“A small number” of confidential documents dating from Joe Biden’s vice-presidency days were found in his private residence in Wilmington, the White House said Thursday. The President of the United States assured “fully cooperate” with American justice during a brief exchange with the press. After the discovery of these confidential documents, the American president affirmed to “cooperate fully” with American justice.
Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy on Thursday called on the US Congress to open an investigation into confidential documents found in President Joe Biden’s private residence. “Congress must investigate this case,” he told the press, denouncing “a new misstep by the Biden administration”.
Documents in the garage of his residence
Following the discovery of a dozen such documents in a former office of Joe Biden in Washington, his lawyers inspected his two private residences, where records “could have been transferred during the 2017 transition”, said explained in a press release the lawyer of the presidency, Richard Sauber. They found “a small number of additional documents dating from the Obama-Biden administration and classified as confidential,” which were in the garage of his home in Wilmington, Delaware, and in an adjoining room, he said. .
No documents were found at his residence in the seaside town of Rehoboth, in this east coast state, added Richard Sauber, noting that the Department of Justice was immediately informed to take possession of the files. . The revelations are embarrassing for the Democratic president, with authorities investigating his Republican predecessor Donald Trump’s handling of his own presidential archives for months.
The federal police had carried out a spectacular search in August of the private club in Mar-a-Lago, Florida, where the billionaire has lived since his departure from the White House. The FBI had seized thousands of documents, including a hundred classified defense secrets. A 1978 law obliges American presidents and vice-presidents to send all their emails, letters and other working documents to the National Archives.