Texas Senator Ted Cruz wants the FBI to search Hunter Biden’s homes – after classified documents were discovered at President Biden’s Wilmington residence, where documents suggest Hunter had a home office.
Cruz, who has already called for a search of the thousands of boxes of Biden papers donated to the University of Delaware, pointed to an email from Hunter Biden allegedly showing a level of expertise in Ukraine and claimed she raised the “conclusion” that the president’s son may have had “direct access” to classified information.
The former presidential candidate referenced the same 2014 Hunter Biden email to his former business partner, which showed a fluent knowledge of Ukraine’s domestic politics, which Wisconsin GOP Senator Ron Johnson called “suspicious.”
“The obvious question is, what did he cut and paste? What was its source? And it leaves the natural conclusion that Hunter Biden had direct access to those classified documents,” Cruz said.
Republican Texas Senator Ted Cruz pointed to an email he said raises the “conclusion” that Hunter Biden had “direct access” to classified documents uncovered at his father’s home in Wilmington became. Other documents indicate that Hunter maintained a home office there, leading Cruz to say Hunter’s own properties should be searched
The Texas Republican boasted “a metaphysical certainty” that he had no classified documents in his possession and actively questioned the incumbent president’s handling of classified documents.
Cruz made the comments to Fox News “Sunday Futures” anchor Maria Bartiromo, who was one of President Trump’s most ardent defenders during the Russia probe and who harbored him after the 2020 election, which Trump falsely called a “fraud” and ” manipulated.’
“It appears he leaves classified documents wherever he goes,” Cruz said of Biden. “And we also know that Hunter Biden has at times – made these very places his home. And so I believe the natural next step that is necessary is for the FBI to examine the 1,850+ boxes of documents from Joe Biden’s Senate term that are located at the University of Delaware.
“And I also believe that it is vitally important for the FBI to search Hunter Biden’s homes, living quarters and offices to ensure there are no classified documents there, given all the evidence that is mounting.” We need to establish who had access to what and when,” he added.
Hunter Biden, pictured in July, appeared to have used his father’s Delaware home as an office from 2017-19 while secret documents were kept inside
At least a few documents were found in Biden’s garage at his home in Wilmington, Delaware. Biden’s sons Beau and Hunter converted the car for him
Cruz cited a briefing by Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines with members of the Senate Intelligence Committee demanding information about the contents of classified information uncovered at the Biden home. Cruz sits on the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee.
“Essentially, the administration said, go jump in a lake. We won’t tell you anything,’ he said. “And that is absolutely unacceptable. Look, there are a number of classified documents. I have read many confidential documents. Some are just general geopolitical observations. The consequences of this are not very important.’
Cruz said there was no chance of classified material in his own home after such material was discovered at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home, Biden’s home and office and the home of former Vice President Mike Pence in Indiana.
“I’ve been in the Senate for 10 years. I can state with metaphysical certainty that there are no classified documents in my home. How do I know? Because I only read secret documents in one place. It’s in the SCIF, a secure location in the Capitol basement,” he said.
That comes after reports that notebooks from Biden’s time as vice president were among the items seized by the FBI during his search – which the White House has emphasized came at Biden’s invitation.
Cruz’s call to widen the search comes after it was revealed Hunter Biden appeared to have used his father’s Delaware home as an office, with secret documents kept in the walls.
The president’s son, now 52, listed his father’s Wilmington mansion as his home following his 2017 divorce from Kathleen Buhle.
He had bills registered at the home in 2018 and 2019, the New York Post reported Saturday, and he asked his assistant to send boxes of his office equipment to the residence.
“Having stock shipped to my parents’ guest house,” he told his assistant, Katie Dodge, in a December 2018 text message.
A box labeled “Important Documents + Photos” appears to have been left unsealed on a table at President Joe Biden’s Delaware home
Hunter Biden, now 52, was then exploring business and investment opportunities with partners in China, Ukraine and beyond.
It is now known that secret documents were kept in the house.
Jim Hanson, a national security adviser and president of WorldStrat, said Hunter’s running a private company from an office where government documents were illegally held was a recipe for disaster.
“Having access to US classified information makes it much easier to exploit your business,” he told the paper.
“You know things that others don’t know or can’t know. That’s a very definite possibility.’
He added that Hunter, who has a known history of drug and addiction problems, was also prone to allowing outsiders access to the information.
“He’s a degenerate junkie who hangs out with foreign prostitutes,” Hanson said.
“How can this go wrong in a place where there are piles of documents hidden everywhere?”
Hunter Biden registered his father’s house (pictured) as his residence when he divorced his former wife in 2017
A special counsel has been appointed to investigate how classified documents ended up in Joe Biden’s home and his think tank’s DC offices.
On Friday, NBC News reported that Joe Biden’s personal notebooks were among the classified documents taken.
The notebooks contained notes on his official business as vice president, the network said, including details of his diplomatic engagements during the Obama administration.
The notebooks, of which there were many, a source said, had no secret markings.
Jason R. Baron, a former National Archives trial director, told NBC News that personal notebooks are considered classified if they contain classified information and are government property if shared with employees.
“Handwritten personal notes of a former president or vice president are considered presidential records only if they have been shared or communicated with other White House or federal agency staff for use in conducting government business,” Baron said.
“A past president or vice president has the right to take personal notes from the White House – they are not official records that end up in the legal custody of the National Archives at the end of a term.”
When asked about the notebooks, a spokesman for Biden’s personal attorney, Bob Bauer, said they would not comment.
“As noted in the statement released Jan. 14, consistent with our view of the requirements of our cooperation with the DOJ on this matter, we will not comment on the accuracy of reports of this nature,” the spokesman said.