Joe Biden: FBI searches his beach house for classified documents

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FBI searches Joe Biden’s beach house for classified documents

The affair about the secret documents is explosive for Joe Biden

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The affair about the secret documents is far from over for US President Joe Biden: The FBI has now also searched the US President’s beach house.

Searches of US President Joe Biden’s private homes and offices continue. This time the US Federal Police FBI took on the beach house Bidens in the state of Delaware. “Today, with the full support and cooperation of the President, the Justice Department is conducting a planned search of his home in Rehoboth, Delaware,” Biden’s private attorney Bob Bauer said Wednesday.

This is “another step in a careful and expeditious” investigation by the US Department of Justice, “which we will continue to fully support and facilitate,” the attorney said.

The affair is highly explosive

In recent months, classified documents have been found in a former Biden office and in the President’s home in Wilmington, Delaware on the US east coast. The documents date from his time as Vice President under President Barack Obama (2009 to 2017) and from his earlier time as a US Senator.

The US Department of Justice has appointed a special prosecutor to investigate the case. The affair is highly explosive for Biden, who wants to decide on a new presidential candidacy in the coming weeks or months – partly because of the parallels to his predecessor Donald Trump.

Joe Biden cooperates, Donald Trump does not

FBI agents had already searched Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in the state of Florida last August and confiscated numerous secret documents. In this case, a special prosecutor was appointed in November. However, there are major differences between the two cases. Biden, for example, asserts that, unlike Trump, he has cooperated with the US judiciary from the start.

A US law requires presidents and vice presidents to turn over all their emails, letters and other documents to the National Archives after leaving office. Only last week did it become known that secret files had also been discovered in the house of Trump’s former Vice President Mike Pence.

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