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New House Oversight Chair Clueless on How Trump’s Docs Mess Is Different<!-- wp:html --><p>CNN</p> <p>Rep. <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/gop-rep-james-comer-wants-to-cut-off-all-funding-for-border-security">James Comer</a> (R-KY) seemed unaware Sunday of the differences between the investigations into former President <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trumps-shortlist-of-vice-president-picks-all-have-one-thing-in-common">Donald Trump</a> and <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/manhattan-sunbathers-get-their-first-public-beach-but-no-swimming">then-Vice President Joe Biden’s</a> handling of <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/classified-documents-found-in-joe-bidens-home-garage-in-delaware">classified documents</a>, repeatedly using a TV appearance to cite information that even had the anchor seemingly confused.</p> <p>The newly minted chair of the House Oversight Committee appeared on CNN’s <em>State of the Union, </em>telling host <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/jake-tappers-ratings-deficient-cnn-primetime-show-to-end-after-midterms">Jake Tapper</a> that he wanted more information on who had access to documents found at Biden’s home in Wilmington, Delaware, and a personal office at Biden’s <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/classified-documents-from-joe-bidens-vice-presidency-found-at-penn-biden-center">former D.C. think-tank</a>.</p> <p>“My concern is that a special counsel was called for, but yet hours after that we still had the president’s personal attorneys, who have no security clearance, still rummaging around the president’s residence looking for things,” Comer said. “That would essentially be a crime scene, so to speak, after the appointment of a special counsel. So we have a lot of questions for the National Archives, we have a lot of questions for the Department of Justice, and hopefully we’ll be getting answers very soon.”</p> <p><a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/house-oversight-chair-james-comer-clueless-over-how-trumps-docs-mess-is-different?source=articles&via=rss">Read more at The Daily Beast.</a></p><!-- /wp:html -->

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Rep. James Comer (R-KY) seemed unaware Sunday of the differences between the investigations into former President Donald Trump and then-Vice President Joe Biden’s handling of classified documents, repeatedly using a TV appearance to cite information that even had the anchor seemingly confused.

The newly minted chair of the House Oversight Committee appeared on CNN’s State of the Union, telling host Jake Tapper that he wanted more information on who had access to documents found at Biden’s home in Wilmington, Delaware, and a personal office at Biden’s former D.C. think-tank.

“My concern is that a special counsel was called for, but yet hours after that we still had the president’s personal attorneys, who have no security clearance, still rummaging around the president’s residence looking for things,” Comer said. “That would essentially be a crime scene, so to speak, after the appointment of a special counsel. So we have a lot of questions for the National Archives, we have a lot of questions for the Department of Justice, and hopefully we’ll be getting answers very soon.”

Read more at The Daily Beast.

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