The Saga of the Biden Docudrama Continues

Secret Service personnel park vehicles in the driveway leading to U.S. President Joe Biden's house after classified documents were found there by Biden's lawyers, in Wilmington, Del., on Jan. 15, 2023. Joshua Roberts/Reuters

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What’s in a name?

That which we call an “item” by any other name would smell as foul.

Last weekend, the world woke up to discover that the FBI, during a 13-hour search, discovered “an additional six items with classified material” in President Joe Biden’s Wilmington, Delaware, home.

“Items.”

That has been reported by some outlets as “six documents.”

But that isn’t what the official announcement said.

It said “six items.”

As Mollie Hemingway asked in a tweet, were “the ‘six items’ trunks, boxes, or folders?”

I wonder myself. Hemingway said that the announcement involved a “very curious language choice from [the] Biden team.”

“Curious,” possibly, but “careful” for sure.

This is the fourth lode or cache or midden we’ve been told about that contained classified material in Biden’s possession.

And note that the latest find includes classified material that goes back to Biden’s days in the U.S. Senate.

Not everyone knows that Biden is a student of Gertrude Stein.

But maybe he is. After all, he just insisted that the continuing revelations of classified documents in his possession are like Oakland, according to Stein.

There’s “no there, there,” he insisted at a press conference on Jan. 19.

The documents in his Penn Biden Center (a think tank under the auspices of the University of Pennsylvania) office in Washington, in his garage at home, and elsewhere in his home were just “filed in the wrong place.”

Oh. I see.

What about the latest cache?

Biden keeps saying he takes handling classified materials “very seriously.”

Asked in September 2022 about the classified materials found in the course of an FBI raid on former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago in August 2022, Biden said he couldn’t understand how anyone could be “that irresponsible.”

That was then.

Now, it’s “there’s no there, there.”

Naturally, there will be no FBI SWAT teams raiding Biden’s home. No handcuffs or strip searches for the president, as there was for Trump aide Peter Navarro.

After all, the FBI has gradually morphed into the Democrats’ praetorian guard, not to say its personal Gestapo.

There’s one way that people such as Steve Bannon, Roger Stone, Peter Navarro, John Eastman, Jeffrey Clark, Donald Trump, and anyone who even looked at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, get treated, and quite another way that the protected class of the Democratic nomenklatura are treated.

This isn’t to say that the long-running mini-series of revelations about Biden’s mishandling of classified documents won’t hurt him politically.

It will.

That flapping, rustling sound you hear in the gloaming is the sound of the Biden chickens coming home to roost.

Remember Tony Bobulinski? He’s Hunter Biden’s former business partner who was columnated by the press when he came forward to reveal that he had allegedly met twice with Joe and Hunter to discuss details of their business dealings.

Joe gave “his word as a Biden” that he never had anything to do with Hunter’s business dealings.

But he allegedly did.

During a debate with Trump during the 2020 presidential race, Joe Biden insisted that Antifa was “an idea, not an organization,” not a militia.

That summer, that “idea” was busy rioting and burning things in cities across the country.

Now, they’re back, this time in Atlanta.

On Jan. 21, black-clad Antifa members smashed storefronts and torched a police car. At least six were arrested.

Kinetic work for an “idea.”

Earlier in this space, I quoted the commentator Scott Johnson who speculated that reality, in the shape of all those classified documents, meant that Biden was “toast.”

On alternate Tuesdays, I think so myself. The contradictions, the confusion, the brazenness and cack-handedness, keep accumulating.

As I noted in that earlier column, I think these revelations will diminish Biden’s chances of winning the Democratic nomination for the 2024 presidential race.

I also think they will diminish the chances of the Democrats winning the race, no matter whom they run.

But all that is a long way off. For now, the saga of Biden’s classified documents is still in the entertaining phase.

Maybe Netflix or HBO will take up the video rights.

Views expressed in this article are opinions of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of The Epoch Times.