Will Saletan: “Biden is completely wrong. The ‘no there there’ defense doesn’t distinguish him from Trump. It makes the two cases look alike. It positions Biden, like Trump, as a denier of obvious reality. Biden shouldn’t have had classified records in his home, his garage, or other unauthorized locations. But he did.”
“The correct defense of Biden is that his infraction is different from Trump’s. What was ‘there’ at Biden’s home was improperly stored classified material. What wasn’t there, as far as we know, was evidence of any effort to prevent classified material from being found and returned. The latter is what prompted the court-authorized FBI search of Mar-a-Lago: months of Trump’s attempts to obstruct recovery of documents he had wrongly retained.”
“Biden needs to stop pretending there’s nothing there. He needs to speak frankly about what is there.”
