Usa, classified documents discovered in a former Biden office. Trump attacks: “When will a blitz in his homes?” – Daily fact

They were packing papers to free up a locker in an office that Joe Biden used between 2017 and 2019, when several were found classified documents when he held the position of vice president of the United States. The news was leaked by the American media but the fact would date back to November 2ndshortly before midterm elections. To discover the documents in the office at Penn Biden Centerto Washingtonwhich Biden used when he was honorary professor from the University of Pennsylvania (2017-2019), were the lawyers of the American president. And his lawyers immediately informed him National Archiveswho took possession of the material and alerted the justice department, who is investigating.

The news creates a lot embarrassment at the White House because it comes while the Justice Department is investigating the large amount of classified material discovered in the residence of Mar-a-Lago Of Donald Trump. A fact that obviously could not go unnoticed and was immediately ridden by republicans. In particular by Trump himself who immediately went on the counterattack: “When theFBI will do a raids in Joe Biden’s many homes, maybe even the White House? Those documents definitely were not declassified“, attacked the tycoon on social media Truth. The former American president draws a parallel with the search of his home which led to the discovery of “184 confidential documents of which “25 top secret”. In addition to Trump, critical comments come from his other party colleagues. “Biden was very critical to the fact that Donald Trump mistakenly brought classified documents to his residence or elsewhere and it now appears that he may have done the same… How ironic“said the deputy James Comerpresident in pectore of the House Audit Committee, which promises to seek guidance from the National Archives. Also, some Republicans question why they were discovered After many years.

In Biden’s case it would be one dozens of documents who were in one school bag along with other cards unclassified and which were immediately returned, but the “forgetfulness” raises more than a few questions. According to a source of cbswould not contain anyway nuclear secrets. The president’s lawyers discovered them while they were packing documents inside a closed cabinet to free up the office space used by Biden at the time. “The White House is cooperating with the National Archives and the Justice Department on the discovery of what appear to be documents of theObama-Biden administrationincluding a small number of documents marked as classified,” he explained Richard Sauber, special counsel by Biden. “The documents were not subject to any prior request or investigation by the National Archives,” she added, thus unlike Trump’s.