House Republicans seized on the discovery of classified documents at a private office used by President Joe Biden, demanding multiple probes of the incident even after defending Donald Trump’s alleged mishandling of hundreds of sensitive records.
Representative Mike Turner, the Ohio Republican who leads the House Intelligence Committee, on Tuesday wrote to the Director of National Intelligence requesting an immediate damage assessment of the Biden records and a briefing for lawmakers on any sensitive secrets that may have been put at risk.
Nonetheless, the records found at Biden’s office have created a litany of possible political headaches for the president. In addition to a DOJ review and the promised congressional investigation, Republicans have mocked Biden for calling Trump “totally irresponsible” after the FBI search. The president faces questions about the nature of the documents found at his office, how they wound up there and why the White House waited until Monday to disclose their Nov.
Trump, by contrast, took hundreds of classified documents from the White House to his Florida home. The National Archives sought their voluntary return for months before the FBI search, when agents found the documents in Trump’s personal office and a storage closet near a pool and deck open to members of the Mar-a-Lago club.
Democrats hope the incident at Biden’s office will clarify rather than muddy the political and legal waters surrounding a possible prosecution of Trump by demonstrating the appropriate way to handle such documents.
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