Biden files: Republican Sen. Tim Scott tears into administration for sitting on documents discovery

Republican South Carolina Senator Tim Scott on Monday denounced the ‘stench of hypocrisy’ he believes is wafting from the Biden administration amid growing backlash over the president’s possession of classified documents.

Documents dating back to Biden’s vice presidency were discovered in his Wilmington, Delaware home and at a Washington, DC think tank where he used to have an office.

Scott appeared on Fox News just as the White House revealed there were no visitor logs for Biden’s private house, amid concerns over who could have accessed the classified files there.

The president and his White House have repeatedly asserted that they are cooperating with the National Archives and Justice Department as the matter is investigated.

But questions are still piling up over why the initial discovery, which occurred at the Penn Biden Center in Washington on November 2, 2022, was not revealed by the White House until this month.

Critics have also suggested they were kept secret for ‘political’ motivations, with the November 8 midterms less than a week later.

‘The truth is that they suppressed the information before the election so that it would not have impact during the election. That sounds like a little bit of engineering from my perspective,’ Scott said on Monday morning.

‘The stench of hypocrisy coming from this administration is making the American people sick.’

Referencing today’s holiday to honor slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., Scott – who is black – continued, ‘I can’t imagine this double standard in the justice system being applied on MLK Day to black folks versus white folks.’

‘Can you imagine how this administration continues to treat their friends and themselves, versus President Trump, or their adversaries? We can’t have a two-tiered justice system in America,’ Scott said. 

Republicans are asking why there are no visitor logs to President Biden’s private residence in Wilmington, Delaware in light of classified document debacle 

President Joe Biden’s private home in Wilmington, Delaware and location of several classified documents 

Timeline of events leading up to U.S. Attorney General Merrick Gartland appointment of a Special Counsel to oversee investigation into Biden’s handling of classified documents

It’s not clear how Trump is linked to the senator’s point about racism in the justice system, but Biden’s possession of classified files has spurred furious comparisons among Republicans about how the former president was treated for his handling of secret presidential records – which resulted in an FBI raid – compared to Biden’s own lawyers being allowed to search for and turn over his.

Among the top differences between the two situations revolves around compliance. Trump’s Florida estate was raided because officials believed his legal team was not being truthful about the ex-president’s possession of classified files.

Biden’s attorneys, in contrast, have appeared to have gone out of their way to make a show of cooperating with investigators.

But Scott claimed on Monday that the media reactions to today’s revelations that there are no available visitor logs for Biden’s Delaware home would have been vastly different.

‘The national media would have lost their minds had the name been “Trump” and not “Biden” on the logs,’ Scott said.

The White House told multiple outlets on Monday, ‘Like every President in decades of modern history, his personal residence is personal.’

‘But upon taking office, President Biden restored the norm and tradition of keeping White House visitors logs, including publishing them regularly, after the previous administration ended them.’