McCarthy confronts reporters' bias by asking the questions they refuse to ask Biden: 'Has anyone answered that question?'

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy embarrassed the media on Tuesday for not asking questions about President Joe Biden's document scandal.

During a gaggle with reporters in the Capitol, McCarthy interrogated the media with pertinent questions that journalists should be asking about Biden's unlawful retention of classified documents.

"Has anyone ever asked the current president why would he have a classified document outside of the SCIF from his Senate days? Has he ever been confronted with that question?" McCarthy asked the reporters.

A "SCIF," otherwise known as a sensitive compartmented information facility, is a secured area for viewing highly sensitive classified information. The SCIF is designed to protect the information and the sources and methods underneath it and to control access to it.

Biden reportedly had documents stashed at the Penn Biden Center with "SCI" markings, meaning they should only have been viewed in a SCIF and never have been removed.

"I haven't had you ask me one question about the current president having classified documents. I haven't had you ask me one question about why the current president, as a senator, why he would even have a classified document. Does that raise any questions to you?" McCarthy went on to ask the reporters.

One of the reporters tried to challenge McCarthy, defending Biden by claiming Biden turned over the documents. That's true, but Biden's attorneys have played coy about details, and the documents were only found after classified documents were discovered at Mar-a-Lago, McCarthy noted.

"I've always said equal justice," he said. "So my question back to you is: Is it equal or fair? Have you ever asked the question to the current president, 'As a senator, why would you even have that document outside of the SCIF?'"

"Has anyone answered that question?" McCarthy asked again.

McCarthy's consternation boils down to the fact that many of the alleged facts in the Trump indictment could be read as if they apply to Biden.

"I read the indictment. ... If you read the first dozen pages of this indictment, almost everything in there could be applied to Joe Biden," commentator Marc Thiessen explained Tuesday on Fox News.

Thiessen read directly from the indictment to prove his point:

"Trump was not authorized to possess or retain those classified documents." Biden was not authorized to have the ones that he had at the Penn Biden Center or his home. "The Mar-a-Lago club was not an authorized location for storage, possession, review, or discussion of classified documents." Neither was the Penn Biden Center or Joe Biden's garage.

"The Mar-a-Lago club hosted more than 150 social events." Well, the Penn Biden Center — they had classes with international students, and they had a joint program with the Japanese government, they had foreign nationals; it was Antony Blinken's office where he was greeting foreign visitors all the time. That was dangerous.

"Trump caused his boxes containing hundreds of classified documents to be transported from the White House to the Mar-a-Lago Club." Joe Biden caused documents to be transported to his home and to the Penn Biden Center.

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