The US federal police conducted a search on Wednesday at Joe Biden’s coastal residence in Rehoboth (Delaware, east) without finding any documents classified as confidential, the president’s personal lawyer announced.
After 3:30 hours of investigation, “no document was found that mentioned the classification,” Bob Bauer said in a press release at noon.
He adds, however, that the investigators “removed certain documents and handwritten notes that appear to date from the time of his vice presidency, to review them.”
The president is cooperating “fully” with the FBI
Earlier in the day, the Democratic president’s personal attorney announced that the FBI was searching his client’s residence and that Joe Biden was “fully” cooperating with the latter.
“For security and procedural reasons, (the FBI) wanted to proceed with this action without prior public communication and we have decided to cooperate,” he said.
Federal police had previously searched another Delaware home of Joe Biden, located in the city of Wilmington, looking for confidential documents dating to the 80-year-old Democrat’s previous roles as vice president and senator. The president often spends weekends in Wilmington or, less frequently, in Rehoboth.
Documents from his vice presidency discovered in Wilmington
Since last November, a series of confidential documents, the exact number and content of which is unknown to this day, have been found either in an office that Joe Biden occupies at a Washington think tank, or in the Wilmington home .
These documents date back to Joe Biden’s vice presidency (2009-2017) and his three decades in the Senate, during which he dealt extensively with foreign policy. The Department of Justice has appointed a special prosecutor to investigate these discoveries, embarrassing for the Democratic president because they evoke, despite many differences, a case of official files brought to Florida by his predecessor Donald Trump.
United States law requires presidents and vice presidents to transfer all their official documents, communications, and other memoranda to the National Archives.
Donald Trump’s former vice president, the very conservative Mike Pence, also revealed in late January that a “small number of documents marked ‘confidential'” had been discovered at his residence.
Source: BFM TV
