'The View' host declares Biden document scandal 'huge win for Trump,' 'kills' Mar-a-Lago case
Alyssa Farah Griffin said it was now 'very hard to make the case that Donald Trump should be indicted' over having classified documents
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}"The View" co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin declared the discovery of classified documents at the Penn Biden Center was a "huge win" for Donald Trump and said it "kills" the Mar-a-Lago case.
"Absolutely no one's going to like this take, but I'm going to go there anyway," Farah Griffin, a former Trump administration aide, began. "I want to be clear the facts are different then the Trump case, however I think this is a huge win for Trump. Because if you're Merrick Garland, who is already extremely cautious and doesn't want to break the longstanding precedent of not indicting a president, it's very hard to make the case that Donald Trump should be indicted for this, even though the facts are different, when he can argue, ‘well, now the vice president also took home classified documents.’ I think this kills the case."
Co-host Sunny Hostin disagreed and said, "facts matter," insisting that Biden and Trump's cases were not comparable.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Hostin said Trump had "top-secret classified information including things that would put people’s lives in danger including nuclear documents and there were 300 documents found."
Alyssa Farah Griffin and Sunny Hostin on "The View." (Screenshot/ABC/TheView)
"That's like comparing apples to orangutans," she said.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Farah Griffin said that the legal standard was not "where" the classified documents were kept.
"That doesn't legally change the fact that you did not transport them securely," she said. She also played a clip of President Biden responding to the documents found at Mar-a-Lago.
"How that could possibly happen, how one anyone could be that irresponsible?" Biden said during an interview, reacting to the documents found at Mar-a-Lago. "And I thought what data was in there that may compromise sources and methods. By that, I mean, names of people helped or et cetera."
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}President Joe Biden departs from Holy Spirit Catholic Church on St. Johns Island, South Carolina, Aug. 13, 2022. (Reuters/Joshua Roberts)
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Records from Biden's time as vice president and a "small number of documents with classified markings" were found on Monday at the Penn Biden Center in a locked closet as people were preparing to vacate the office space, the White House announced.
Co-host Sara Haines agreed with Farah Griffin and said the discovery of these documents was not going to help the case against Trump.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Former President Donald Trump speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) on Aug. 06, 2022, in Dallas, Texas. (Brandon Bell/Getty Images)
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Co-host Whoopi Goldberg said toward the end of the segment that it wasn't known if the documents found at Biden's think tank were actually "classified."
Biden ignored questions about the classified documents on Monday.