Republican lawmakers tore into President Joe Biden as another trove of classified documents were found at his home in Delaware.
Senator Rick Scott of Florida said Biden was either a ‘hypocrite’ or ‘completely clueless,’ joining the legions of lawmakers questioning why former President Donald Trump‘s home was raided by armed FBI agents when documents were found at his home, but Biden received no such treatment.
Texas Senator Ted Cruz put things succinctly, tweeting ‘Full FBI raid happens when?’
Even an attorney who once prosecuted Trump during the Mueller Probe, Andrew Weissmann, said Biden was ‘digging a deeper hole’ as his administration remained vague about the investigation while more documents continue to crop up.
Five more classified documents were found at the presidents Delaware home on Thursday.
A third set of classified documents have been found at Joe Biden’s Delaware home on Thursday
Senator Scott questioned how long he had the classified documents in his possession, and called for accountability and answers.
‘Either @JoeBiden is an absolute hypocrite or completely clueless. Probably both. We need to get to the bottom of this. How long has he had these…6+ years? Time for accountability.’
At least six classified documents have been found at the President’s private home in Wilmington, some of which appeared to have been haphazardly stored in boxes stacked in his garage alongside his Corvette.
Biden’s attorneys announced finding the latest batch of classified documents on Saturday. The grand total of classified documents – many of which appear to date to his days as vice president – are now up to two dozen.
The first document was discovered in the garage of Biden’s Delaware home where he also keeps his Corvette
It brings the total to six classified documents to have been found at Biden’s home in Delaware
Senator John Kennedy called out what he claimed was multiple problems within the current administration and called for accountability.
‘Just like the #BidenBorderCrisis, the Biden classified documents story is too big for the mainstream media to ignore—and the American people want answers,’ he wrote.
Missouri Senator Josh Hawley wrote, ‘Wait, I thought the WH said on Thursday the search was complete and there were no more docs,’ Josh Hawley wrote on Twitter on Saturday.
Marsha Blackburn, Senator from Tennessee, wrote, ‘Another batch of classified documents has been located at Biden’s private residence. They keep coming.’
Senator Rick Scott questioned how long he had the classified documents in his possession, and called for accountability and answers
Senator John Kennedy called out what he claimed was multiple problems within the current administration and called for accountability
Prominent members of the GOP expressed both frustration and disbelief as they questioned why the FBI has not taken action similar to that when Trump has classified documents
Numerous Republican members of Congress also jumped in after the disclosure.
Congresswoman Lauren Boebert tweeted, ‘ANOTHER trove of classified documents found in the Biden residence. This is after Cringe Karine said that the search of Biden’s home was complete.’
‘Looks like they’ve got documents coming out of the woodworks over in Wilmington. Still no FBI raid…’
Texas Congressman Ronny Jackson wrote, ‘MORE HIGHLY CLASSIFIED DOCUMENTS FOUND IN BIDEN’S HOME!!! How does this keep happening? Biden needs to disclose NOW how many documents were in his possession and where they were stored. As Vice President, he had NO RIGHT to hold onto this information!!’
Ohio Congressman Jim Jordan added, ‘Hillary Clinton mishandled classified documents. Joe Biden mishandled classified documents. But the only one who gets his home raided is President Trump — and he didn’t even do anything wrong!’
Texas Congressman Ronny Jackson used multiple exclamation marks and upper case letters to make his furious point
‘Hillary Clinton mishandled classified documents. Joe Biden mishandled classified documents. But the only one who gets his home raided is President Trump — and he didn’t even do anything wrong!’ tweeted Ohio Congressman Jim Jordan
The White House has stated that it has handled both the discovery of the documents and the subsequent explanations in a ‘transparent’ way, yet questions have been asked by pundits from both political parties as to why the public were not told ahead of the midterms.
Biden has also been reminded of his own comments when he slammed former President Trump for harboring his own set of classified documents on his Mar-a-Lago estate which led to an FBI raid.
‘How that could possibly happen, how one anyone could be that irresponsible?’ Biden said in September to 60 Minutes.
His personal attorneys discovered the documents in the room adjacent to the garage in his home, but did not have clearance to view them, so they had to call in Richard Sauber, special counsel to the president.
‘Because I have a security clearance, I went to Wilmington Thursday evening to facilitate providing the document the President’s personal counsel found on Wednesday to the Justice Department,’ Sauber said, according to Fox News.
‘While I was transferring it to the DOJ officials who accompanied me, five additional pages with classification markings were discovered among the material with it, for a total of six pages. The DOJ officials with me immediately took possession of them.
‘The President’s lawyers have acted immediately and voluntarily to provide the Penn Biden documents to the Archives and the Wilmington documents to DOJ,’ he said.