A lawyer for Mr Biden says US Department of Justice (DoJ) investigators found six more classified documents during a 13-hour search of President Joe Biden’s home in Delaware.
Some of the documents seized from Wilmington’s estate on Friday date back to his time as a senator and others to Barack Obama’s tenure as vice president.
Lawyer Bob Bauer said “personally handwritten notes” and “surrounding materials” were also seized.
Mr. Biden and his wife were not present.
Mr. Bauer said in a statement Saturday that the president “offered access to his home to allow the DoJ to search the entire compound for potential vice presidential records and potentially classified material.”
Earlier this month, Mr. Biden’s lawyers said the first batch of classified documents was received on Nov. 2 from the Penn Biden Center, a think tank the president founded in Washington, DC.
A second shipment of records was found in the garage of his Wilmington home on Dec. 20, while another document was found in a storage space at the home on Jan. 12, his attorneys said.
After finding the documents, the president said his team immediately turned them over to the National Archives and the Department of Justice. It is not clear why Mr. Biden hired him.
Under the Presidential Records Act, White House records must go to the National Archives after an administration ends, where they can be safely stored.
A special counsel, Robert Herr, has been appointed to lead the investigation into how sensitive documents were handled.
The lengthy search and subsequent discovery of more documents is a political headache for the president, as he prepares to announce whether he will seek a second term in 2024.
Mr. Biden and his wife, Jill, spend the weekend in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, where they own another home. According to the New York Times, his lawyers said he was searched earlier this month and no documents were found.
JEE News says the two-month gap between Biden’s first discovery – just days before the mid-term elections – and the news being made public in January is strange for the president about transparency. Raises questions.
Mr. Biden’s team insists that the president has fully cooperated with the DoJ inquiry. Mr. Biden has played down the issue as an oversight, saying he has “no regrets” about not publicly disclosing the discovery of some of the classified files ahead of November’s midterm elections.
The revelation comes as former US President Donald Trump faces an investigation into the alleged mishandling of hundreds of classified documents at his Florida Mar-a-Lago residence and his alleged failure to comply with a subpoena. Is.
Mr. Trump and his lawyers resisted handing over the documents until the FBI raided his vacation home in Florida last August. He alleged that President Biden was being treated more favorably by the FBI.
