Joe Biden: New classified documents found in his garage

The president’s legal team Joe Biden discovered a second batch of classified documents from the period when the current occupant of the White House was US vice president in a storage space in the garage of his house in Wilmington, Delaware, the White House announced today.

The announcement by Richard Sauber, Biden’s special counsel, comes days after the White House said an earlier batch of documents it had been discovered in November in an office cupboard at a think tank of the University of Pennsylvania used by Biden after he left the vice presidency.

The revelations have created legal and political headaches for Biden as he prepares to seek re-election to the US presidency.

A single document found in a room next to the garage in Wilmington and no documents were found at Biden’s home in Rehoboth Beach, Sauber said in a statement. The government is “fully cooperating” to ensure the records are handled properly, Sauber said, according to the Athens News Agency.

There are differences between the revelation that Biden’s legal team found classified documents at his properties and the ongoing Department of Justice investigation on former President Donald Trump’s refusal to turn over classified documents the Republican tycoon took with him from the White House.

The former president kept thousands of government records, some hundreds of them classified, at his Florida residence for more than a year after leaving the White House and did not immediately or willingly return them despite numerous requests from the National Files.

When he finally delivered 15 boxes of files in January 2022, the National Archives found that more than 100 were classified. The matter was referred to the Justice Department in the spring, and a special counsel was appointed to oversee the investigation.