President-elect Donald Trump has argued for years that the legion of unelected bureaucrats within the federal government's "deep state" are partisan hacks biased against him, and that was just proven correct once again.

After years of resistance, the National Archives was finally forced by a lawsuit to hand over photos exposing President Joe Biden's repeated lies about not knowing of or being involved in his son Hunter Biden's business dealings with Chinese associates, Breitbart reported.

Contrast that with the National Archives' active role in instigating a federal criminal investigation against Trump for allegedly keeping government documents without authorization after leaving the White House.

National Archives tried to protect Biden

Last week, the Trump-allied America First Legal organization revealed that it had obtained dozens of official photos from the National Archives and Records Administration documenting then-Vice President Biden's meeting with some of son Hunter's Chinese business associates during a 2013 visit to Beijing.

Those photos were only released because of a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit filed in 2022, and were actually supposed to have been released in October, roughly two weeks before the election, but were conveniently delayed until more than a month after the election.

The photos exposed the oft-repeated and blatant lie from Biden and his allies that he never had any interactions with or knowledge of his son's foreign business associates, as they captured the moment that Hunter introduced his father to BHR CEO Jonathan Li and BHR Director and Managing Partner Ming Xue, among others.

Likewise, other released photos show then-VP Biden introducing his son to top Chinese officials, including President Xi Jinping and then-Vice President Li Yuanchao, among others.

"Even while President Biden has pardoned his son, Hunter, for anything and everything 'he has committed or may have committed or taken part in' going all the way back to the year 2014, more evidence comes out each day showing how his family leveraged Joe Biden’s even longer career in public office for private gain," AFL Counsel Michael Ding said. "America First Legal will not stop fighting to uncover the full story of the Biden Family’s corruption."

National Archives pressed for prosecution of Trump

Meanwhile, as the National Archives sat on those damning photos and fought against their release for years on behalf of President Biden, the federal agency pursued a decidedly different path regarding President-elect Trump over the past several years, Breitbart observed.

Consider a July report from The New York Times that detailed the timeline of events in Trump's now-dismissed classified documents criminal case and the integral role the National Archives played in that sordid affair.

Even before Trump had left office, the Archives were demanding he turn over all presidential records, and within months of his departure were already raising issues about certain documents that had not been transferred to their possession.

That pressure only increased over the ensuing months with public criticisms and threats of criminal referrals to the Justice Department if certain documents weren't delivered to the National Archives immediately -- threats which the agency finally made good on early in 2022.

Bureaucratic partisanship revealed

The National Archives' referrals to the DOJ ultimately sparked an FBI investigation that led to the August 2022 raid of Trump's Mar-a-Lago residence, the appointment of Special Counsel Jack Smith, and unprecedented criminal indictments that have since been dismissed.

Conversely, the Archives' resistance to turning over the requested photos of Joe and Hunter Biden in China likely hampered and undermined congressional investigations and an impeachment inquiry against the incumbent Democratic president.