To hear Republicans react to reports that attorneys working for President Joe Biden had discovered — and promptly reported — the presence of documents bearing classification markings at a Washington DC think tank where he kept an office before launching his 2020 presidential campaign, Christmas came early in the new year.
Georgia Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, a staunch defender of former president Donald Trump, immediately took to right-wing host Tucker Carlson’s Fox News programme to declare that Attorney General Merrick Garland “should be impeached” if Mr Garland fails to treat Mr Biden the way Mr Trump was treated after he refused to return classified documents that he’d taken to his Florida home before leaving office.
