Joe Biden owns two homes in Delaware. He has traveled to one or the other of them so frequently as president that it has been noted that Biden has spent 40% of his time as president away from the White House, enjoying personal time. His long weekends back home in Delaware frequently begin on Friday afternoon and end sometime on Monday when he arrives back at the White House. Those weekend jaunts and his longer family vacations add up. Who, besides family members, is the president spending time with when he’s away from cameras and the White House press corps?

House Oversight Committee chairman James Comer (R-KY) is asking that question. Remember, when Joe Biden came into office, he claimed that his administration would be the most transparent administration ever. Since then, nothing could be further from the truth. The White House likes to say that the visitor logs are available for others to see but there do not appear to be visitor logs kept at either of his mansions in Delaware. And, we have not seen visitor logs from the Penn Biden Center, either. His primary home in Wilmington and his “think tank” are both locations identified where classified and sensitive documents have been found. Who else potentially had access to the documents?

Rep. James Comer told White House chief of staff Ron Klain in a letter Sunday that it is “troubling” that the classified documents from Biden’s time as vice-president were found “improperly stored” at his Wilmington home. He said the discovery of the documents raises questions about “who may have reviewed or had access to classified information.”

“President Biden’s mishandling of classified materials raises the issue of whether he has jeopardized our national security. Without a list of individuals who have visited his residence, the American people will never know who had access to these highly sensitive documents,” Comer wrote in a letter to Klain. “The committee demands transparency into whether any individuals with foreign connections to the Biden family gained access to President Biden’s residence and the classified documents that he has mishandled for years.”

Why did Comer send the letter to Klain? Comer holds Klain accountable as Chief of Staff. He describes him as head of the Executive Office of the President and he bears responsibility to be transparent with Americans on important issues related to the White House. The letter spells out Comer’s concerns about the mishandling of the sensitive documents and the involvement of Biden’s personal lawyers searching for classified documents. They are doing what is in the best interests of their client, Joe Biden, not the American people.

President Biden’s mishandling of classified materials raises the issue of whether he has jeopardized our national security. Without a list of individuals who have visited his residence, the American people will never know who had access to these highly sensitive documents. The Committee demands transparency into whether any individuals with foreign connections to the Biden family gained access to President Biden’s residence and the classified documents that he has mishandled for years. The Committee is also concerned White House aides and President Biden’s personal attorneys searched the Wilmington residence knowing that the Department of Justice was already investigating the matter. Personal lawyers for the President first discovered classified documents at the Penn Biden Center on November 2, 2022.2 The National Archives informed the Department of Justice of President Biden’s improper storage of documents on November 4, 2022.3 On November 14, 2022, Attorney General Merrick Garland tasked U.S. Attorney John Lausch with reviewing whether a special counsel should be appointed.4 Despite the Department
of Justice initiating its review of the matter, reports indicate that White House staff and President Biden’s attorneys continued searching his property.
5 Only on December 20, 2022—over one month after Mr. Lausch began his review—did the President’s personal lawyers notify Mr. Lausch of additional classified documents that were found at the President’s Wilmington residence.6

It goes on with the timeline to date. The point is that people with solely the president’s best interests at heart are searching for and producing the documents. It’s a drip, drip, drip process. Why isn’t the FBI being sent in to conduct searches, as they did at Mar-a-Lago? That’s their job. Biden’s attorneys should not be given sole access to whatever is in his garage or house or “think tank.”

Comer wants the visitor logs for the Wilmington house beginning January 20, 2021, and all the documents and communications related to the searches conducted at the homes and other locations by his aides for classified government documents. And, he wants the identity of the aides who performed the searches. Biden’s lawyers also searched the Rehoboth Beach house for government documents. Allegedly, no documents have been found there.

All of this is an embarrassment to the Biden administration and Biden himself. Biden was quick to slam Trump for having sensitive documents in his possession at Mar-a-Lago, behind a locked door. Biden now wants to point to his locked garage as proof that the documents were secure at his home. That doesn’t fly.

This morning, Fox News Channel’s Peter Doocy, White House correspondent reports that he is being told that there are no visitor logs chronicling who comes and goes at Biden’s personal residences. The White House is leaning on the fact that they print out White House visitor logs on a regular basis, pointing out that the Trump administration did not.