Who knows how classified documents ended up in Joe Biden’s home garage next to his beloved Corvette convertible? If he knows, he’s not saying.
President Biden may be being privately pressured by the Democratic Party or other interests to wind down his presidency, just as he has been busy ramping up for his campaign for reelection.
There are now two separate investigators assigned in the Department of Justice, tapped with inquiring into how Biden came to have classified documents in two locations — in his garage in Wilmington, Del. and at his office at his think tank in Washington.
U.S. Attorney Gen. Merrick Garland, who earlier appointed investigator Jack Smith to determine how the think tank managed to get classified documents from the Obama White House, has now appointed Robert Hur, a department prosecutor, to look into how Biden ended up with a trove of classified documents in his garage. The Garage Gate documents were discovered on Dec. 20, but the news was just revealed this week.
White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters on Thursday that the search for classified documents in Biden’s personal possession is over and that they were simply “inadvertently misplaced.”
“We take this very seriously. The president takes this very seriously. He was not aware that the records were there. He does not know what is in the documents. Again, classified information, classified documents he takes very seriously,” she told the Washington press corps.
What might not be over is the question about whether someone such as Hunter Biden had access to those documents. The president’s son declared the Wilmington address as his home address in 2018, when those documents may very well have been at that address.
The mainstream media appears ready for the kill. Biden was asked by reporters on Thursday about the classified materials.
“By the way, my Corvette’s in a locked garage. So it’s not like they were sitting out in the street,” he replied.
“This is a ground-moving moment for the Biden presidency, and a significant setback as well. With the 2024 election cycle approaching, Biden now faces a major investigation, as well as a bevy of Republican congressional inquiries now that the GOP has taken over the US House of Representatives,” CNN speculated.
