“Mr. President, are you sure there are no other classified documents?” » Monday, January 16, in the morning, the journalist may have shouted, hands in megaphone, Joe Biden crossed the lawn in a hurry to the White House, royally ignoring the reporters massed behind the barriers. Embarrassment has reigned in Washington since the presidency confirmed on January 9 after revelations from CBS Newsthat classified documents, some of which were stamped “top secret”, had been discovered in private offices and at the home of Joe Biden… when they should have been at the National Archives, responsible for keeping this type of information.
The year had started well for the American president. His popularity rating, although still mediocre, was however up, to 44%, the highest for more than a year. Inflation slowed down a little, 6.5% in December 2022 against 7.1% in November. Despite the loss of the majority in the House of Representatives, he had saved the Senate in extremis from Republican clutches in the mid-term elections.
The Democrats had just feasted on the distressing spectacle given by the elected representatives of the Grand Old Party (GOP, nickname of the Republican Party) in the lower house of Congress, who displayed their divisions in broad daylight by tearing themselves apart during the chaotic election. of their colleague Kevin McCarthy in the chair of “speaker” (president). And Donald Trump, the only declared candidate of the Republican camp for the race to
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