Biden 'surprised' government records found at old office

[Omaha Steve]

Source: AP

By ZEKE MILLER 51 minutes ago

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden said he was surprised when informed that government records were found by his attorneys at his former office space in Washington. He was asked about the issue after the top Republican on the House Intelligence Committee requested that the U.S. intelligence community conduct a “damage assessment” of potentially classified documents.

Speaking to reporters in Mexico City on Tuesday, Biden said his attorneys “did what they should have done” when they immediately called the National Archives about the discovery at the offices of the Penn Biden Center. He kept an office there after he left the vice presidency in 2017 until shortly before he launched his Democratic presidential campaign in 2019.

The White House confirmed that the Department of Justice was reviewing “a small number of documents with classified markings” found at the office.

“I was briefed about this discovery and surprised to learn that there are any government records that were taken there to that office,” Biden said in his first comments since news of the Nov. 2, 2022, document discovery emerged Monday. He added that “I don’t know what’s in the documents” and that his lawyers had suggested he not ask.



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[SheltieLover]

1. I think they should check video surveillance to see if anyone was there.

Joe is not sloppy in carrying out his duties.

[CentralMass]

3. +1 - I was thinking the same.

[Irish_Dem]

6. Sheltie you read my mind.

I thought the same thing the second I read the news reports.

We know the GOP and Trump are very capable of a set up.

And they have repeatedly announced that they are going after Joe.

[Marthe48]

19. but not a good set up

They've pulled crap like this since they've crawled out from under the rocks, and whatever they try to direct blows up in their evil faces. r's are evil, but they do crime like the Road Runner.

Blackmail (the National Enquirer) and Jeff Bezos. Fake electors, intimidating election officials, fake investigation of Hunter Biden's laptop, raping women, and coercion (President Zalensky, Brad Raffensperger, and sedition and treason. I can't help putting 2+2 together and seeing traitor's machinations behind this.

I don't know why the media was able to report on what the recently found papers contained, and the dates they covered, when we got very little information about traitor's papers in the same sort of time frame. I'll bet National Archivesis going to be able to put some of those papers into the empty folders found in Florida.

[Irish_Dem]

20. Trump is the mob boss of the GOP crime syndicate.

They think nothing of bringing down anyone going after them. As you point out.

Exactly and bribing the press too.

[Marthe48]

21. Even if a person they target fights back

and gets exonerated, their reputation is tarnished or ruined. But they continue on the best they can. Bloodied but unbowed.

[Irish_Dem]

36. Exactly, the point is to get Trump off the hook for his serious crimes.

Trump doesn't care who he has to kill or harm in the process.

[jaxexpat]

24. Yep, and he's got Capos in every government entity.

Thanks to the crooks on the taxpayer provided payroll, the whole operation is barely breathing.

Its aggravating how the media sits in rapt attention, unquestioningly worshipful of the spoon fed rumors and innuendo provided by the usual sources.

[Irish_Dem]

37. Trump's made men are everywhere in the US government.

From Secret Service, DOJ down to the beat cop.

[jaxexpat]

39. Candidates for service seem mostly from the dysfunctional end of the gene pool.

The general public is otherwise occupied.

score that:
Capitalism 1
Democracy 0

[Irish_Dem]

40. Yes con artists, crooks, career criminals.

The usual narcissistic sociopaths who are quite popular now and held in high esteem.

[2naSalit]

12. Yup.

[appleannie1]

33. My first thought also was they were planted

There is a huge difference also. 1. There were only a couple papers 2. Biden's own lawyers found them and IMMEDIATLY notified the Archives and turned them over without even being asked. No one had to ask, beg, plead or get a search warrant and then hire trucks to put all the boxes into.

[Lovie777]

2. I believe him .....

Why? Because he is 1 trillion times more honorable than the other guy.

