CNN’s Jake Tapper put the new Republican Chairman of the House Oversight Committee, Rep. James Comer (KY) on full blast for his blatant hypocrisy regarding the way his committee will handle the 20 classified documents found in President Joe Biden’s home when Comer previously defended former president Donald Trump for having hundreds of top secret documents at his Mar-a-Lago resort.
Comer began ranting about the documents found at Biden’s former office and home. That led to Tapper remarking:
“Let’s go there. You’re talking about the Trump documents. Former President Trump is under an investigation for his own classified documents. There are about 20 in the case of Biden. For Trump, there are more than 300 classified documents at Mar-a-Lago — a big difference here just on the facts.
“Trump did not fully comply with his subpoena, his lawyers falsely told investigators they turned everything in. Take a listen to what you told CNN about this situation last November.”
In the video clip, Comer said of Trump, “I don’t know much about that. That’s not something that we’ve requested information just to see what was going on because I don’t know what documents were at Mar-a-Lago. So that’s something we’re just waiting to see what comes out of there.”
Tapper asked Comer:
“What are you saying to viewers who don’t understand why President Biden’s documents seem like a big priority for you, but President Trump, who took hundreds more documents did not comply with the subpoena, did not reach out to the National Archives or the Justice Department to say, ‘hey, we found these document,’ it’s not only a priority. Do you only care about documents being mishandled when Democrats do the mishandling?”
The congressman responded:
“Absolutely not. Look, we still don’t know what type of documents President Trump had. That’s one of the questions we’ve asked the National Archives. Just because Joe Biden’s lawyers say they turned over five documents, doesn’t mean they turned over five documents. They could have turned over 500 documents. I’m sorry but I don’t have a lot of confidence in President Biden’s personal lawyers.”
