The GOP’s Misplaced Glee Over Biden’s Document Debacle

‘Tu quoque’ — you also — has always been a favorite rhetorical device of those who are not quite certain of their own innocence or moral probity.

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Attorney General Garland, January 12, 2023, at Washington, D.C. AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta

The glee with which the Republicans learned of President Biden’s unauthorized possession of classified documents is all too understandable. Mr. Biden seems now to be in a position not very dissimilar from that of his predecessor, President Trump. 

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