{"id":429,"date":"2023-01-16T11:10:16","date_gmt":"2023-01-16T16:10:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/?p=429"},"modified":"2023-01-16T11:10:16","modified_gmt":"2023-01-16T16:10:16","slug":"biden-heckled-over-newly-discovered-second-batch-of-classified-docs-a-regular-johnny-appleseed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/?p=429","title":{"rendered":"Biden heckled over newly discovered second batch of classified docs: \u2018A regular Johnny Appleseed\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Fox News host Greg Gutfeld along with others on \u201cThe Five\u201d panel Wednesday gleefully ripped President Biden over the ongoing discovery of new batches of classified documents that seem to be popping up everywhere as the White House spins itself into a tizzy over it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/americanwirenews.com\/trump-takes-karl-rove-to-the-woodshed-for-saying-his-confidential-docs-worse-than-bidens\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">A second batch of classified documents<\/a>&nbsp;was reportedly found on Wednesday in a separate location from the first batch, which led to Gutfeld snarking, \u201cWhat is it with the Bidens leaving important stuff everywhere?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/biden-mocked-newly-discovered-second-batch-documents-regular-johnny-appleseed-classified-info\" target=\"_blank\">Fox News<\/a>, \u201cat least\u201d one other trove of classified documents was found from Biden\u2019s time serving as vice president in the Obama administration. That follows the first batch that was found at an office the president used at the Biden Penn Center in Washington, D.C. six years ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cYou got Hunter just leaving stripper babies and laptops all over the place. [You] got the gun \u2013 Hallie leaving a gun in the trash can. You got the laptop. You got the diary. Ashley\u2019s diary at a halfway house,\u201d Gutfeld humorously noted, listing a number of scandals that have plagued the Biden family. \u201cThese are all really important things. Guns, diaries, laptops. Joe\u2019s a regular Johnny Appleseed with classified information.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On Tuesday, Biden sort of addressed&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/americanwirenews.com\/tucker-goes-scorched-earth-on-bidens-stash-of-classified-docs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">the classified document debacle<\/a>&nbsp;while speaking at the North American Leaders\u2019 Summit in Mexico City. He intoned that he takes the discovery of the classified material seriously while he studiously looked down at a prepared script that he was evidently instructed to read from. He did so haltingly, making it even more apparent that the notes were not his own.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The president praised his attorneys and asserted they did the right and proper thing by immediately turning the documents over to the National Archives. But it is not clear who found the second batch or where they found it yet. And despite finding the first set of documents on November 2nd, just days before the midterm elections, Biden\u2019s attorneys did not reveal them until this week. Not to mention the fact that those documents were sitting in that office for six years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThey did what they should have done. They immediately called the [National Archives]\u2026 turned them over to the Archives, and I was briefed about this discovery and surprised to learn that there were any government records that were taken there to that office,\u201d Biden claimed at the summit. \u201cBut I don\u2019t know what\u2019s in the documents. My lawyers have not suggested I ask what documents they were.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Denying that he knew about the documents or what was contained in them may give the president plausible deniability but it won\u2019t stop well-deserved mockery over the issue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gutfeld kidded that the latest revelations over classified documents were \u201cthe worst thing to happen since the Civil War.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s worse than 9\/11. It\u2019s worse than the Civil War and the Red Hot Chili Peppers combined,\u201d he joked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">MSNBC: Biden aides have found a second batch of classified docs at a different location <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/RNka0mrNUO\">pic.twitter.com\/RNka0mrNUO<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tomselliott\/status\/1613277302825041920?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 11, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Co-host Jesse Watters also couldn\u2019t resist hammering Biden over the documents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI do know that if right now we have ten documents and counting at the end of this, he could have more classified documents out there than Donald Trump had at Mar a Lago. I\u2019m keeping a little tally here,\u201d he smilingly jabbed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s funny that he was surprised to find that they had these documents in a closet. I\u2019m sure he\u2019s going to be surprised when he finds out the Chinese wired his family $6 million. If you read the story, it said they discovered at least one additional batch at least. So there\u2019s more coming,\u201d Watters pointed out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He also wondered aloud about where the second batch of documents was found, intimating that the only place that makes sense was Biden\u2019s \u201cplace in Georgetown.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">How many more batches of classified documents need to be found before Biden gets raided by the FBI?<\/p>&mdash; Lauren Boebert (@laurenboebert) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/laurenboebert\/status\/1613310138202341377?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 11, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cYou know, the place that Hunter got the key for him. And it was an office that he shared. There was a guy named Mr. Dong from China. Remember, Hunter was bringing strippers in there, [a] highly secured place where Hunter brought strippers to have sex with,\u201d he contended.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAnd how secure is this UPenn Center, in the middle of Georgetown? A hop, skip and a jump from the Chinese embassy. Did they have those, like, motion sensor laser beams that acrobats and James Bond movies have to tumble over into a closet? It\u2019s next to a steakhouse, Judge Jeanine. I don\u2019t think this place is Fort Knox. And why is he all of a sudden moving? Why is he cleaning out the UPenn Biden Center?\u201d Watters asked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Look how President Trump was treated when it came to so-called \u201cclassified\u201d documents at his home. <br><br>Now look at how President Biden is being treated for having classified documents at the Biden Center.