Jim Jordan Shoots White House in Biden Papers Fight: Republicans Want ‘Fair’ Treatment

House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan, Ohio, on Monday dismissed the White House’s criticism of Republicans. investigation classified documents in the home and former office of President Joe Biden, and he accused the Biden White House of double standards when it comes to oversight.

“Why was President Trump’s house searched and not President Biden’s house?” Jordan asked in a statement released to Fox News Digital. “Why did the FBI photograph the so-called classified documents of President Trump and not President Biden? Republicans just want fair and equal treatment under the law.”

Jordan notified the Justice Department last week that he was launching an investigation into the President’s “mishandling” of classified records and a Justice Department investigation into the matter. House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., is also investigating the matter, and on Monday he told Fox News Digital that he will “continue to press” the Biden administration for answers about who had access to the classified documents.

JIM JORDAN STARTS FIRST INVESTIGATION AS CHAIRMAN OF JUDICIAL SITUATION IN BIDEN X-PASS SCANDAL

NO LOGS OF VISITORS OF BIDEN HOUSE IN WILMINGTON, LOCATION OF CLASSIFIED DOCUMENTS DISCOVERED, WH OFFICE SAYS

On Monday, White House spokesman Ian Sams told Fox News Digital that House Republicans “are not credible” to complain about Biden because they were soft on former President Donald Trump after being at his house last summer. secret documents were found in Florida.

“Their claims should be treated with skepticism and they themselves should be confronted with questions about why they are politicizing this issue and admitting that they don’t really care about the secret material behind it,” Sams said.

President Biden arrives at the Delaware Air National Guard Base in New Castle, Delaware, December 15, 2022.
(AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

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The White House has faced scrutiny from both sides after it was revealed that secret records were discovered in the Washington, D.C. offices of the Penn Biden Center think tank on November 2, 2022, but only made public last week.

A second cache of classified documents was discovered last week in the president’s garage in Wilmington, Delaware, where he keeps his corvette, prompting Attorney General Merrick Garland to appoint a special counsel to investigate the case. And at the end of last week, the third batch of secret documents was discovered.

Joe Biden drives his Corvette into a garage in a campaign video released August 5, 2020.
(Joe Biden for President)

The White House Attorney’s Office on Monday released a statement saying visitor logs to the president’s private home in Wilmington, Delaware, are missing after House Republican lawmakers asked for the information to be made public.

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“Like every president in decades of modern history, his private residence is private,” Fox News Digital’s White House Counsel’s office said in a statement Monday. “But upon taking office, President Biden restored the norm and tradition of keeping White House visitor logs, including publishing them regularly, after the previous administration abolished them.”

Brooke Singman of Fox News Digital, Kelly Laco, Anders Hagstrom, and Peter Doucy of Fox News contributed to this report.