[CentralMass]

4. +1

[Omnipresent]

8. Tfg has more problems than Carters got pills!

[gab13by13]

10. Trump has problems from Fani Willis

Read post #9, Trump doesn't have any problems from the feds.

[bdamomma]

5. I trust him

it's not like he had boxes there and did not want to hand them over or saying they were his.

[TreasonousBastard]

7. From certain Repubblican points of view, this happened at the...

best time to replace the tired old laptop refrain. They have already seized on it as one of the best anti Biden things they have for their more brain dead supporters.

[gab13by13]

9. The insurrection is growing stronger,

we are getting closer to a dictatorship.

Alvin Bragg mysteriously refuses to proceed on a case that was ready to go to a grand jury, causing the 2 lead investigators to resign in protest.

Money fraud including tax fraud was turned up in the criminal investigation of Trump.org. mysteriously the IRS is not pursuing tax fraud against Trump when a couple of years ago it used the most severe audit to go after Andrew McCabe and James Comey. Oh, the Trump.org was found guilty and fined 1.4 million dollars, Trump can raise that much in one day on Truth Social.

Merrick Garland chooses to defend Trump (the office) in the E. Jean Carroll defamation law suit which means that Garland believes that defaming someone is an official duty of the White House.

Allen Weisselberg tells his prosecutors that he will cooperate with them in return for a lighter jail sentence. Weisselberg proceeds to perjure himself on the witness stand to protect Trump and he still gets the lighter sentence.

We have a defeated former president of Brazil in the US illegally and nothing can be done to force him to leave the US.

We have an open and shut case against Donald Trump for stealing hundreds of classified documents and he still hasn't returned all of the documents and a year has gone by and our DOJ has done absolutely nothing to him and then lo and behold classified documents are found in a room used by then VP Biden. Hey, hey, hey, Garland I think we found some of the missing Trump documents.

To top it off, Garland continues to repeat that he will not be partisan when a man under investigation, Scott Perry, is now going to investigate Garland. The Republican party is still to this day trying to destroy the institutions of our democracy, they need not worry, DOJ is going to treat them the same way they treat Democrats, a US Marshall appointed by Trump is investigating President Biden as we speak.

[CrispyQ]

27. +1!

I had scant hope in Garland but when the documents surfaced & nothing was done I lost even that. They are going to leave it to the voters to root out the anti-American politicians & if we don't do it, c'est la vie.

[Justice matters.]

34. Good luck with voter suppression, gerrymandering, et al. eom

[Deb]

11. I see this as an opportunity to set a precedent for dealing with TFG

while evil minds are counting on a sinful opportunity for themselves.

[AZLD4Candidate]

13. Cue the right wing outrage machine over this nothing burger in 5, 4, 3, 2. . .

[gab13by13]

14. I forgot to mention,

our economy is doing fantastic under President Biden. The lowest unemployment in 50 years. I do not expect the MSM to cover this, it is owned and managed by domestic right wing oligarchs, one of our Nazi oligarchs just bought Twitter to help control the narrative.

We have Fed chairman Powell basically claiming that he is going to keep raising interest rates until we are in a recession.

Just GOTV and everything will be just fine. The layout of Senators up for reelection in 2024 favors Republicans to take back the Senate.

Did I mention that the insurrection is growing stronger?

We screwed up on 1/7/2021, we should have marched in the streets demanding that the insurrectionists not be given amnesty. That's what the people of Brazil did, they learned from our inaction.

Law enforcement in Brazil isn't using a pyramid strategy, it is investigating who funded their insurrection. We investigated too until we found out that the wife of a SC justice may have been involved.

[CrispyQ]

28. +1, again.

You need to combine both posts in one & post as its own thread.

[videohead5]

15. One of Bidens aides

At the time probably packed these up with his personal papers and sent them to his private office. They were not labeled classified they just had markings on them, so it was easy to get them mixed up. Biden did not know anything about them being at his private office, so he did not take them there.

