Docs Found At Pence's Home Anger Fox Hosts: ‘Now We Have to Show Both Sides!’
Yet not a single mention of trove of sensitive materials recovered from Mar-a-Lago
The news that classified documents were found at Mike Pence's home in Indiana is clearly displeasing on-camera personalities at Fox News.
The panel of Fox hosts apparently were irked because news that classified materials were found in the possession of the former Republican vice president takes the partisan glare off of what had become a growing scandal over classified documents in the unauthorized possession of President Biden. Host Greg Gutfield even going so far as to say, “Trump was right about Pence” — an apparent reference to Trump's disparagement of Pence for the way the VP handled the January 6, 2021, insurrection — before claiming to be joking.
And yet, at no time, did the Fox personalities mention the enormous cache of sensitive and top-secret materials which FBI agents recovered over the summer after executing a search warrant at Mar-a-Lago, the Florida home of Pence's erstwhile boss, Donald Trump.
Trump has been under criminal investigation for his hording of hundreds of documents while Attorney General Merrick Garland appointed a special counsel to look at the Biden matter.
Unlike Trump, Biden — like Pence, apparently — voluntarily turned over all unauthorized documents as soon as they were found.
Rather, the trio of Fox hosts — Gutfield, Jeanine Pirro and Jesse Watters — took turns roasting Pence for reporting the find, even going so far as suggesting that Pence should have destroyed the sensitive materials in his possession rather than turn them over to the FBI and the National Archives as he did.
Here's an excerpt of the discussion:
GUTFELD: “And in a major plot twist, former Vice President Mike Pence found classified documents at his home in Indiana last week and turned them over to the FBI. Jesse, so Trump was right about Pence. (Laughs) I’m joking.”
WATTERS: “I mean, Pence, seriously. We have this great thing going with Joe.”
GUTFELD: “Yeah, and he just ruined it!”
PIRRO: “He did!”
WATTERS: “Come on, man.”
GUTFELD: “Now what are we going to do?”
WATTERS: “And then he confessed to it. He could have just destroyed it. We never would have known.”
GUTFELD: “And we have to be fair and balanced and shot both sides!”
WATTERS: “I know. Now we have to show both sides! You know, Pence is so clean, squeaky clean. It’s nothing like the real bad documents that Joe Biden was squirreling away.”
GUTFELD: “Do you think he just wanted to be included?”
WATTERS: “He’s like, ‘Yeah, I’m running for president too! Investigate me! I looked at secret stuff!’”
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