Updated on 01/14/2023 at 7:42 pm
- There is no rest in the case of confidential and secret documents in the private home of the President of the United States, Joe Biden.
- As the White House announced on Saturday, five more pages from Biden’s time as vice president were discovered in an adjacent room in his garage.
- The case is a sensitive one for Biden — comparisons to the Mar-a-Lago affair surrounding Donald Trump are quickly drawn.
Five more pages of confidential documents were found in the private home of US President Joe Biden. As the White House announced on Saturday, documents from Biden’s time as vice president under Barack Obama were discovered in a room off the garage when Biden’s legal adviser, Richard Sauber, visited the Wilmington, Delaware, home on Thursday. -fair.
A special prosecutor was appointed by the Minister of Justice on Thursday
Previously, several dozen confidential and classified documents were found in Biden’s former Washington office and in the garage of his private home in Delaware. On Thursday, US Attorney General Merrick Garland hired a special investigator to investigate the discovery. Former federal prosecutor Robert Hur is specifically tasked with investigating whether laws have been violated.
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Biden’s legal counsel, Sauber, said the papers were “inadvertently misplaced”. He stressed that the President will cooperate with the special prosecutor. Biden himself said he was “surprised” by the discovery of confidential documents in his former office. He later said his lawyers scoured multiple locations for state documents and completed the search on Wednesday night.
The incident is sensitive for Biden: it draws comparisons to the discovery of several confidential government documents at his predecessor Donald Trump’s luxurious Florida estate. Garland had also appointed a special investigator into the Trump case. A 1978 law in the United States requires presidents and vice presidents to hand over all their emails, letters and other documents to the National Archives.
The first documents were found in November
The first documents were found on Biden a week before the midterm congressional elections in November, but the White House only recognized the discovery on Monday. Opposition Republican politicians have therefore raised accusations of cover-up and uneven application of the law in the cases of Biden and Trump.
Republicans in the US Congress have announced their own investigation into the documents found on Biden. Legal experts, however, see fundamental differences between the two cases, especially given the sheer volume of documents found in Trump’s estate.