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© Copyright 2023 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission.Democrats: Biden should be 'embarrassed' by classified docs case
By ELLEN KNICKMEYER and SEUNG MIN KIM WASHINGTON©2024 GPlusMedia Inc.
38 Comments
TokyoLiving
Joe is a farce, Turmp is a farce, Democrats are a farse, republicans are a bigger farse..
The whole country is paying the consecuence of ALL..
Ah_so
Of course he should have done much better. He may not have shown the deliberate obstruction that Donald Trump showed, but it was unprofessional and potentially illegal.
Nemo
Its not criminal by a long shot no matter what Trump's cult claim, but yes, its embarrassing.
Yes, he should have done better ESPECIALLY with regards to follow-up searches.
Yes, he should be embarrassed.
dagon
Manchin should be ashamed of being a legacy coal baron using his position as a Democratic senator to campaign against worker empowerment and for environmentally destructive industries in which he is personally entitled.
kurisupisu
Biden is senile and just not able to remember what day it is - he needs to step down…
bass4funk
Nor the Biden crowd, what matters is The Law and neither men can escape it.
Well, let’s hope he stops throwing his press Secretary to the wolves and answers these questions, they’re not going away, dodging them, won’t help, it will just be more scrutiny and suspicion.
Blacklabel
Cute legal strategy to say they found 6 “items”, containing classified material and surrounding materials.
6 folders? 6 binders? 6 boxes? 6 filing cabinets? 6 shipping containers?
what “items” and how many pages of docs?
Biden: I take classified documents. Seriously.
it was just an issue of punctuation.
Hervé L'Eisa
I actually think it's quite comical. Ole Joe making quite a mess.
Laguna
I've read that a problem may be that too many documents are "classified." This is not like Trump's case, where cartons were found after he had left office. How is one expected to do the job of the presidency if he cannot bring documents home for evening perusal?
wallace
30 pages discovered.
Velvet Swan
This is just not supposed to happen and anyone defending Biden is wrong.
Jimizo
Yep. Not a good look.
Hold all politicians to account.
FizzBit
Biden & click is on the road to starting WW III so this story is just filler, you know, like the crap they put in hot dogs, to keep the serious journalism questioning the US involvement in Ukraine off the net.
Blacklabel
“Justice Department prosecutors are reportedly considering requesting a search of President Biden's home in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, after several sets of classified documents were found at his Wilmington, Delaware, home in recent weeks.”
Considering requesting who? The person who is under criminal investigation?
u_s__reamer
Biden is the poster boy for the rotten core of the corrupt American political establishment which for decades has betrayed the working people of America. Trumpism is their revenge as Brexit was in the UK.
Blacklabel
Hey Joe soooo sorry to inconvenience you but next weekend do you mind to go tour other vacation home so we can check the beach house?
you know your lawyers already announced there are no classified docs there….so I would appreciate it if you could make that true for us by next weekend?
Pukey2
Trump and Biden need to share a cell. Room mates.
lincolnman
And another morning gut buster from our Trump supporting friends...
We've known about Trump's stolen classified stash since last summer...and each day they would entertain us with "it's a nothing burger", "stealing classified and lying about it is no big deal", "Hey, he "jedi-mind tricked" declassified all of it"....
Of course. Trump threw them all under the bus this last week, when he claimed, after admitting he stole the classified for six months - and boasting about it - that he now only took empty classified-marked folders with no classified inside...ROFL...
And this after he had his lawyer send a certified memo to the FBI stating that no more CLASSIFIED INFO was at Mar-A-Lago, then the FBI found 103 more docs two months later...clear obstruction of justice...
Now the MAGA-crowd is full of faux outrage - proving once again they're just a bunch of hypocrites...
iradickle
Seems like a few people skipped the second to last paragraph, just saw Biden and started foaming at the mouth.
Blacklabel
Need to update your “material”.
This barely worked before Biden was found FIVE times (and counting) with stolen classified documents. definitely doesn’t work now.
Blacklabel
The topic.
I mean, ouch.
Democrats say Biden should be embarrassed. People who have no shame saying he should be ashamed? That’s brutal.
Ricky Kaminski13
The democrats defending this blatant, comical example of hypocrisy and double standards seriously need their heads examined. You have to love the mental gymnastics it takes to stay true to their cause! Live by the sword, die by the sword. None of this is new wisdom.
lincolnman
Trump is leading Biden 304 to 30 in total docs found - I guess that's "winning"....
But maybe that's incorrect, Trump now claims he only stole empty folders - no classified. So why did his lawyer admit in Jun that all CLASSIFIED was returned? And why even after that declaration, did the FBI find 103 more classified docs two months later? And why did Trump state he declassified his stash last year, but now says he didn't take any?
ulysses
The MAGA idiots are desperate for issues and will grab on to this without understanding the implications.
Trump had HUNDREDS of classified documents, versus Biden’s DOZEN or so.
Trump intended to take them, refused to return them, had to be raided by the FBI to secure them, then fought in court for months to keep them. In contrast, Biden’s team returned them voluntarily & promptly.
ulysses
The MAGA idiots hope that donald will somehow escape prosecution because they founds documents in Biden's house.
donald will go to prison because he stole the documents, refused to admit that he stole them, lied about them when questioned. We will know one day who he was planning to sell the documents to.
Money is in short supply for this failed con artist and the Saudis are not going to help him on this one!
Blacklabel
then why have there been four different times that stolen documents been found at the same home over a 3 month period now?
ulysses
Another fantasy, try understanding what you are posting!
FizzBit
LOL
Hardly.
Nobody cares about Trump except leftists. So, all you harping about Trump are just making yourselves look very silly.
Nemo
They do indeed home that, but Joe's carelessness (and that is really all that it is) is not going to save the Dotard from any of the 3 Federal or 2 State criminal grand jury investigations he is facing of which obstruction of justice is only one.
ulysses
Isn't that your job?
Not a real job though!!!
Ricky Kaminski13
Watch the mental gymnasts keep conjuring trump and 'MAGA idiots' ( anyone who doesn't think like them ) as a way to keep the focus off their own dirty laundry. Bring out the smokescreen! Nothing to see here. *nervous side glance.
And no, poor ole Joe doesn't know whats in his own freezer, doesn't know what's in his hand even. Someone please shake it!
RKL
For the most part---all quiet on the liberal front today.
Blacklabel
I mean I haven’t read anything that it’s ok for ex Senators and ex VPs to have even one document at their homes much less dozens.
but I have read that presidents (and only presidents) have declassification authority. That’s why Biden has stolen classified documents. Under no scenario is he authorized to have even one of them.
the orange guy? He has documents “marked as” classified. that may or may not be classified anymore. That he may or may not be authorized to have.
lincolnman
Real quiet on this one....
But maybe that's incorrect, Trump now claims he only stole empty folders - no classified. So why did his lawyer admit in Jun that all CLASSIFIED was returned? And why even after that declaration, did the FBI find 103 more classified docs two months later? And why did Trump state he declassified his stash last year, but now says he didn't take any?
Silence of the lambs...ROFL...
ulysses
I think we can identify the problem right there, more reading required.
One inconvenient fact that presidents cannot declassify by thinking something. They might one day but not now.
Hate to break it to you but he had classified documents that he willfully stole knowing their contents.
And he wanted to sell them to foreign powers to keep him out of the poorhouse!