MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” host Joe Scarborough said Monday that the Biden administration is botching its handling of the document story amid transparency calls from various media outlets.
Several classified documents belonging to President Joe Biden have been found at multiple non-secure locations. At least five additional pages were discovered in Biden’s Delaware home on Saturday. The initial batch of documents were found on Nov. 2 but the public was only recently made aware of them.
“Well, since November, when they first started discovering these documents and you know, they keep, you know, they’ll have a press conference and say, ‘Well, we really – we think that’s it. We don’t think there are anymore.’ They don’t know. They haven’t known what’s happened here. I guess, again, transparency I think works best for the Biden administration and works best for Biden himself, because they find the documents, they reported immediately, a far different situation than Donald Trump’s,” Scarborough said.
“It’s very clear to see politically and legally that there is a huge difference in the two cases,” he continued. “And yet, Biden’s own worst enemy has been the way Biden’s staff and the way the Biden team has run this. What’s going on?”
Scarborough said the administration has been “stumbling and bumbling” around.
“At this stage, we’re two months in. They need to clean this up. They need to get, you know, amateur hour is over. They need complete transparency, and they just mishandled it from day one because I’m only saying it because it’s true.”
Others have also questioned the lack of transparency surrounding the documents. (RELATED: ‘They Want To Disable Oversight’: Vince Coglianese Breaks Down ‘Stunt’ Story About Biden And Secret Documents)
CBS’ Errol Barnett and Lana Zak called out press sec. Karine Jean-Pierre on Thursday for avoiding answering any specifics about the classified documents.
“She has not answered a single question, outside of a prewritten statement by the president’s lawyers,” Barnett said.
Zak chimed in, saying Jean-Pierre continues to “say the same thing again and again … even in response to very simple questions about the timeline, about the specific location, clarifying questions, and continuing to use the word ‘transparent’ and saying that they did things in a transparent manner.”
CBS White House reporter Ed O’Keefe also questioned the administration about the lack of transparency, with Jean-Pierre saying she should not “go beyond what the president laid out.”
Newsmax’s James Rosen also questioned Jean-Pierre on Thursday, asking why the administration waited months to inform the public that classified documents were found prior to the midterms.