After Democrats literally made a federal case out of President Trump having documents marked “classified” at Mar-A-Lago (seized in an outrageous and unprecedented raid on a former President’s home), it was reported Monday that a batch of documents from Joe Biden’s time as Vice President, including classified documents, had been found in the offices of the Penn Biden Center, a pro-Biden think tank.

Yes, that would be the same Joe Biden who excoriated Trump (“How could anyone be so irresponsible?”) for having those documents in his home, where they were guarded by both private security and the Secret Service, and not in some office where anyone could access them. Incidentally, this was known several days before the November elections, yet we’re just now hearing about it. Hmmm…

Spinning the Story

It’s been quite entertaining to watch liberal talking heads who wanted Trump put in the electric chair for mishandling classified documents (none of which turned out to be anything particularly important, at least as far it’s been reported) now do a U-turn and either ignore this story completely or else offer excuse after excuse for why this is totally, totally different from that horrible Trump scandal. Bonchie at Redstate.com has some fun pointing out their situational ethics.

I’ll help them by pointing out a real difference: Trump was President and had the unquestionable power to declassify any documents he wanted. Biden was Vice President and could only declassify documents from his own office or those he classified himself.

NARA’s Double Standard

Margot Cleveland at The Federalist also points out a key difference, but it’s not one that will help Biden’s case: National Archives bureaucrats worked with Obama and Biden to let them keep their documents in locations chosen by them while deliberately targeting Trump for doing the same.

Stay Tuned

With Republicans demanding to know when the FBI is going to stage a raid of Biden’s various homes and offices to search for classified documents, Attorney General Merrick Garland put a Trump-appointed U.S. attorney in charge of investigating the Biden documents. Do I expect anything at all to come of this? No. But it just became a lot harder for the Biden DOJ to trump up that nothingburger of a case against Trump without facing charges of not only being political enforcers but also gigantic hypocrites.

Related: Trump weighs in on the excuses being made for Biden, and Rep. James Comer, the new Chair of the House Oversight Committee, says he will be looking into it as well (just in case the DOJ is thinking about sweeping this under the rug).

Mike Huckabee is the former governor of Arkansas and longtime conservative commentator on issues in culture and current events. A New York Times best-selling author, he hosts the weekly talk show Huckabee on TBN.

Originally published at MikeHuckabee.com. Reprinted with permission.