Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) on Tuesday asked the FBI to investigate Joe Biden’s son over classified documents found in the president’s Delaware home, then seconds later suggested it was no big deal that sensitive documents were found in the first vice. President Mike Pence’s home in Indiana.
“The FBI needs to search the University of Delaware files and they need to search Hunter Biden’s home and work addresses,” Cruz said during an appearance on Fox Business Network’s “Kudlow.”
Host Larry Kudlow then asked him about classified documents discovered at Pence’s home near Indianapolis last week. Cruz didn’t seem too concerned about that.
“Oh, look, the Mike Pence story — it’s still early,” Cruz said. “He is a good friend and a good man. He explained where they came from.”
The White House has come under fire since revealing that Biden’s lawyers found confidential documents and official documents on four separate occasions between Nov. 2 and Dec. 20 at the Penn Biden Center offices in Washington and at Biden’s home.
Biden donated his sealed Senate documents to the University of Delaware in 2012. Cruz has repeatedly asked the Justice Department to seek those documents. However, the university said only Biden and his appointees have access to the documents until two years after they leave public office.
The Justice Department has appointed a special prosecutor to look into the matter.
News broke Tuesday that Pence had also mishandled sensitive materials. According to Pence’s lawyer, “a small number of documents bearing classified markings” were found in Vice President Donald Trump’s home last week.
In both cases, there is no indication that they were aware of the recordings’ presence, and it appears that the recordings were handed over within days of their discovery.
The two developments contrast with how former President Trump has for months refused repeated requests from the National Archives to return classified material to his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida after he leaves office. About 300 confidential documents have been recovered from Trump’s properties since he left office in January 2021.
After the FBI raided Mar-a-Lago on Aug. 8, Cruz called it a politically motivated “fishing expedition.”
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