Biden Team Broke First Rule Of Crisis Communications On Classified Documents, Experts Say

 

Biden Team Broke First Rule Of Crisis Communications On Classified Documents, Experts Say

President Joe Biden's classified documents scandal could have been a one-week story, experts say, rather than the dragged-out saga it has become amid a steady drip of revelations.

"People in the public eye should always confront bad news head-on," said Jeffrey McCall, a communications professor at DePauw University. "This could have been a story with a very short lifespan. Instead, the drip, drip, drip and refusal to explain the situation, let alone express regret, has led to understandable, continued suspicion amongst the public and the media that there are broader implications to this mess."

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The controversy dates to Nov. 2, when classified documents were found at the Penn Biden Center think tank in Washington, D.C. But the public didn't learn about that until it was leaked to the media more than two months later, and a series of leaks has kept the story in the spotlight since then.

Experts previously told the Washington Examiner that the Biden administration should have had all of Biden's homes and office space searched immediately after that first document was found. Instead, his Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, house wasn't searched until this week, and the White House will not say whether all searches have been completed even now.