The Biden papers: the new throwing weapon of the Republicans

• US scandal appoints a special prosecutor to investigate the theft of official documents by Joe Biden

Joe Biden may pay a heavy price for the classified documents scandal.

The discovery of classified papers in his Washington offices, which he used after leaving the vice presidency, and in his family home in Wilmington, Delaware, not only jeopardize his already complicated re-election options for 2024 but threaten to blur the rest. of his mandate.

The Republicans have wasted no time accusing him of endangering

, in what is already the worst crisis the current president of the United States has had to face.

Biden already knew the matter was serious the moment his lawyers found the first documents in his Washington offices in the fall.

The appointment on Thursday of a special prosecutor to investigate him by

, the US attorney general, further aggravates the situation.

Attorney

will have to determine if Biden committed a crime by withholding documents that, according to the law, must go to the National Archives once people with access to them leave office, as was the case with Biden after his eight years. as vice president.

The recently appointed speaker of the House of Representatives, Kevin McCarthy, knows that he has before him a cause that he can exploit to the benefit of his caucus and on Thursday he went on the attack.

"Here's a person who said on

(regarding the CBS show) that he was so concerned about President Trump's documents ... and now we find out that as vice president he kept them open for years in different places," he said.

"I can't imagine a scenario where you accidentally leave classified information in your garage next to your Corvette," Rep .

, R-Ga., told Fox News .

"There are so many questions that I don't know where to start."

Elsie Stefanik

, for her part, a Republican congresswoman from New York, has promised that her party "will hold Biden's corrupt FBI and Justice Department accountable for their double standards of justice and uncover the truth about why Biden has been allowed to be so irresponsible." with documents classified for so long".

She also complained that she had not seen an action similar to those taken by "those agencies", which according to her "launched an unprecedented raid against the house of President Donald Trump".

inevitable appearances

Comparisons between the two cases were inevitable at this point.

Still, analysts in Washington say the legal complications remain far greater for Trump than for Biden.

, a lawyer for the White House, said in a statement that the documents found were there by accident and that they have collaborated from the beginning to return them.

In the case of the

found in the mansion of the former Republican president, the FBI proceeded to carry out a search after obtaining a search warrant.

Trump denied that he was in possession of those documents, including

stored in boxes in a room in his private residence.

In addition, he refused to return them for months even though he knew he could not keep them, using arguments bordering on the absurd.

There is also the question of quantities.

In the seizure last August at the Mar-a-Lago mansion, in South Florida, the FBI recovered more than twenty boxes with documents, at least 60 classified as

, while Biden's papers were found as a result of an office move in November they are much fewer.

There is talk of dozens.

The legal implications for Trump are serious due to the possible

US government material and the

after having refused to collaborate for months.

It is not the only front open to the president, however.

On Friday the organization that bears his name was ordered to pay $1.6 million for tax fraud.

Last month a jury found the Trump Organization guilty of 17 counts in connection with its fraudulent tax dealings.

Executives from two companies, the Trump Corporation and the Trump Payroll Corporation, used a variety of strategies to illegally reduce payrolls, including the allocation of tax-free bonuses and fringe benefits worth millions of dollars.

The one who was the financial head of the company for years,

, was sentenced to five months in prison, which he will serve in the Rikers Island Penitentiary, in New York, in a case that at the moment does not seem to have directly affected the public.

Trump.

The former president has insisted that he had no knowledge of his organization's fraudulent practices, though Manhattan District Attorney

has confirmed that he remains under investigation.

Despite the more than obvious obstacles that lie ahead, Trump seems determined to go ahead with his

.

Same as Biden.

The good results of the mid-term elections have given the president a new lease of life, and not even his advanced age and his constant lapses are stopping his illusion.

.

Until a few days ago, there was an air of optimism in his environment for the 2024 elections, convinced that it was a matter of time before Biden announced his intention to continue and with the party aligned around his figure.

"In due time for him," the president said when asked about the issue earlier this year, with speculation that he could take the plunge as soon as February.

Now, however,

From him.

The scandal of the papers has become an unexpected stumbling block.

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