Biden mocks Trump, scoffs ‘I’ve declassified everything in the world’
President Joe Biden on Friday mocked Donald Trump’s claim to have declassified all of the documents targeted in an FBI raid on his Florida estate earlier this month.
Biden — asked about his predecessor’s stance after a judge released a heavily redacted version of the feds’ affidavit seeking the search — scoffed to reporters, “I just want you to know I’ve declassified everything in the world.
“I’m president, I can do — c’mon,” Biden said as he was leaving the White House for the weekend.
Pressed further about the case, he quickly added, “I’m not going to comment because I don’t know the details.
“I don’t want to know,” Biden added.
The president had been asked to comment on Trump’s claim that expansive federal powers allowed him to declassify any government document he brought with him to his palatial home.
Biden’s sarcastic comment was the most substantive on the investigation that he’s made to date, as he and his staffers have insisted the Department of Justice raid is independent of the administration.
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre echoed that sentiment Friday at a regularly scheduled press conference.
“We feel that it is not appropriate for us to comment on this,” she said when asked about the allegations Trump improperly held on to classified documents after leaving the White House.
“This is an independent investigation that the Department of Justice is leading,” she asserted.
“That’s something that the president finds is an important thing to do — for the Department of Justice to have that independence. We’re just not going to comment.”
The former president’s Florida estate was searched earlier this month by an FBI team armed with a warrant seeking classified documents.
The 38-page affidavit shed light on some of the feds’ reasoning for the raid, including concerns that highly sensitive records were being retained at Mar-a-Lago illegally.
Jean-Pierre refused to address the concern.
“We are not going to comment on any underlying materials, any content that is related to an ongoing investigation,” she said.
“This is an independent investigation, a legal investigation that the Department of Justice has the independence to conduct, and we do not feel that it is appropriate for us to comment,” the spokeswoman added.
The decision to give the DOJ a wide berth comes amid Republican claims that federal law enforcement has been selective in its application of the law in favor of the Biden family.
Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley accused the Justice Department in July of downplaying “highly credible whistleblowers” in an effort to cover for President Biden’s scandal-scarred son, Hunter.
In an open letter to FBI Director Christopher Wray and Attorney General Merrick Garland, Grassley accused the DOJ and FBI of portraying alleged evidence of wrongdoing by Hunter Biden as “disinformation” — and shutting down a probe into the first son’s activities.
“Attorney General Garland and Director Wray, simply put, based on the allegations that I’ve received from numerous whistleblowers, you have systemic and existential problems within your agencies,” the ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee wrote.
Grassley demanded an investigation and release of any documents on the allegedly dismissed probes.
He insisted the allegations were so serious, they would prove — if confirmed — that both offices were “institutionally corrupted to their very core.”
Grassley’s allegations have not been independently verified by The Post.