<\/p>&mdash; Rep. Jim Jordan (@Jim_Jordan) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Jim_Jordan\/status\/1613214759381344256?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 11, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley also weighed in on the documents that are surfacing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe \u2018surprise\u2019 factor seems to be expanding exponentially for the President. \u2026 You might want to find a chair . . . the forthcoming spin from the press and pundits could produce global vertigo,\u201d he&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JonathanTurley\/status\/1613285927257886724\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">tweeted<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201c\u2026It remains frustrating that, after months, the public is still learning incomplete facts through selective leaks. That is made worse by a President who speaks as if he were a pure pedestrian \u2014 surprised by the sudden and inexplicable appearance of classified material,\u201d Turley added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&#8230;It remains frustrating that, after months, the public is still learning incomplete facts through selective leaks. That is made worse by a President who speaks as if he were a pure pedestrian &#8212; surprised by the sudden and inexplicable appearance of classified material.<\/p>&mdash; Jonathan Turley (@JonathanTurley) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JonathanTurley\/status\/1613291550716338176?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 11, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The constitutional expert then noted Attorney General Merrick Garland\u2019s \u201cincomprehensible position.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAt the same time, Garland has maintained an incomprehensible position in refusing to appoint a special counsel to investigate the Biden influence peddling controversy and other issues. He has done so despite clear evidence that the President had lied in denying any knowledge of his son\u2019s foreign dealings and repeated references to the President getting a possible cut or benefits (including the Chinese-funded office) from the deals,\u201d&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/jonathanturley.org\/2023\/01\/11\/bidens-closet-it-is-not-the-crime-but-the-clarity-that-concerns-the-press-and-pundits\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Turley<\/a>&nbsp;wrote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cGarland\u2019s position now borders on the comical. He announced that he was compelled to appoint a special counsel on the Mar-a-Lago and other possible offenses by Trump after he officially became a candidate for the 2024 presidential election. At the time, some of us noted that Biden is actually the president but Garland was steadfastly refusing to make such an appointment,\u201d he concluded.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And as all this is playing out, the White House is spinning the situation for all it is worth. Press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre is feverishly conducting damage control, claiming that Biden didn\u2019t know anything and is above reproach over the unfolding drama.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fox News correspondent Peter Doocy was blunt at a White House press gaggle, asking, \u201cHow can President Biden be trusted moving forward with American secrets?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cBecause his lawyers, his team did the right thing,\u201d Jean-Pierre insisted and she just kept reiterating that stance as if it excuses all of this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The constitutional expert then noted Attorney General Merrick Garland\u2019s \u201cincomprehensible position.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAt the same time, Garland has maintained an incomprehensible position in refusing to appoint a special counsel to investigate the Biden influence peddling controversy and other issues. He has done so despite clear evidence that the President had lied in denying any knowledge of his son\u2019s foreign dealings and repeated references to the President getting a possible cut or benefits (including the Chinese-funded office) from the deals,\u201d&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/jonathanturley.org\/2023\/01\/11\/bidens-closet-it-is-not-the-crime-but-the-clarity-that-concerns-the-press-and-pundits\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Turley<\/a>&nbsp;wrote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cGarland\u2019s position now borders on the comical. He announced that he was compelled to appoint a special counsel on the Mar-a-Lago and other possible offenses by Trump after he officially became a candidate for the 2024 presidential election. At the time, some of us noted that Biden is actually the president but Garland was steadfastly refusing to make such an appointment,\u201d he concluded.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And as all this is playing out, the White House is spinning the situation for all it is worth. Press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre is feverishly conducting damage control, claiming that Biden didn\u2019t know anything and is above reproach over the unfolding drama.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fox News correspondent Peter Doocy was blunt at a White House press gaggle, asking, \u201cHow can President Biden be trusted moving forward with American secrets?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cBecause his lawyers, his team did the right thing,\u201d Jean-Pierre insisted and she just kept reiterating that stance as if it excuses all of this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Original Article: <a href=\"https:\/\/americanwirenews.com\/biden-heckled-over-newly-discovered-second-batch-of-classified-docs-a-regular-johnny-appleseed\/\">Biden heckled over newly discovered second batch of classified docs: &#8216;A regular Johnny Appleseed&#8217; \u00b7 American Wire News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fox News host Greg Gutfeld along with others on \u201cThe Five\u201d panel Wednesday gleefully ripped President Biden over the ongoing discovery of new batches of classified documents that seem to be popping up everywhere as the White House spins itself into a tizzy over it. A second batch of classified documents&nbsp;was reportedly found on Wednesday in a separate location from the first batch, which led to Gutfeld snarking, \u201cWhat is it with the Bidens leaving important stuff everywhere?\u201d According to\u00a0Fox [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-president-biden"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=429"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":430,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429\/revisions\/430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}