The American president assures us to “cooperate fully” with American justice, when the opposition requests a Congressional investigation.
“A small number» confidential documents dating from the time of the vice-presidency of Joe Biden were found in his private residence in Wilmington, the White House said Thursday, January 12. Joe Biden indicates “cooperate fullywith American justice. “I take confidential documents very seriously“, thus declared the democratic leader to the press. In response, the Republican Speaker of the House of Representatives – the American lower house – Kevin McCarthy called on Congress to investigate these confidential documents, denouncing “another misstep by the Biden administration».
Following the discovery of a dozen documents of this type in a former office of Joe Biden in Washington, his lawyers inspected his two private residences, where archives “could have been transferred during the 2017 transition“, explained in a press release the lawyer of the presidency, Richard Sauber. They found “a small number of additional documents dating from the Obama-Biden administration and classified as confidentialwhich were in the garage of his home in Wilmington, Delaware, and an adjoining room, he said.
No documents in his Rehoboth residence
No documents were found at his residence in the seaside town of Rehoboth, in this east coast state, added Richard Sauber, noting that the Department of Justice was immediately notified to take possession of the files. . The revelations are embarrassing for the Democratic president, with authorities investigating his Republican predecessor Donald Trump’s handling of his own presidential archives for months.
The federal police had led in August a spectacular raid in the private club of Mar-a-Lago, in Florida, where the billionaire has lived since leaving the White House. The FBI had seized thousands of documents, including a hundred classified defense secrets. A 1978 law obliges American presidents and vice-presidents to send all their emails, letters and other working documents to the National Archives.