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When Joe Biden ran for the White House against President Trump in 2020, he made the case to the American people that he would restore structure, competence and character, and abide by the rules. It was time to return to “norms” in Washington, he said. “The adults are back in charge!” liberal pundits breathlessly wrote and parroted on cable television.
But years later it turns out Biden has been breaking the so-called norms for at least a decade by hoarding classified information he was not entitled to keep.
After the reveal of the first trove of classified documents, which were stored in Biden’s unsecured former Penn Biden Center office, President Biden gave a statement clearly written by his lawyers after ignoring the issue for days.
“People know I take classified documents and classified information seriously,” Biden read from a statement on Jan. 10. “But I don’t know what’s in the documents. I’ve — my lawyers have not suggested I ask what documents they were. I’ve turned over the boxes, they’ve turned over the boxes to the Archives. And we’re cooperating fully, cooperating fully with the review, and which I hope will be finished soon, and there will be more detail at that time.”
Notably, he did not mention the documents were discovered on Nov. 2, 2022, just days before the midterm elections.
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre then told reporters the search for classified documents was “complete” and repeated the line that Biden “takes classified information seriously.”
But the search wasn’t complete and just two days later, the American people quickly found out a number of classified items were found in President Biden’s Wilmington, Del.
