Everybody Does It? Classified Files Found at Pence’s Home, Marking Latest Twist in Saga

Besides the ‘small number’ of classified documents, Pence aides found vice-presidential records that evidently had not been logged with the National Archives.

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Former vice president Mike Pence is interviewed by Kevin Roberts, president of the Heritage Foundation, in front of an audience at the Heritage Foundation in Washington, D.C., October 19, 2022.

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Back in the Clinton days, the president’s apologists used to say, “Everybody does it.”

While everybody, in fact, did not engage in sexual hijinks in the White House with an intern, this line of defense may find traction in the expanding classified-information scandal. Fox News is reporting that classified documents have been found in the Indiana home of former Trump-administration vice president Mike Pence.

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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