The U.S. Justice Department seized several documents containing confidential information in new searches conducted Friday at the U.S. president’s home in Wilmington, Delaware, Joe Biden’s attorney revealed Saturday.
According to Bob Bauer, quoted by the Associated Press, authorities “seized material consistent with the investigation, including six consisting of confidentiality-marked documents and other related materials.”
Some of the seized documents relate to Joe Biden’s time in the U.S. Senate and others as vice president in Barack Obama’s administration, the attorney said.
The searches lasted 13 hours at the residence in Wilmington, Delaware.
A week ago, the White House announced that Biden’s lawyers had found confidential and official documents on four separate occasions: on November 2 in the Washington office of the Penn Biden Center, on December in Delaware, and on November 11 and 12 in the Washington library. the residence of the head of state.
The new searches came a day after Joe Biden devalued the controversy and made sure he had no regrets and no case.
The discovery of classified documents dating back to Biden’s vice presidency (2009-2017) complicates a federal investigation into former President Donald Trump, who the Justice Department says took hundreds of documents marked confidential when he left the White House in early 2021 and for months resisted requests to return them to the country’s archives.
While the two cases are different — for example, Biden voluntarily handed over the found documents — it has nevertheless become a political headache for a president who has promised a complete break from the Trump administration’s operations and methods.
The case also complicates the last two years of Biden’s tenure ahead of the 2024 presidential election, of which he has not yet confirmed whether he will run.
Source: DN
