Republicans want Biden home visitor logs - but not Trump's

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Source: Reuters

By Doina Chiacu

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The Republican chairman of the House Oversight Committee on Sunday demanded visitor logs for President Joe Biden's house in Wilmington, Delaware, after classified documents were found in his office and garage.

"Without a list of individuals who have visited his residence, the American people will never know who had access to these highly sensitive documents," Representative James Comer said in a letter to White House Chief of Staff Ron Klain dated Sunday.

Republicans have sought to compare the Biden documents case, which involves material from his time as vice president, with that of former President Donald Trump, who faces a federal criminal probe of how he handled classified documents after he left the White House in 2021. But legal experts say there are stark contrasts between the two cases.

Comer said he would not seek visitor logs for Trump's Mar-a-Lago residence, where more than 100 classified documents - some of them labeled top secret - were found in an FBI search.

Read more: https://www.yahoo.com/news/republicans-want-biden-home-visitor-170101006.html

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Comer's another partisan mental midget.

[peppertree]

1. First - testimony from the girlfriend you brutalized, and her mother, little Jimmy Comer

Then, we'll talk (maybe).

[LiberalFighter]

2. I want the visitor logs for the Republicans in Congress. Both office and district.

Also for Supreme Court Justices.

[Rebl2]

11. Yep

[Evolve Dammit]

17. How about we stand firm on that first? Have "requests" even been initiated? Can they be "compelled"?

[bucolic_frolic]

3. Didn't they find Comer's laptop yet?

I thought I read someone was looking .....

[ancianita]

4. We'll never know because Mar-a-Lago, a private residence, doesn't have visitor logs to begin with

that would be legally subject to any congressional scrutiny without a congressional subpoena. Fat chance rethugs would even try to appear evenhanded behind that. But if by chance visitor logs do exist, maybe Jack Smith has power to subpoena them, or conduct a surprise warrant search. Otherwise, Trump would just send some bogus other set of logs, anyway.

[thecrow]

21. Didn't TFG just say

Mara Lardo was a fortified fortress?
In that case they surely have visitor logs…. Right?

[ancianita]

24. Did he? I didn't catch that.

Anyway, even if he did and it is, why would a fortress keep logs of anyone coming in and out. I'd imagine only SS keeps any record for Homeland.

[TigressDem]

26. Technically, it's a resort and FL was letting him use it as a residence.

https://www.palmbeachpost.com/story/news/2020/12/16/neighbors-say-trump-cant-live-mar-lago-estate-once-presidency-ends/3923305001/

Mar-a-Lago neighbors say Trump forfeited right to live on estate once presidency ends
The president forfeited his right to live at the estate in 1993 once he turned it into a private club, a lawyer tells Palm Beach officials.

[ancianita]

28. I'm aware of that. I used "residence" loosely and so does he, now that Palm Beach has failed

to force him out.

[Justice]

39. Huh? MAL is a private commercial establishment. Club members and permitted guests were checked in

upon entering. A small portion of MAL property had a private residence for Trump. But the documents found at MAL were in Trump's office and in the commercial storage area, accessible to many.

[ancianita]

40. Yes, it is. I misremembered. And you know for a fact that members & sponsored guests were

checked in? or logged in? Please link. Because no one else here has. So Mar-a-Lago is a name that applies to both the club and the private 3,000 sq ft residence that Trump does maintain there, by all accounts.

The GOP demand a lot of stuff as if it's important. They're not serious. And they don't really care that any number of people have walked into Trump's club premises without showing ID, nevermind signing some alleged log; e.g., a local teen, two Chinese nationals entered, and were caught, but non-members can still purchase entrance tickets. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/sep/20/mar-a-lago-map-security-visualized

Visitors' logs don't exist in the Bidens' home, and there's no confirmation that they exist in Trump's, either. Or even in the club. What are the ramifications for the government documents in their residences, classified or unclassified, we really can't say. But why speculate when the SC's will likely come up with the contexts of those docs' appearance, anyway. It's the rational reason for this conversation, anyway.

[Rural_Progressive]

5. And in there lies the significant difference between the parties

In general Democrats value good governance, transparency, and accountability from all members of governement

In general Republicans value holding on to power, self-serving monetary gain, controlling people's lives and the governance aspect is of no interest to them whatsoever.

[CharleyDog]

7. they want home visitor logs so they can point to Hunter Biden and then try to

insinuate treason.

