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Will Biden’s Classified Document Scandal Derail His Presidency?
Despite having read two dozen explanations about why we should not worry that Joe Biden had confidential government documents in his possession, I am not convinced. President Biden, or someone reporting to him, screwed up. Classified documents, some marked “Top Secret,” ended up in a Washington office building and others in Biden’s garage.
There is no acceptable excuse for what happened. In particular, the argument that Trump’s possession of similar documents was “worse” doesn’t work.
Attorney General Garland has appropriately appointed a special counsel, Robert Hur, to investigate the Biden documents. The House Judiciary Committee, chaired by Jim Jordan (R-OH), will also look into the matter. In the next several months, we will learn a lot more about when the documents came into Biden’s possession, whether he personally moved documents into his garage, and what he was thinking.
It is too early to tell whether the special counsel will take legal action against Biden but not too early to predict that the Republicans will use the scandal in another attempt to discredit Biden and his administration. The scandal is a gift to the new…
