The White House: Republican anger over the “Biden documents” case is artificial
The White House criticized the Republicans, saying that they were showing "artificial anger" in the case of secret documents that were found with US President Joe Biden, stressing that the latter is cooperating with Congress only regarding inquiries based on "good faith."
A spokesman for the White House advisory office, Ian Sams, said Tuesday, during an exchange with reporters about this embarrassing issue for Biden, that the Republicans are "showing artificial anger."
After the media leaked information about this case, the White House acknowledged last week that files dating back to the period when Biden was Vice President under Barack Obama (2009-2017) were found in one of his former offices in Washington and at his home in Wilmington. Delaware.
The case is embarrassing because Democrats have directed a lot of criticism of former Republican President Donald Trump, who is under judicial investigation for keeping more than 100 secret documents in his home in Palm Beach, Florida, despite his departure from Washington in 2021.
And last Thursday, US Attorney General Merrick Garland announced that he had appointed an independent prosecutor to investigate the case of documents found with Biden, just as he did in the same case facing Trump, in order to dispel suspicions of double standards.
However, the Republican opposition took advantage of its narrow majority in the House of Representatives and launched a parliamentary investigation and demanded more information.
"When it comes to Congress, we intend to review and respond to inquiries in good faith," Sams said. "But we also expect members of Congress to display the same good faith."
And he considered that "House Republicans lose their credibility when they show feigned anger in an issue that they clearly seek only for partisan gain."
Sams confirmed that the White House is "reviewing" the demands of the parliamentary committees, adding, "We will denounce any hypocrisy (...) that may reflect a lack of credibility in these demands."
And the spokesman stressed the idea that Biden is cooperating with the judiciary, while his predecessor refused to return the files, and the federal police had to search his home in Florida last summer, to recover them.
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