New classified documents have been found at a private residence of Joe Biden

The new year does not start auspiciously for the White House. Two days after the initial disclosure, aides to Joe Biden discovered another trove of classified documents at the president’s home, according to the Statement from White House legal counselThursday, January 12, confirming information from US media including her NBC News and the The New York Times.

After the first such discovery in November in a former office of Joe Biden, the president’s lawyers conducted an extensive search of his residences in Wilmington and Rehoboth (Delaware) Beach. It is in this context that this second series of documents is found. Most of them were in “garage storage space” From the Wilmington home, the statement said, with only one item, a page long, discovered among other documents in an adjoining room.

No documents were found at the Rehoboth Beach residence. As for the first discoveries, the documents have been handed over to the Ministry of Justice, specify the press release, which also reminds that The White House will continue to cooperate with the Justice Department investigation.. This second investigation concludes the research.

“I was surprised,” says Joe Biden.

In November, Biden’s lawyers found classified documents — including briefing notes on foreign countries, according to the State Department. The New York Times – in one of the offices that he sometimes used as a workplace. These documents, like those in his home, date back to the period when Joe Biden was Vice President to Barack Obama (2009-2017).

According to government rules, access to classified documents is restricted to authorized persons and items must be kept in secure lockers. According to the Presidential Records Act, official documents, whether classified or not, must also be deposited in the National Archives after leaving the administration.

The Democratic President’s administration has so far confirmed that A “A few documents classified as classified” – about ten – were found in “locked closet” At the Ben Biden Center, a think tank where Joe Biden had an office. “I was surprised when I learned that documents related to the government were taken from this office. But I don’t know what is in the documents.”And The president told the press on TuesdayOn the sidelines of a summit with the Mexican President and the Prime Minister of Canada in Mexico City. On Thursday, Joe Biden confirmed, during a brief dialogue with the press, “full cooperation” With American justice.

Unlike Trump, the Biden team returned the documents

On Tuesday, CBS announced that Attorney General Merrick Garland has appointed a judge to examine the first documents discovered at the Ben Biden Center. With this new development, the case is supposed to continue to generate noise and could serve as an argument for the Republican camp while also doing justice to the many documents that former President Donald Trump stored in his residence in Florida, after he left the White House in 2021.

To date, the billionaire’s case is much more serious, since the Federal Police (FBI), during a stunning search, seized thousands of documents, including a hundred secret defense secrets, which the Republican refused to return. But the latest revelations remain embarrassing for the Democratic president, who has always made his own moral demand in contrast to his predecessor.

Commentators say they could also bring subtle political considerations into the investigation of Donald Trump, who immediately called for Joe Biden to be given the same attention. “When will the FBI raid Joe Biden’s many residences, or even the White House?” was a reaction. Republicans are calling for the creation of a “special advice” To investigate the Democratic President. on me TwitterSen. Josh Hawley shared the NBC News article, simply with the mention “special advice”.

Congress should investigate this issue.Republican House Speaker Kevin McCarthy told the press Thursday “A new misstep by the Biden administration”. Although the volume of documents President Biden has stockpiled varies, embarrassment was palpable among Democrats on Thursday and did not escape their opposition. Remember how the left reacted when President Trump took home the so-called “classified” documents? It’s very quiet today.”commented the House Republican-elect, Jim Jordan, a loyal lieutenant of Donald Trump.

The White House maintains that if mistakes are made, the administration at least corrects them immediately. Once the first documents were found, at the end of November, the lawyers returned them to the National Archives, which manages this type of file, she defended herself. To defuse the accusations of political interference, the attorney general referred the case to a Chicago attorney general appointed during the Trump administration. The White House spokesman, Karen Jean-Pierre, touched on the confidentiality of the investigation, to justify her refusal to respond to reporters’ questions on this matter on Wednesday. Which wasn’t enough to stop them. We’ll limit ourselves to what we can say here.I left.

The Minister of Justice shall conduct a ” statment “ before the press at 1:15 p.m. (7:15 p.m. in Paris), according to a press release from his services that gave no further details.