Over the weekend, Biden’s team insisted that visitor logs for his home in Delaware – where he kept classified documents in multiple rooms for multiple years – don’t exist because “his personal residence is personal.” That contradicts what the administration has been saying for months.
Biden has spent 40% of his presidency on vacation. But when criticized, how does his administration respond? They claim that anywhere Biden goes is a work space.
- Andrew Bates, October 2022: “Presidents of the United States are constantly on the job, regardless of their location – whether they’re on a state visit overseas or just 100 miles from the White House for a short trip to Wilmington, DE.”
- Karine Jean-Pierre, September 2022: “As it relates to trips that he’s made to Delaware: Look, the way we see that is the President could be President anywhere. He can — he can work from the Residence. He can work from the Oval Office. He can work from Delaware. And that is — that is the work — that is what he’s able to do as President of the United States.”
- Jen Psaki, November 2021: “You are President no matter where you are. He will conduct his work from wherever he is, on any vacation, on any time he is in Delaware, at Camp David, or wherever he may be spending time with his loved ones. He has secure phone capabilities. He has staff traveling with him.”
- Jen Psaki, August 2021: “Every President is always working, no matter where they are. Right? That’s always how it works….Even as he goes to Delaware or Camp David, he will of course still be working.”
So was he working or was it personal? Biden can’t have it both ways. It’s yet another in a series of contradictions and hypocrisies around GarageGate. One has to wonder, what is Biden hiding?