[CousinIT]

16. Even AP is peddling the false equivalence.

The title of the article at the link and the quotes around the word 'surprised' are meant to cause people to believe that this Biden document find is the same as the Trump one. The part of the story they intentionally leave out is based around INTENT.

[gab13by13]

17. Magats are claiming that this ends the Trump case.

"Too much caution turns into immunity." Adam Schiff.

[usaf-vet]

30. Bullshit! There is a clear difference between the two cases. Biden is the POTUS and according to....

...... TFG's standards he relied on to deflect any attempts to hold him accountable. I AM THE PRESIDENT and IMMUNE.

Prosecute the former occupant of the White House NOW and jail his a$$ for espionage as HE IS NO LONGER PRESIDENT.

Then in 2024 or 2028, the TFG can watch the investigation into former President Biden on the prison TV.

UNTIL that time, Biden is immune per TFG standards.

[JohnSJ]

18. It is time for the Democrats to push back on the half-assed coverage of this, and point out the

difference wasn't the classified documents per se, but the refusal by trump to return the documents, and obstruct every effort for over a year for the government to obtain those documents.

Which part of that DOESN'T THE MSM UNDERSTAND?

Leaving out that important difference is a deliberate attempt by most media outlets to setup a false narrative between the two.

[CrispyQ]

29. "It is time for the Democrats to push back..."

That's been true for 40+ years. I'm still waiting.

[RipVanWinkle]

22. Was this a Roger Stone op?

In 2019, Stone was indicted by Robert Mueller, the special counsel investigating Russian election interference and links between Trump and Moscow.

Stone was convicted on seven counts of lying to Congress, obstruction of justice and witness tampering, in relation to his links to Trump’s campaign and to WikiLeaks, which released Democratic emails obtained by Russian hackers.

In February 2020, prosecutors recommended Stone be sentenced to between seven and nine years in prison. After Trump complained by tweet, the Department of Justice intervened, saying the recommendation was too harsh. Four prosecutors resigned in protest.

Stone was sentenced to 40 months in prison but never went to jail. In December 2020, in the midst of Trump’s attempt to overturn his election defeat by Joe Biden, Trump granted Stone clemency.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/oct/13/roger-stone-trump-ally-january-6-capitol-attack

It's possible that Roger Stone is involved in this (the recent discovery of classified documents at Biden's old office). If Stone was involved, maybe he was doing a favor for Trump.

Sidenote: Google "Roger Stone dirty tricks" and you'll get a lot of hits.

[gab13by13]

23. Too bad Trump wasn't arrested a year ago,

"too much caution turns into immunity," Adam Schiff.

[kacekwl]

25. Is it the job of the then vice President

to walk papers to the National Archives himself. Because they were "found" in storage in the building he used does not mean he put them there or even ever saw the papers. Surely they have a way of checking who had them and when they were brought to him and if they were read and returned to the person who delivered them. If not then the Archives needs to get their shit together. This should and will go nowhere unless it is deemed partisan by the DOJ. We'll see.

[doc03]

26. How is it we heard that the documents Biden had were related to Ukraine and Iran. But all we know

about the ones Trump had is they were classified.

[Blue Owl]

31. This just has all the hallmarks of one of Dump's helmet-hairbrained schemes

So nobody was in that closet the entire 4 years during the Dump administration?

And the timing of it all, just coincidental that it helps Dump right at this very moment?

And it's so transparently unoriginal -- accusing the 'other guy' of what you are guilty for...

I hope they find the evidence that these were planted, because I don't believe for a minute the Joe would be so careless...

[Sancho]

32. I believe that Qanon planted those records in 2016 to sabotage Biden in 2024!

[Bayard]

35. Why is 'surprised' in quotes?

Like its a dubious thing. Along with that photo that looks like he's in pain.

The whole deal smells like bullshit to me.

[Hugh_Lebowski]

38. Because the AP pretty much sucks?

This is absolutely par for the course with them.