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The classified document scandal of President Joe Biden is bringing advice from the talking heads on cable news networks.
One of those offering advice, or a warning, is former Counselor to former President Donald trump, Kellyanne Conway who warned the president that the media is turning on him.
“The new facts are not good for President Biden. Why? Well, because it doesn’t matter, really, if the law doesn’t care if you are handling them because you’re sloppy or because you’re surreptitious, she said to anchor Martha MacCallum, Mediaite reported.
“If the purpose of the intent was to conceal or you were just being convenient, the law was very cut and dry. And I think that’s the difficulty for Team Biden right now. The reason I say that is Joe Biden is going to spend his 175th day today in Delaware since he’s been president.
“That’s a lot of days. We don’t know who else had access to these documents,” Trump’s former advisor said.
“I think beyond the right wing in social media today, people are taking note that Hunter Biden claimed that home as his residence for several years had a driver’s license in that home.
“We already know what happens when he’s left to his own devices. There are going to be investigations into his dealings in China and Russia and Ukraine and whatnot,” she said.
“But more fundamentally, the Biden people came to town and said the adults have arrived.
“The buttoned-up, tightened-up crew is here of professionals.
“We know we’re not the ragtag team of Keystone cops that Trump had around him.
“We know how to handle classified information,” she said.
“No, they don’t.
“And I think the blasé, almost benign response from the White House and from President Biden himself is most concerning to me.
.“They are worried about it,” Conway said.
“You know what they should worry about? The mainstream media trying to crack a little bit on this,
“The headlines today were terrible for them.
“The chyrons in places like CNN. The questions from the press briefing room, they all sound like Peter Doocy today actually asking the tough, probing questions,” she said.
And that appearance came the day before President Biden got hit with another bombshell.
The president’s special counsel Richard Sauber, not to be confused with the special counsel that is investigating the classified documents scandal, issued a statement on the matter on Saturday.
“President Biden’s personal attorneys have followed a process, coordinated with the Archives and the Department of Justice, to review documents at the Penn Biden Center and the President’s Delaware residences. The President’s personal attorneys conducting the searches do not have active security clearances, so if they identified a document with a classified marking, they stopped and did not review it, and suspended any further search in that box, file or other specific space where the document was found, as appropriate. Since the DOJ made contact with the President’s personal attorneys, the next step in the process was to notify DOJ and to arrange for DOJ to take possession of the document. This is what occurred in Wilmington on Wednesday when the President’s personal attorneys discovered one document with a classified marking consisting of one page in a room adjacent to the garage. At that point, the President’s personal attorneys stopped searching the immediate area where the document was found,” the special counsel said.
“Because I have a security clearance, I went to Wilmington Thursday evening to facilitate providing the document the President’s personal counsel found on Wednesday to the Justice Department. While I was transferring it to the DOJ officials who accompanied me, five additional pages with classification markings were discovered among the material with it, for a total of six pages. The DOJ officials with me immediately took possession of them,” he said.
“The President’s lawyers have acted immediately and voluntarily to provide the Penn Biden documents to the Archives and the Wilmington documents to DOJ. We have now publicly released specific details about the documents identified, how they were identified, and where they were found. The appointment of the Special Counsel in this matter this week means we will now refer specific questions to the Special Counsel’s office moving forward. As I said Thursday, the White House will cooperate with the newly-appointed Special Counsel,” he said.
