Over the last week, journalists at most major news outlets wrote long “explainers” claiming President Donald Trump’s mishandling of classified documents was far worse than President Joe Biden’s. But now, as the White House announces the discovery of additional classified documents, journalists are furiously backpedaling.

For example, The Washington Post late yesterday published a long, defensive article about how its reporters did their best to be fair and balanced against critics on both sides.

But what was known when reporters wrote their explainers did not warrant the news media’s rush to judgment.

We still don’t know how many classified documents Biden had or has. This morning, the White House announced that Biden aides had, earlier this week, found five more pages of classified material at Biden’s personal residence in Wilmington, Delaware. This is the third announcement of classified material. Given the pattern of events, it would be inappropriate to assume this will be the last classified document found.

As such, the claim that Trump had roughly 30 times more classified documents than Biden rested on false assumptions. What’s more, nobody is in a position to say whether Trump’s apparent mishandling of classified documents was more of a threat to national security or a violation of the rules than Biden’s because we don’t know what exactly was revealed in the documents.