EXCLUSIVE:\u00a0The White House on Monday blasted House Republicans for launching “hypocritical”\u2002investigations\u00a0into President Biden\u2019s improper retention of classified records, and accused the GOP of “politicizing” the matter while defending Biden’s cooperation with the special counsel probe.
\n“House Republicans are playing politics in a shamelessly hypocritical attempt to attack President Biden,” White House spokesman Ian Sams told Fox News Digital.
\nThe White House\u2019s comments came after it was revealed that\u2002classified records\u00a0were found inside the Washington D.C., offices of the Penn Biden Center think tank on Nov. 2, 2022, but only revealed to the public last week. A second stash of classified documents were found last week inside the garage of the president\u2019s Wilmington, Delaware, home, prompting Attorney General Merrick Garland to appoint a special counsel to investigate the matter.
\nOver the weekend, additional classified documents were found in the president\u2019s home.
\nOn Capitol Hill, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, notified the Justice Department of his investigation into the president\u2019s “mishandling” of classified records and the Justice Department\u2019s probe into the matter.\u00a0House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer,\u00a0R-Ky., is also investigating the matter, telling Fox News Digital on Monday that he will “continue to press” the Biden administration for answers about who had access to the classified documents.
\nBut on Monday, the White House fired back and accused House Republicans of launching political investigations, while urging the public to be skeptical of those efforts.
\n“House Republicans have no credibility,” Sams said. “Their demands should be met with skepticism and they should face questions themselves about why they are politicizing this issue and admitting they actually do not care about the underlying classified material.”
\nSams was referring to comments made by Comer to CNN on Sunday, in which he said his “biggest concern isn’t the classified documents,” but rather “how there\u2019s such a discrepancy in how former President Trump was treated” during the FBI\u2019s unprecedented raid on Mar-a-Lago.<\/p>\n