Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas) on Tuesday called on the FBI to investigate Joe Biden’s son based on classified documents found in the president’s home in Delaware and suggested seconds later that it was no problem that there was also sensitive documents had been found with the former vice president. President Mike Pence’s home in Indiana.
“The FBI has to search the University of Delaware records, and they have to search Hunter Biden’s home and business address,” Cruz said during an appearance on Fox Business Network’s “Kudlow.”
Host Larry Kudlow then asked him about the classified documents discovered last week at Pence’s home near Indianapolis. Cruz didn’t seem too concerned about that.
“Oh look, the Mike Pence story—it’s early days,” Cruz said. “He’s a good friend and a good man. He explained where these came from.”
The White House has been under fire since it was revealed that Biden’s lawyers found classified documents and official documents on four separate occasions between November 2 and December 20 in the offices of the Penn Biden Center in Washington and Biden’s home.
Biden donated his sealed senate files to the University of Delaware in 2012. Cruz has repeatedly called on the Justice Department to search those papers. However, the university has said only Biden and his deputies will have access to the papers for up to two years after he leaves public office.
The Justice Department has appointed a special prosecutor to investigate the case.
Tuesday came the news that Pence had also mishandled sensitive material. According to Pence’s attorney, “a small number of documents with classified markings” were found last week at the home of Donald Trump’s vice president.
In either case, there is no indication that they were aware of the documents’ presence, and it appears that the documents were handed over within days of their discovery.
The two developments stand in stark contrast to how former President Trump refused months of repeated requests from the National Archives to return classified material found at his Florida Mar-a-Lago estate after he left office. . Since his departure in January 2021, about 300 classified documents have been recovered from Trump’s property.
After the FBI raided Mar-a-Lago on Aug. 8, Cruz called it a politically motivated “fishing expedition.”
