JANUARY 10,  2023

YOU KNOW, IT'S SO EASY TO MISPLACE THINGS:  So now Joe Biden is feeling the heat.  Someone found classified documents in his former office.  Didn't Donald Trump have a problem like that?  I wonder what they'll do to Biden.  Don't make me laugh.  From Daily Mail:

President Joe Biden, for the second day in a row, dodged questions about the classified documents found at his think tank in Washington DC, as a new report claims the files contained information on Ukraine, Iran and the United Kingdom.

Biden, who is in Mexico City for a meeting of the 'Three Amigos,' ignored questions shouted to him by reporters during his sit-down with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Tuesday.

"Mr President, did you mishandle classified documents?' a member of the press corps shouted at him.

He merely smiled and stayed silent as White House staff escorted journalists from the room. 

The cache of documents covered topics including Ukraine, Iran and the UK, CNN reported.

The boxes also contained personal Biden family documents, including materials about Beau Biden’s funeral arrangements. 

The files were discovered when Biden's lawyer saw an envelope that indicated it contained personal files, opened it and saw there were classified documents inside. 

The lawyer closed the envelope and called the National Archives, the news network reported.

Biden's team turned over several boxes out an abundance of caution, even though many contained personal materials, a source told CNN.

Meanwhile, Republicans demanded to know why the fact President Joe Biden had classified documents from when he was vice president wasn't revealed until after the midterm elections - with one calling it a 'cover up.' 

'When you cover up something before an election,' Republican Rep. Don Bacon of Nebraska told reporters on Capitol Hill Tuesday morning, 'that is probably a point that needs to be highlighted.'

He said the fact the White House didn't say 'a darn thing till after the election looks political me.'

The White House announced late Monday that Biden's lawyers discovered 10 classified documents in his former office at a Washington think tank on November 2. 

That was six days before the midterm election, where Republicans won control of the House but not by the landslide many had predicted.

The announcement of such a discovery likely would have a been a political explosion in the election, akin to the FBI announcing in 2016, 11 days before the election, the discovery of additional Hillary Clinton emails.

The delay in announcing the Biden discovery has sparked fury among the GOP, and many warned they expect the Justice Department to treat Biden like the agency is treating its probe of former President Donald Trump and the documents he had at Mar-a-Lago.

GOP Rep. James Comer of Kentucky, who is set to become the House Oversight Chairman, said he plans to send a letter to the National Archives on Tuesday demanding answers.

Comer said he had questions about why the two presidents were being treated differently.
'I'm wondering is Joe Biden's personal residence gonna be raided by the FBI,' he said on Tuesday.  

He said he was asking the National Archives about the documents in the possession of both former presidents.

'But we're just trying to find out exactly what went on at both Mar-a-Lago and the Biden's.'

COMMENT:  The double standard is outrageous but we on our side are used to it.  Look at the way Hillary Clinton got away with all kinds of strange stuff.  And how Biden gets away with one lie after another.  He could claim to be Superman and the press would cover for him.

I'm guessing that the Justice Department will "investigate," take plenty of time doing it, and come up with a minor slap on the wrist, if that, for the president.  After all, on Washington's animal farm, as on George Orwell's, all animals are equal, but some are more equal than others. 

January 10, 2023