McCarthy: Biden document discovery is proof Dems ‘overplayed their hand’ on Trump

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy said Democrats “overplayed their hand” in how they criticized former President Donald Trump for keeping classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago Florida resort in light of a report that sensitive records were found at a DC institute where President Biden once had an office. 

“I just think it goes to prove what they tried to do to President Trump overplayed their hand on that,” McCarthy told reporters on Monday after the news broke about the documents discovered at the Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement.

“They’ve been around even longer,” McCarthy said, referring to Biden’s staffers. “President Trump had never been in office before and had just left, came out. Here’s an individual who spent his last 40 years in office.”

“It just shows that they were trying to be political with President Trump,” he added.

McCarthy reacted incredulously when asked by reporters about the differences in the two cases because Biden’s lawyers “immediately” turned the documents over to government officials.