The US Department of Justice seized several documents containing sensitive information in new searches conducted Friday at the US president’s home in Wilmington, Delaware, Joe Biden’s attorney revealed Saturday.
According to Bob Bauer, quoted by the Associated Press agency, the authorities seized “materials consistent with the investigation, including six consisting of documents with confidentiality marks and other related materials.”
Some of the seized documents relate to Joe Biden’s tenure in the US Senate and others as vice president in the Barack Obama administration, the lawyer said.
The raids lasted 13 hours at the Wilmington, Delaware, residence.
A week ago, 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 at the Delaware Library. the residence of the head of state.
The new searches occurred a day after Joe Biden devalued the controversy, assuring that he was not sorry and that there was no case.
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.
Source: TSF
