McCarthy's comments were in reference to classified documents from the Obama administration found in President Joe Biden's home garage earlier this year. Biden, like Mike Pence who also found classified documents in his possession after leaving the White House, has cooperated with government efforts to retrieve them. Trump definitively has not, and was actively involved in both removing the documents from the White House, and in showing them to an array of individuals without government clearance.

Beyond the marked differences between Trump and other former White House occupants, the comparison between a garage door and bathroom door itself is obviously meaningless. If it needs to be spelled out: Bathroom doors generally lock with a simple click from the inside. Anyone who might have had a vested interest in taking a peep at a CIA or NSA document wouldn't have too much trouble getting through a bathroom door. Garage doors may actually be a degree more secure, but you don't see Hakeem Jeffries making the comparison McCarthy is anyhow--because it's dumb!

McCarthy's remarks followed similarly sophomoric ones from Senator Lindsey Graham. Some seven years after warning "if we nominate Trump, we will get destroyed ... and we will deserve it," Graham took to the Sunday show circuit to snarl and stutter at ABC's George Stephanopoulos, refusing to definitively say it was wrong for Trump to take and hide secret government documents.