Former Vice President Mike Pence’s aides did not start sorting through papers and packing up until after January 6th, 2021, due to disgraced former President Trump’s insistence everyone pretend there was going to be a second term, CBS’s Robert Costa reports, citing two sources on why the Evangelical Christian houseplant ended up taking classified documents home to Indiana in 2021.
Costa adds the papers themselves appear to be mostly low-level shit, such as briefing materials for foreign trips, but this hasn’t been confirmed yet. Of course it would be surprising if Pence or Biden had actually held onto anything that would be of any particular value to bad actors or foreign adversaries. Or to be held hostage in exchange for cherry-picked “exonerating” evidence.