Richard Sauber, the White House legal adviser, announced in a statement on Saturday that more classified documents had been found in the president’s private library. A total of five more documents will be involved.
Previously, the White House has said that only one document was found in the library.
A departmental investigation is ongoing
Saturday’s announcement is to be added to the findings of classified material revealed earlier this week. On the one hand, documents have been found in a “storage space in Biden’s garage in Wilmington” and on the other hand, documents have been found at the Penn Biden Center, a think tank connected to the University of Pennsylvania where Biden was previously an honorary professor.
What has been found is from when Biden was Barack Obama’s vice president.
Earlier this week, US Attorney General Merrick Garland decided to appoint a private lawyer and former attorney general to conduct an initial independent investigation into Biden’s classified documents.
Joe Biden has not objected to such an investigation, but has said he is “fully cooperating.”
Found on Thursday
Sauber announces that Biden’s personal lawyers, who were not classified, immediately stopped their review of Biden’s private residence when they found a classified document on Wednesday evening. The five other documents – which have now become known – were found by Sauber himself on Thursday.
The documents have now been handed over to the Department of Justice, according to Sauber.
In a raid on former President Donald Trump’s residence Mar-a-Lago in Florida last August, the FBI took more than 100 classified documents from there. That finding is also being reviewed by the Department of Justice.
But Trump has made it clear that he does not intend to cooperate with the investigation, which he labels a “witch hunt and politically motivated”.
Three questions about the Biden documents:
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