[FBaggins]

9. They don't need logs for that

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They can already show that he lived there during the time the documents were there - since it was his home address and they were presumably there for six years.

As if they needed proof before they would insinuate treason.

What they're really hoping for is to get logs for all visitors in the hopes that some Chinese official or someone involved in one of Hunter's supposed business interests is in those logs.

[SouthernDem4ever]

27. I would say cozying up to dictators and having secret covert conversations with them

and doing things completely against the interest of democracy and the United States insinuates treason more than anything else. The false equivalency is obvious.

[Trueblue1968]

8. HEY Representative James Comer --- GO HUMP YOURSELF.

[33taw]

10. Executive privilege - he owns them.

[manicdem]

12. It should be released

Biden should make a big spectacle of it by releasing the logs and showing Repubs are making a bill deal of nothing.

[iluvtennis]

13. President Biden needs to let them take him to court if they want the logs. We need to start

fighting back this BS and stop acquiescing.

[LenaBaby61]

38. THIS 👆🏻👆🏻👆🏻👆🏻

[Emile]

14. Just ignore them. They have been good teachers on

avoiding investigations.

[BOSSHOG]

19. What goes on in the mind of a conservative

Chickenshit, treasonous bastard gym Jordan ignores subpoenas and yet upon becoming committee chairman by gawd he’s gonna subpoena every democrat in Washington. And since he and his fellow chicken shits don’t know how to lead, govern or manage money the country will inch towards hell while gym and gang preen for people trump love.

[hadEnuf]

23. Republicans have had no intention of leading anything except scemes to try and damage or destroy

Biden and Democrats in general. That, and to fleece the country for themselves and the rich.

That's it. Americans are nothing more than rubes or potential weapons to be manipulated for the aforementioned Republican goals.

[Jarqui]

15. Biden can tell them what Trump did "there are no visitor logs at my private residence" ..nt

[Jarqui]

20. "Yeah but Hunter has a REALLY hot laptop now ..." ...nt

[Jarqui]

33. And that is what they did ... ..nt

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/white-house-counsel-no-visitor-logs-for-biden-delaware-home/ar-AA16ptca?cvid=1c80fb644f9a4eb5a7725d5951fa3a8c

[paleotn]

16. Pound sand.

[LudwigPastorius]

22. They're trying to gin up more bullshit about Hunter Biden.

"OMG Hunter Biden sold top secret documents to Antifa out of Joe Biden's car hole!"

[womanofthehills]

37. It's not a good look, that the documents were in the garage when Hunter lived there

and the Republicans are on to this big time.

[William Gustafson]

25. Tell them to go pound sand....

Until the special council is finished up with his report. And because this is a private residence, a search warrant would be required for the phone records. No judge is going to give a warrant when The Presidents lawyers are doing their search, and immediately turning over any documents they may have. So, start pounding sand, you simpletons.

[Initech]

29. This is what happens when your mind is rotted by propaganda.

[orleans]

30. i don't understand why biden would have visitor logs at his residence in the first place

i've never had a visitor log at my home

friends have come and gone, relatives, repair work has been done, all without visitor logs

who the fuck has a visitor log in their private residence? or in their store? etc

[republianmushroom]

31. tell them (repubs) to sit on it.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

32. White House counsel: No visitor logs for Biden Delaware home

The White House says no visitor logs exist for President Biden’s private residence near Wilmington, Delaware, where classified documents were found, after House Republicans called for the release of such records.

“Like every President across decades of modern history, his personal residence is personal,” the White House Counsel’s office said in a statement to numerous news outlets on Monday.

“But upon taking office, President Biden restored the norm and tradition of keeping White House visitors logs, including publishing them regularly, after the previous administration ended them,” it added.

The revelation comes after Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.), the chair of the House Committee on Oversight and Reform, called on the administration to release the visitor logs from the Delaware home as Republicans heats up their inquiry into Biden’s handling of Obama-era classified documents.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/white-house-counsel-no-visitor-logs-for-biden-delaware-home/ar-AA16ptca

[tonekat]

34. Did Comer stamp his feet?

Did he hold his breath? Did someone tell him there are real concerns and to stop wasting time on their "revenge" agenda?

[Paladin]

35. Are we supposed to be surprised by this? (nt)

[LetMyPeopleVote]

36. Why didn't you call for investigations and hearings into Mar-A-Lago visitor logs?

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