As it predictably turned out, moreover, the Biden lawyers’ searchers were so poorly done that, when the FBI finally searched the Wilmington residence on January 20 — i.e., several days after White House spokeswoman Karine Jean-Pierre said the search process by Biden’s lawyers had been satisfactorily completed — search agents ended up carting off an additional six “items” containing classified documents. The Biden administration has been coy about what an “item” is — it could be an envelope, a folder, a box, a cabinet . . . who knows? Thus, we don’t know how voluminous is the amount of classified documents that the Biden lawyers missed.

Oh, and by the way, the best evidence the government has in the Mar-a-Lago documents case against Trump is the inference that Trump, through his lawyers, must have lied — and therefore obstructed the investigation — when they told the FBI, upon surrendering about 37 classified documents in June 2022, that a diligent search had been done and they were confident no more documents were being retained in Trump’s residence . . . only to have the FBI find more documents when it searched the place on August 8.

So . . . what are we to make of the Biden situation? Like Trump’s lawyers, Biden’s lawyers told the government they’d done diligent searches and turned over any classified documents they had reason to believe Biden might be retaining; yet, upon subsequently doing its own search, the FBI found more documents — causing the bureau belatedly to do more searches, like the one now under way in the Rehoboth residence, a search that should have been done months ago. Are we to assume the Biden team has thus obstructed the investigation?

[Just remember, it’s (D)ifferent when a Biden does it. And we still haven’t heard about any effort to search Biden’s McLean residence, nor the University of Delaware’s Biden Senate archives. — Ed]