Why is there an empty picture frame behind the Resolute Desk in Joe Biden’s Oval Office? David Friedman found out.
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When leaving the White House, everybody takes home some souvenir secret documents. It seems like that, anyway. Trump had 300. Ex-VP Biden had a few. Now it turns out that ex-Veep Mike Pence had some back home in Indiana, too. It’s a questionable hobby.
The federal government began the modern system of document classification in 1951, updating it in 1953 and 2009. Maybe the FBI also needs to search the homes of Harry Truman, Alben Barkley, Ike, Nixon, JFK, LBJ, Hubert Humphrey, Spiro Agnew, Gerald Ford, Nelson Rockefeller, Jimmy Carter, Walter Mondale, Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush, Dan Quayle, Bill Clinton, Al Gore, George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, and Barack Obama.
Kamala Harris, take heed.
More:
“Trump Angrily Orders Pence to Return All Classified Documents to Mar-a-Lago,” Andy Borowitz, The New Yorker
Updates:
See? We told you.
“Classified records pose conundrum stretching back to Carter,” Zeke Miller, Farnoush Amiri, Colleen Long, and Jill Colvin, Associated Press
“US National Archives asks ex-presidents to check for classified papers,” Hugo Lowell, The Guardian
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“In an employment trend that industry leaders are calling ‘dire,’ thousands of Presidential fact checkers have been laid off during Joe Biden’s first hundred days in office.
Harland Dorrinson, the executive director of the American Society of Presidential Fact Checkers, said that Biden has single-handedly destroyed the employment picture for many of the group’s members.
‘Over the past three months, America’s Presidential-falsehood infrastructure has all but collapsed,’ Dorrinson said. ‘We have not experienced such a devastating downturn since Richard M. Nixon left office, in 1974.’”
— “Thousands of Presidential Fact Checkers Laid Off in Biden’s First Hundred Days,” Andy Borowitz, The New Yorker
But serously, folks:
“What it’s been like fact-checking Joe Biden through 100 days,” Daniel Dale, CNN
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Given Donald Trump‘s penchant for holding super-spreading events in the executive mansion, the White House will be thoroughly disinfected before the Biden administration enters it. Too bad exorcists are not on the GSA procurement schedule.
More:
“Biden will have White House disinfected after Trump leaves,” Joseph Guzman The Hill
“Biden to Have White House Disinfected After Trump Moves Out,” J. Clara Chan, The Wrap
“As Biden Gets Sworn In, White House Will Get Scrubbed Down,” Phil Galewitz, Kaiser Health News
Related:
“Misting the White House between administrations won’t kill Covid-19 — and it could be harmful, experts say,” Kate Sheridan, STAT
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As the 2020 presidential election results trickle in, Biden voters across the nation are celebrating, even during this pandemic. If you’re a Biden supporter in COVID-19 lockdown, Jack Yellen and Milton Ager wrote a tune for you, rendered here by Mitch Miller & The Gang. Dig that crazy accordion. Everybody sing along!
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Arizona’s Kristin Urquiza explains her choice in November.
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Vice President Jospeh Biden stunned a Syracuse audience Sunday with his stinging insults to President Obama’s dog.
“My dog is smarter than Bo,” said Mr. Biden, comparing his own puppy, Champ, to the Chief Executive’s Portuguese Water Dog, official First Dog of the entire United States of America.
The influential audience of 5th graders at Bellevue Elementary School was clearly shocked.
“Bo’s a beautiful dog too,” the Vice President added, realizing his gaffe.
But it’s on video.
Woof!
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