The Biden Files

When Republicans threatened to impeach President Biden once it became apparent that they were going to win control of the House of Representatives. the President laughed and said, "What for?"

Oh, I don't know, perhaps for having some government documents in files that were found in two seperate offices he used after leaving the Vice Presidency in 2017?

Republicans were quick to attack the White House for this, many of them smugly saying that Joe Biden (not "President Biden," as that would legitimize him) did no better with classified files than President Trump (not "Donald Trump," as that would be an admission that he shouldn't still be in office) did at Mar-a-Lago.  In fact, the circumstances of the two file issues are vastly different: President Biden had maybe ten or twenty documents in his old offices, a couple of which were classified, and the President has been cooperating with the investigation since his lawyers alerted and turned them over to the Justice Department, while Trump had hundreds of documents at Mar-a-Lago that he carted to Florida - at least sixty of which were top secret, though Trump said he declassified them by thinking of it - and refused to give them back, and the Justice Department and the National Archives had to go after Trump's lawyers to get back only a handful of them before they had get a warrant to search the premises.   

Thanks to pure politics, none of that matters.  As much as Jake Tapper and Lawrence O'Donnell argue that the differences between the two cases are vast, other pundits admit that the mere appearance of impropriety makes this a contentious issue for the Democrats, and it puts pressure on Attorney General Merrick Garland to appoint an independent counsel to investigate the Biden file issue, lest he be accused of a double standard by having an independent counsel investigate Trump and not have one investigate Biden.  One all of this gets into full gear, the difference between these two situations will evaporate faster than spilled water on a sidewalk in Phoenix.  So what if Garland would be establishing a double standard because on the fact that the two cases are of . . . two different standards?  As long as Biden - already facing investigations for possible influence peddling off his name on the part of his brothers and also looking at a future investigation regarding his son Hunter - gets so battered and bloodied to the point where no one wants to vote for him anymore, that's all that matters.

Did I happen to mention that the discovery of these files in Biden's old office took place six days before the 2022 midterms?  Bu we're only finding about it now . . .after everyone voted.  Talk about awkward!

Biden will be impeached by the House, and though he won't be convicted by the Senate, it's going to make a 2024 re-election campaign very awkward.

This is going to be Hillary's E-Mails Mark Two.  That issue, of course, led to Hillary Clinton's loss in the presidential election of 2016 to a man who alienated the country from the rest of the world, all but outlawed efforts to combat climate change, named three right-wing judges to the Supreme Court, and let COVID spread like so much runny jelly on toast.

But at least Trump will return any files he still has to the White House . . . when he's back in the Oval Office two years from now.