Pence Says DOJ’s ‘Double Standard’ Over Biden Classified Documents ‘Deeply Troubling’
Former Vice President Mike Pence has taken aim at what he says is a “double standard” in how both the media and Department of Justice responded to the discovery of classified documents at a Washington think tank that President Joe Biden worked at before taking office.
Speaking with conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt on Jan. 10, Pence also criticized the FBI’s raid of former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence last August, during which investigators seized around 100 documents marked classified or top secret.
Trump is currently being investigated by the DOJ over his handling of the documents.
“The willingness of the national media to just turn away and turn a deaf ear … to the disclosures that when Vice President Biden left office he left with classified documents as well, it just shows you,” Pence said. “It’s like I said before; if they didn’t have double standards, they’d have no standards at all.”…