{"id":2848,"date":"2023-01-15T16:50:04","date_gmt":"2023-01-15T16:50:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2023\/01\/15\/democrats-walk-fine-line-with-bidens-document-debacle\/"},"modified":"2023-01-15T16:50:04","modified_gmt":"2023-01-15T16:50:04","slug":"democrats-walk-fine-line-with-bidens-document-debacle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2023\/01\/15\/democrats-walk-fine-line-with-bidens-document-debacle\/","title":{"rendered":"Democrats Walk Fine Line With Biden\u2019s Document Debacle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"has-dropcap\">Bipartisan concerns over President\u00a0<strong>Joe Biden<\/strong>\u2019s document discoveries grow after more classified papers were reported on Saturday, and as the House Oversight Committee called for the release of the visitor log for Biden\u2019s home.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/news\/2023\/01\/second-batch-of-biden-documents-have-thrown-republicans-into-an-absolute-frenzy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Republicans have been quick to lambast Biden<\/a>, while also calling the justice system \u201c<a data-offer-url=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RepLaMalfa\/status\/1613674811175178241\" class=\"external-link\" data-event-click=\"{&quot;element&quot;:&quot;ExternalLink&quot;,&quot;outgoingURL&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/twitter.com\/RepLaMalfa\/status\/1613674811175178241&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RepLaMalfa\/status\/1613674811175178241\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">two-<\/a><a data-offer-url=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Rep_Clyde\/status\/1613300917071134734\" class=\"external-link\" data-event-click=\"{&quot;element&quot;:&quot;ExternalLink&quot;,&quot;outgoingURL&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/twitter.com\/Rep_Clyde\/status\/1613300917071134734&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Rep_Clyde\/status\/1613300917071134734\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">tiered<\/a>\u201d and accusing it of having a \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/news\/2023\/01\/bidens-document-debacle-house-judiciary-committee-launches-probe#intcid=_vanity-fair-bottom-recirc_9e7dd22f-cced-41aa-94ee-0668cdc03748_text2vec1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">double standard<\/a>.\u201d But Democrats have been placed in a trickier position: holding the handling of Biden\u2019s document discovery to the same standard as former President\u00a0<strong>Donald Trump<\/strong>\u2019s, while also not equating the two situations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">Roughly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/total-number-of-biden-documents-known-to-be-marked-classified\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">twenty classified papers<\/a> have now been uncovered at Biden\u2019s former office at a think tank in Washington, D.C. as well as in his Wilmington, Delaware home.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">On Sunday, the House Oversight Committee chair Rep.\u00a0<strong>James Comer<\/strong>\u00a0(R-Ky.) called on the White House Chief of Staff <strong>Ron Klain<\/strong> to release the visitor log to Biden\u2019s Delaware residence as well as records of the locations searched.\u00a0\u201cGiven the serious national security implications, the White House\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/oversight.house.gov\/release\/comer-calls-on-white-house-to-release-bidens-wilmington-residence-visitor-log-questions-why-biden-aides-continue-to-search-properties-in-wake-of-special-counsel\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">must provide the Wilmington residence\u2019s visitor log<\/a>. As Chief of Staff, you are head of the Executive Office of the President and bear responsibility to be transparent with the American people on these important issues related to the White House\u2019s handling of this matter,\u201d Comer wrote.\u201d<\/p>\n<div aria-label=\"social media post\" class=\"TwitterEmbedContainer-kxyksn czbHui\">\n<div class=\"MessageBannerWrapper-fyfxvu kMyZEY ConsentBannerWrapper-fjpRfz dNMqq\" data-testid=\"message-banner\">\n<div class=\"BaseWrap-sc-UrHlS BaseText-fFrHpW MessageBannerContent-gbGBbU boMZdO iVSyJe ilxvCJ\">\n<h4 class=\"ConsentBannerTitle-gQPUDA hPrbCQ\">Twitter content<\/h4>\n<p>This content can also be viewed on the site it <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GOPoversight\/status\/1614632595496767488\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noreferrer noopener\" class=\"BaseWrap-sc-UrHlS BaseText-fFrHpW BaseLink-ha-DYir ConsentBannerLink-gnpZZs boMZdO iVSyJe hiHAlJ\">originates<\/a> from.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"paywall\">Rep.\u00a0<strong>Adam Schiff<\/strong>\u00a0(D-Calif.) said on ABC\u2019s \u201cThis Week\u201d:\u00a0\u201cI don\u2019t think we can exclude the possibility without knowing more of the facts\u2026The attorney general has to make sure that not only is justice evenly applied, but the appearances of justice are also satisfactory to the public,\u201d Schiff added, saying he thought Attorney General\u00a0<strong>Merrick Garland<\/strong> had to appoint a special counsel to investigate the matter.<\/p>\n<div aria-label=\"social media post\" class=\"TwitterEmbedContainer-kxyksn czbHui\">\n<div class=\"MessageBannerWrapper-fyfxvu kMyZEY ConsentBannerWrapper-fjpRfz dNMqq\" data-testid=\"message-banner\">\n<div class=\"BaseWrap-sc-UrHlS BaseText-fFrHpW MessageBannerContent-gbGBbU boMZdO iVSyJe ilxvCJ\">\n<h4 class=\"ConsentBannerTitle-gQPUDA hPrbCQ\">Twitter content<\/h4>\n<p>This content can also be viewed on the site it <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ThisWeekABC\/status\/1614641165520740355\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noreferrer noopener\" class=\"BaseWrap-sc-UrHlS BaseText-fFrHpW BaseLink-ha-DYir ConsentBannerLink-gnpZZs boMZdO iVSyJe hiHAlJ\">originates<\/a> from.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/news\/2023\/01\/democrats-walk-fine-line-with-bidens-document-debacle\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bipartisan concerns over President\u00a0Joe Biden\u2019s document discoveries grow after more classified papers were reported on Saturday, and as the House Oversight Committee called for the release of the visitor log for Biden\u2019s home. Republicans have been quick to lambast Biden, while also calling the justice system \u201ctwo-tiered\u201d and accusing it of having a \u201cdouble standard.\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2849,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2848","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrity"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2848\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}