Biden classified documents story lights up social media: 'Watch how fast this disappears'

Twitter users pounced on the news revealing that President Biden’s personal attorneys discovered a "small number of documents with classified markings" in a locked closet at the Penn Biden Center on Nov. 2.

According to the attorneys, the documents were found after they planned to vacate the office space, and the National Archives soon took possession of them on Nov. 3. Special counsel to the White House Richard Saubel has since said that the president is cooperating with the Department of Justice over reviewing the matter.

Many people pointed out the similarities between this news and the FBI raid on former President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home last year when FBI seized approximately 300 classified documents. At the time, Biden called out Trump as "totally irresponsible" and questioned how this could happen in the U.S.

"How that could possibly happen? How anyone could be that irresponsible? And I thought what data was in there that would maybe compromise sources and methods?" Biden told 60 Minutes. "And it just — totally irresponsible."

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Conservative Twitter users quickly mocked the irony of the news as well as the contrast between the treatment of Biden and Trump.

"But... but... I was repeatedly assured that keeping classified documents in your private residence was an impeachable offense if not treason. Watch how fast this disappears," Hot Air writer Jazz Shaw tweeted.

"HOLY CRAP, @FBI, DID YOU GUYS SEE THIS?!?!? WHEN'S THE RAID AT BIDEN'S HOUSE?!?" Radio host Dan O’Donnell posted.

X Strategies senior digital strategist Greg Price similarly wrote, "SEND THE FBI. RAID IT IMMEDIATELY. JOE BIDEN STOLE SECRETS FROM OUR GOVERNMENT."

Washington Examiner writer Jerry Dunleavy tweeted, "objectively funny that Biden had some classified docs stashed away and everyone knows it."

"I'm not really impressed unless your classified is on a bootleg homebrew email server in a basement. Everything else is anticlimactic," American Commitment president Phil Kerpen wrote.

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By contrast, liberal Twitter users attacked the mainstream media’s reporting on the news, insisting that Trump’s example was far worse.

Writer Thor Benson tweeted, "Biden's people discovering a small number of classified documents and then immediately turning them in is not the same as Trump intentionally taking a large number of highly classified documents and then lying about it, but I'm guessing we're in for some dumb both sides nonsense."

"This tweet has big October 2016 energy," Rolling Stone digital director Lisa Tozzi wrote.

Podcast host Bob Cesca wrote, "The documents were immediately handed over to NARA and DOJ was informed. But good job suggesting a parallel to Trump's document theft. ‘Discovered and returned’ could've fit your tweet. Delete your account, CBS News. Pathetic."

LA Times columnist Harry Littman commented, "plenty of critical distinctions, but they won't stop McCarthy Jordan and the new Hit Squad from howling to the heavens...."

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Rep. James Comer, R-Ky., chairman of the House Oversight Committee, criticized the news as an example of a "two-tier" system of justice and announced plans by the committee to investigate the records.

NYC school principal appears to defend 'gay sex' book in library for middle-schoolers

A New York City Public School principal appeared to defend a sexually explicit novel remaining in the middle school library detailing gay sex acts to a concerned parent.

Booker T. Washington Middle School principal Elana Elster said in an e-mail shared by popular account "Libs of TikTok," that the novel, "This Book is Gay," was indeed in the middle school library and would remain so to let children explore "new and different" ideas, as well as "expand their horizons." 

"This Book is Gay" discusses orgies, kinks and sex apps. It includes detailed information on how to have anal and "girl on girl" sex, Fox News Digital first reported.

A passage of the book reads, "Let's talk about dildos: I think a lot of people assume that where there is no penis, a desperate sexual void is created, out of which something [bleep] shaped must ultimately slot in order to satisfy. I've only every slept with two women who enjoyed using dildos. I hate wearing a strap-on. I've only every done it once and NEVER AGAIN!"

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"NYC middle school principal confirms in an email that the school offers the pornographic book ‘This Book is Gay’ and have no plans of removing it. The book teaches kids about gay sex and encourages the use of sex apps. This is what they’re giving 12 yr olds to read," Libs of TikTok wrote with screenshots of the email and graphic images from the book.

In an e-mail to a parent, the New York City public school principal starts of the letter appearing sympathetic to their concerns that the book was inappropriate for children.

"As a parent, you have every right to monitor what your child is reading. Parents have very different opinions on what is appropriate for their children. Tell your child that you want to read certain books first to see if they are in keeping with your family values," the letter begins.

However, the principal went on to suggest the parent is sheltering their child from "new and different" ideas by objecting to the book.

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"When you say you are ‘at war everyday,’ I am wondering if you are referring to the exposure your child is getting to people and ideas that are new and different. This is a public school and the children will be continuously exposed. It doesn't mean that they will have to agree with everything they are learning or seeing. In fact, they will be taught to question, analyze, expand their horizons," the e-mail continues.

Ms. Elster said the book would remain in the library despite the concerns from the parent.

"We do have ‘This Book is Gay’ in our library catalogue, and we have no plans to remove it," she concluded the email.

Twitter users expressed outrage and disgust over both the principal's email and book content. Former conservative congressional candidate Courtney Geels asked, "I'd like to know if they have a Bible in the school library."

The NYC Department of Education and Elster did not respond to Fox News' Digital's request for comment.

"This Book is Gay" is one of several books with graphic, sexually explicit content found in public schools prompting outrage from parents.

Last fall, parents demanded a school district respond after a California teacher was found boasting of her "queer classroom library" that showed books detailing BDSM, fetishes and a kink social media networking site. 

Fox News' Hannah Grossman contributed to this report.

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