The president of the United States, Joe Biden, devalued this Thursday the controversy over the discovery of classified documents in his residence and former office, assuring that he has no remorse and that there is no case.
“Hey, we found some documents (…) that were in the wrong place, we immediately handed them over to the Archive [Nacional] and the Department of Justice,” said the US head of state, in response to journalists, during a trip to California.
“I think they will see that there is nothing. I do not regret it. I am following what the lawyers want me to do. That is exactly what we do,” he stressed, adding that he is cooperating “totally” with justice.
The discovery of classified documents, dating from Biden’s vice presidency (2009-2017), complicates a federal investigation into former President Donald Trump, who the Justice Department says took hundreds of records marked as confidential with him when he left the House. White. in early 2021 and resisted requests to return them to the Country Archives for months.
While the two cases are different – Biden, for example, voluntarily handed over the found documents – it has still become a political headache for a president who has promised a complete break with the Trump administration’s operations and methods.
The case also complicates the last two years of Biden’s term before the 2024 presidential election, in which he has yet to confirm whether he will run.
On Saturday, the White House revealed that Biden’s lawyers found confidential documents and official records on four separate occasions: on November 2 at the offices of the Penn Biden Center in Washington, on November 11 and 12 in the residence’s library. of the head of state.
Last week, to avoid suspicions of “double standards,” US Attorney General Merrick Garland appointed Robert Hur, a former Maryland attorney, as special counsel to oversee the Justice Department’s investigation into the documents.
The Republican opposition criticized the ‘drop by drop’ communication of the Biden Executive about the documents found.
With a newly won majority in the House of Representatives, Republicans launched a commission of inquiry and demanded more information.
A 1978 law requires US presidents and vice presidents to transmit, at the end of their terms, all their emails, letters, and other working documents to the National Archives.
Source: TSF
