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White House: After the White House said that a small number of classified documents had been found at private residence, the US president Joe Biden said he is “cooperating fully”. The White has been prompting calls for a congressional investigation into the alleged mishandling of the official papers.
Classified Documents Found At Biden’s Private House
The authorities investigate a far bigger scandal involving his predecessor Donald Trump, which can be potentially embarrassing discovery for President Biden.
The documents dating to the Obama-Biden administration were found at Biden’s residence in Wilmington, Delaware, after other similar papers were found at a Washington think tank where Biden used to have an office.
Former President Trump hoarded huge numbers of documents at his Florida residence after leaving the White House in 2021, with the FBI carting away some 11,000 papers after serving a search warrant in August. The former President Trump could face obstruction of justice charges.
However, the discovery of paper at Biden’s house is politically tricky for a president who touts his high ethical standards, and it could also complicate the Trump probe.
Biden On Investigation
While speaking to the media, President Biden said, “People know I take classified documents and classified material seriously.”
“We’re cooperating fully (and) completely with the Justice Department’s review. As part of that process, my lawyers reviewed other places where documents from my time as vice president were stored, and they finished the review last night.”
Further he said, “They discovered a small number of documents with classified markings in storage areas and file cabinets in my home and my personal library.”
“The Department of Justice was immediately notified… So we’re going see all this unfold,” the President added, declining to take shouted questions from the press.
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Stray Documents
Republican House Speaker Kevin McCarthy demanded that “Congress has to investigate this,” stressed on the Justice Department’s investigation of Trump.
“When is the FBI going to raid the many homes of Joe Biden, perhaps even the White House,” Trump had earlier written on his social media site Truth Social.
Biden’s team has said that if mistakes were made with his official papers, the administration has immediately acted to rectify any errors.
After the first batch of documents was discovered in Biden’s former office at the Penn Biden Center think tank last November, lawyers turned them over to the National Archives, which handles all such materials, the White House counsel’s office said.
Lawyers for Biden then scoured possible locations for any other stray documents.
