Just when it looked like the House Republicans were on the ropes, relentlessly wounded by their own made-for-TV infighting and backstabbing and the George Santos of it all, a new political lifeline emerged today in the form of the discovery of a set of classified files languishing in Joe Biden’s Delaware garage, beside his Corvette, from his tenure as vice president. This might not have been a new Benghazi, or even on par with Trump’s refusal to hand back his classified files, but the boxes include documents on Ukraine, Iran, and the U.K. And since Biden chastised Trump for a similar sin, this is enough to create a political shitstorm. (Unlike Trump, Biden is cooperating with the National Archives and the Justice Department.) 

This afternoon, as everyone reading this well knows, Attorney General Merrick Garland appointed Robert K. Hur, who was appointed by Trump as a U.S. attorney and formerly worked under F.B.I. director Chris Wray at King & Spalding and at the D.O.J., as special counsel. Biden attempted to assuage the rapidly metastasizing imbroglio, but seemed to only make it worse. “By the way, my Corvette is in a locked garage. It’s not like it’s sitting out in the street,” he told Fox’s Peter Doocy in the briefing room.