Chair Can't Explain Investigating Biden Docs But Not Trump's

Monday, January 16, 2023

Rep. James Comer, the Republican House's incoming Oversight and Accountability Committee chair, failed to clearly articulate why the newly discovered classified documents found in President Joe Biden's home and former personal office were worth the committee investigating but not the classified documents found at former president Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort.

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CNN asks Comer, who's trying to make a big deal out of Biden's handling of classified documents, to explain a clip of him saying last November that investigating Trump's mishandling of classified docs is "not a priority" for him pic.twitter.com/jaGSbnC4Ew
" Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) January 15, 2023

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It's as simple as Trump is an R and Biden is a D.

And Republicans will never do anything to a fellow R even after insurrection and treason because they are traitors to their country.

#1 | Posted by Sycophant at 2023-01-16 10:54 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 4

Hunter Biden's Laptop is gonna be so jealous!

#2 | Posted by snoofy at 2023-01-16 11:19 AM | Reply | Funny: 2

Trump docs not investigated. Lol!

#3 | Posted by phesterOBoyle at 2023-01-16 04:23 PM | Reply | Funny: 3

Partisans will be partisan.

#4 | Posted by ClownShack at 2023-01-16 04:24 PM | Reply

FUNNY FLAG!!

#5 | Posted by john47 at 2023-01-16 10:07 PM | Reply

Trump's docs are not being investigated? LOL Dems have investigated what brand of TP Trump uses.

#6 | Posted by fishpaw at 2023-01-17 09:57 AM | Reply | Funny: 1

Trump's docs are not being investigated? LOL Dems have investigated what brand of TP Trump uses.

#6 | POSTED BY FISHPAW

Dems are treating Trump and Biden exactly the same. They have appointed a special counsel for both.

NARA started asking for documents from Trump in March of 2021. The FBI did not raid him until a year and a half later (after he did not return the documents asked for). Biden has returned every document asked for. In fact, Biden has returned documents that they were not asked for. So, if a raid were to happen on Biden's properties, then he still has another year before it should happen based on the precedent set with Trump. But, Biden (unlike Trump) is cooperating fully, so there is no reason to raid anything of his.

Dems are investigating both Biden and Trump. Republicans are only investigating Biden. And only intend to investigate Biden. See the difference?

You probably don't so I will lay it out for you... Republicans are proving themselves to be partisan hacks. They are using the different parts of government to help themselves and hurt their political opponents. In contrast, Dems are proving themselves to be consistent and just stewards of government.

#7 | Posted by gtbritishskull at 2023-01-17 10:29 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Trump's docs are not being investigated? LOL Dems have investigated what brand of TP Trump uses.

#6 | POSTED BY FISHPAW

Dems are treating Trump and Biden exactly the same. They have appointed a special counsel for both.

Don't expect fishsticks to understand that.

#8 | Posted by Nixon at 2023-01-17 10:44 AM | Reply

Dems are treating Trump and Biden exactly the same. They have appointed a special counsel for both.
Don't expect fishsticks to understand that.

#8 | POSTED BY NIXON AT 2023-01-17 10:44 AM | FLAG:
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Hmmm, did they raid Biden's home in the middle of the night? No
Did they announce at the precise time of the raid what it was with Trump but with Biden it was found out about 3 month's later? Yes
Did Trump have his lawyer go through the Docs before it was announced? No
Did Trump have the authority to declassify? Yes Did Biden? No.

#9 | Posted by fishpaw at 2023-01-17 12:57 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

The part about these document investigations that's both the funniest and saddest--at once--is that toadies and boot lickers like Comer think that by acting in this manner they will receive thanks and praise from Der Dotard, and that Comer will be welcomed into Dotard's small circle of friends, for whom Dotard will be loyal and protective. He thinks this, even after seeing his lord and master leave so many others at the side of the road, like bags of trash that mysteriously appeared in Dotard's living room...

#10 | Posted by catdog at 2023-01-17 01:04 PM | Reply

"Dotard's small circle of friends, for whom Dotard will be loyal and protective."

Can one person be considered a circle? I guess he's probably fat enough.

#11 | Posted by qcp at 2023-01-17 01:17 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

#9 | POSTED BY FISHPAW

Biden: Oh we found these docs and made it a mission to make sure we don't have anymore. Here are the docs we found.
Trump: We have no docs. And if we do, they are mine!

If you are too stupid to see the difference, I can't help you. Probably no one can.

#12 | Posted by Sycophant at 2023-01-17 01:27 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 4

did they raid Biden's home in the middle of the night?

0900 is the middle of the night?

#13 | Posted by REDIAL at 2023-01-17 01:35 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

Now ask him why hunter biden is being investigated but not jarrod kushners 2 billion dollar payoff from the saudis.

#14 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2023-01-17 02:19 PM | Reply

Did Trump have the authority to declassify? Yes Did Biden? No.

#9 | Posted by fishpaw

Why wont trump's lawyers say in court that he did so? How come they say it on right wing news shows, but they wont say it in front of a judge?

#15 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2023-01-17 02:20 PM | Reply

Biden: Oh we found these docs and made it a mission to make sure we don't have anymore. Here are the docs we found.

#12 | POSTED BY SYCOPHANT AT 2023-01-17 01:27 PM | FLAG:
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3 months after they were found. After the election. And they were in a secure location! Hunter's house! Guarded by underage Russian hookers that were paid with Joe's credit card!

#16 | Posted by fishpaw at 2023-01-17 02:21 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

Why wont trump's lawyers say in court that he did so? How come they say it on right wing news shows, but they wont say it in front of a judge?
#15 | POSTED BY SPEAKSOFTLY AT 2023-01-17 02:20 PM | FLAG:
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Usually there is a hearing where that happens.

