Biden’s Mishandling of Classified Information Complicates Politics of DOJ’s Trump Probes

Indicting Trump just became more politically difficult for the DOJ — but the former president isn’t out of the woods yet.

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President Biden, surrounded by Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg and Labor Secretary Marty Walsh, signs railroad legislation in the Roosevelt Room at the White House in Washington, D.C., December 2, 2022.

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‘Don’t underestimate Joe’s ability to f*** things up.” That notorious assessment by former president Barack Obama of his vice president’s proclivities is undoubtedly getting a workout at the Biden Justice Department these days.

It turns out that around Thanksgiving, President Biden’s lawyers were constrained to report that he had mishandled classified documents, not only transporting them to but also maintaining them in an unauthorized location. This raises the specter of criminal violations of the federal laws governing the protection of secret government intelligence.

Andrew C. McCarthy

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Andrew C. McCarthy

Andrew C. McCarthy is a senior fellow at National Review Institute, an NR contributing editor, and author of Ball of Collusion: The Plot to Rig an Election and Destroy a Presidency.

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