One would need to know more about the type and number of files found at Joe Biden's former place of work in order to be able to conclusively assess whether the find rhymes with scandal or carelessness.
But one date has already been set: Biden's lawyers found the confidential documents from his term as Barack Obama's vice president by November 2 at the latest, six days before the congressional elections.
Apparently the National Archives were duly notified immediately, but the matter has so far been kept from the public.
If Biden wanted to motivate his opponents to invent new conspiracy tales about him or the "deep state," then he's succeeded.
Probably no legal aftermath
Few would be interested in the whole affair if Donald Trump hadn't been under investigation for months, who had taken crates of documents from the White House to his golf club and defied all authorities' requests to return them - until the FBI showed up at the door.
This process has a completely different dimension.
In all likelihood, Biden will have no legal repercussions, and that has nothing to do with Merrick Garland being “his” Attorney General.
But it has now become even more difficult for both of them to convey to the public that the trial against Trump is not politically motivated but legally required.