Classified Docs Found at Pence's Home Will Take Heat Off Both President Biden & Trump

Today, it was revealed that about a dozen classified documents were found in the home of former Vice-President Mike Pence last week. 

As with President Biden, the disclosure was made by people representing Pence and he has been fully cooperative with the DOJ. 

Notwithstanding Pence's cooperation this news will benefit both Biden and defeated, former President Trump. 

It helps Biden because Pence both categorically denied ever taking classified documents into his possession after he left office and because of his criticisms of Biden in this matter. Pence told Fox News earlier this month:

The handling of classified materials...is a very serious matter, and as a former vice president of the United States, I can speak from personal experience about the attention that ought to be paid to those materials when you're in office and after you leave office. Clearly that did not take place in this case.

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Keep in mind that Pence has presidential aspirations of his own and now cannot credibly use Biden's transgressions concerning classified documents against him. 

Yet I think this also helps Trump. Yes, Trump has been both uncooperative in returning classified documents and was dishonest in claiming all classified materials had been returned. But Trump is utterly devoid of shame and he knows many voters will not see the distinction between what he did and what Biden and Pence did. They might acknowledge that Trump took documents and shouldn't have done so but they'll argue that Biden and Pence are no better than Trump in this respect.