Published on: 01/10/2023 – 02:05
They date from when he was Barack Obama’s vice president and were located in premises used during the Trump presidency.
With our correspondent in Washington, Guillaume Naudin
“It’s just completely irresponsible. This is how Joe Biden reacted to the photo secret documents scattered on the ground in Mar-a-Lago and discovered during an FBI raid on Donald Trump’s property. Two months later, the current president’s attorneys, in turn, discovered a small number of classified documents, sources say about ten, in a locked cabinet at premises used by Joe Biden before he launched his victorious 2020 campaign.
The President’s lawyer explains that the national archives responsible for handling official documents were notified the same day and that the documents were recovered the next day. Since then, Joe Biden’s attorneys have been working with the National Archives and the Justice Department, which have launched an investigation.
The law obliges those who leave the administration to return official documents. For this reason, after the discovery of hundreds of secret documents on Donald Trump, a special prosecutor was appointed after unsuccessful requests. In his personal social network, the former president is ironic and wonders when the FBI will search his successor’s apartments and even the White House.