President Joe Biden claimed this week that the federal criminal investigation into him is different than the case into former President Donald Trump because there are different “degrees of irresponsibility.” Biden made the remarks during an ABC News interview with David Muir that aired on Friday.
“You and the former president are both now under investigation by the Justice Department for the discovery of these classified documents,” Muir said.
“I know that you believe these two cases are very different. But I do remember something you said after the discovery at Mar-a-Lago, you said, ‘I thought data that was in there may compromise sources and methods and names of people who help and it’s just totally irresponsible.’”
Muir then highlighted Biden’s reaction to the news last year that federal officials had found classified material in Trump’s possession.
“One word you used, when you hear about boxes in your garage or in your old office, you called the Trump discovery ‘irresponsible,’” Muir said. “Is there something irresponsible here though, too?”
“You know, you’re a good lawyer, but you’re trying to make a comparison. What, there’s degrees of irresponsibility, that are, they can be significant degrees of responsibility,” Biden claimed. “What, the way in which the boxes were packed up from my office, apparently, not everything was gone through as meticulously as it should have.”
“But there was no intention,” Biden claimed. “I opened up my home, all my homes. My homes, my home at the beach and the home, my permanent home. And they spent hours and hours going through everything, personal, everything I had. And that’s a fundamentally different thing. There’s nothing for me to hide.”