Classified Documents: Biden’s Team Is Making This So Much Worse Than It Has to Be

Photo Illustration by Elizabeth Brockway/The Daily Beast/GettyIt’s easy to forget that the total number of known classified documents now found at President Joe Biden’s former private office at the Penn-Biden Center and at his private residence in Delaware appears to be very small. This is especially in comparison to the more than 300 classified documents former President Donald Trump had at Mar-a-Lago, plus the additional ones found at a West Palm Beach storage unit used by Trump. It’s also easy to forget that Biden’s representatives have repeatedly and immediately turned over documents they found. In contrast, Trump refused to return classified documents in his possession despite months of requests from the National Archives, a grand jury subpoena issued at the Justice Department’s request, and a visit to Mar-a-Lago from DOJ officials. Trump also raised bogus arguments about his ability to declassify documents merely by thinking about them—despite the fact that neither he nor his attorneys ever identified a single document that he had supposedly declassified.The months-long debacle of Trump gumming up the DOJ investigation into the documents he had withheld, by convincing one of the judges he appointed—Judge Aileen Cannon—to baselessly appoint a special master seems also to have slipped from the media and public’s attention span.Read more at The Daily Beast.