and folders security-labeled.
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Secondly, it concerns some documents. During the pressures and raids on Trump, more than 300 sensitive or classified documents were seized.
Such differences do not matter to the new Republican majority in the House of Representatives. James Combs, who will chair the Congressional Oversight Committee, has already launched an investigation.
Trump and his lawyers Usually stress That the president has the right to raise the security rating of important documents. They have no evidence that this happened with the actions at Mar-a-Lago. But they can now score points on the fact that Biden, as vice president, lacked the corresponding powers.
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Critics also question why the Justice Department kept the discovery a secret through the midterm elections and into January of this year.
The penchant for intrigue—a trait not entirely uncommon in Washington—suggests someone has chosen the timing of the revelations carefully. Joe Biden is expected to announce soon that he is aiming for re-election in 2024. Not everyone in the party wants him to run again.
Those who prefer satire read Borowitz’s report in The New Yorker, where Andy Borowitz pretends to quote several politicians. Tuesday’s address asserts that it would be much worse if Biden got his hands on classified documents, because the sitting president is already reading them.
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