#17 | Posted by fishpaw at 2023-01-17 02:22 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

did they raid Biden's home in the middle of the night?
0900 is the middle of the night?

#13 | POSTED BY REDIAL AT 2023-01-17 01:35 PM | FLAG:

Was that when CNN's on the spot reporter said it was?

#18 | Posted by fishpaw at 2023-01-17 02:24 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

Was that when CNN's on the spot reporter said it was?

Feel free to dispute it... what did Tucker say?

#19 | Posted by REDIAL at 2023-01-17 02:29 PM | Reply

"3 months after they were found. After the election. "

Once again Democrats show how much smarter they are than magamaroons.

They immediately reported it to who needed to know and told those that didn't need to know when they were ready.

And they didn't fight the DOJ or lie about it or refuse to comply with subpoenas or try to obstruct justice.

No wonder they win so many elections.

#20 | Posted by donnerboy at 2023-01-17 02:35 PM | Reply | Funny: 1 | Newsworthy 1

Usually there is a hearing where that happens.

#17 | Posted by fishpaw

There was a hearing. They wouldnt say the documents were declassified. How come?

#21 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2023-01-17 02:52 PM | Reply

Fishpaw sure is agitated over this. How about he just answer a simple question:

Should both Trump and Biden be investigated for their classified documents? A simple yes or no will do.

I personally think yes. And it sounds like the DoJ is doing just that. Investigate and if there were any crimes committed, prosecute. Right Fishpaw?

#22 | Posted by bartimus at 2023-01-17 03:06 PM | Reply

#9 | Posted by fishpaw
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Beyond willful, how can anyone be so blind?

They didn't have to raid Biden's home, he turned over the documents and had his lawyers go look to see if there were anymore to be relinquished.
Trump sat on his for a year and a half so a raid was necessary to get them.

Again, major difference between 3 months and a year and a half, between the two.

Trump knew they wanted those documents, what he didn't do is attempt in any manner until after the raid to try and locate any documents.

How do you figure that Trumpt as POTUS had the power to declassify and Biden as POTUS does not? That power doesn't come to the individual, it stays with the office. So Biden could end all this by just saying I declassify all these documents but then he has to go through the process to do it. Something Trump didn't do but tried to claim he did. Simply the papertrail showing those documents to be declassified doesn't exist.

On the whole fishpaw, your points kinda suck because they are without any sort of backing. They are just statements with no proof whatever on the differences.

#23 | Posted by BBQ at 2023-01-17 03:15 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 4

Did Trump have the authority to declassify? Yes Did Biden? No.

#9 | Posted by fishpaw
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Beyond willful, how can anyone be so blind?

Willful ignorance.

Biden also had the ability to classify documents. (Not that it is even relevant).

Obama gave him that ability.

"Under an Obama-era executive order that retained a Bush-era order, vice presidents have the authority to classify and declassify documents " just like presidents."

www.snopes.com

These nuts don't even know what they saying.

They are just spewing talking points from extremist magamaroon sources. Probably insanity Hannity on fixed news.

#24 | Posted by donnerboy at 2023-01-17 03:26 PM | Reply

There was a hearing. They wouldnt say the documents were declassified. How come?

#21 | POSTED BY SPEAKSOFTLY

Because they were not. It's a maga inspired red herring and has nothing to do with the severity of Trumpy's crimes.

#25 | Posted by donnerboy at 2023-01-17 03:28 PM | Reply

When situations like thia arise Republicans just fall back to "Benghazzi!!!"

#26 | Posted by danni at 2023-01-17 04:48 PM | Reply

It's unAmerica to have such loyalty to your political party rather than your country.

#27 | Posted by Tor at 2023-01-17 04:56 PM | Reply

#9 | POSTED BY FISHPAW

I answered all of those questions in my original post (1&2, he's still got a year left until the raid based on Trump's timeline, 3, Trump had a year and a half to have his lawyers go through them) except for 4.

Please show me these declassified documents. Because if they are declassified, then they should be available through an FOIA request, right? So EVERYONE should be able to see EXACTLY what "unclassified" documents Trump had stored at MAL, right?

#28 | Posted by gtbritishskull at 2023-01-17 06:48 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

"Hmmm, did they raid Biden's home in the middle of the night? No"

Hey stupid, did Biden refuse to turn ovrt all dovuments?

#29 | Posted by danni at 2023-01-18 08:58 AM | Reply

The FBI executed a search warrant. It was not a raid.
The sealed search warrant was not executed in the middle of the night. Nobody from the DOJ or law enforcement revealed details of the warrant. That was done by the defendant himself.

Prior to the sealed search warrant, the defendant's lawyers had several opportunities to return the documents. They did not. Nobody was following that, either.

These two stories will be the same when Biden and his lawyers lie about having boxes of NSI sitting around his golf resort. Until then, the DR fascists are unworthy of engagement on this matter. They don't understand the basics (it's too complicated, fascists don't do complicated or nuance unless it involves Jewish space lasers), so nothing they say is worth "debating." As usual.

#30 | Posted by chuffy at 2023-01-18 11:08 AM | Reply

Did Trump have the authority to declassify? Yes Did Biden? Maybe.

Sec. 1.3. Classification Authority. (a) The authority to classify information originally may be exercised only by:

(1) the President and, in the performance of executive duties, the Vice President;
(2) agency heads and officials designated by the President in the Federal Register; and

(3) United States Government officials delegated this authority pursuant to paragraph (c) of this section.

(b) Officials authorized to classify information at a specified level are also authorized to classify information at a lower level.

#31 | Posted by chuffy at 2023-01-18 11:51 AM | Reply

Also, too, Biden is the president, he could have declassified those found documents as soon as they were discovered. T***p sure would have tried.

#32 | Posted by chuffy at 2023-01-18 11:54 AM | Reply