In the search for classified documents, the US federal police FBI has now also searched President Joe Biden’s beach house 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 prompt” investigation by the US Department of Justice, “which we will continue to fully support and facilitate,” the attorney said. Bauer announced “more information” after completing the US East Coast search.
Secret documents found in Biden’s home
Secret documents have been found in recent months in a former Biden office in the capital Washington and in the president’s home in Wilmington, Delaware. The documents date from his time as Vice President under President Barack Obama (2009 to 2017) and from his former time as a US Senator. According to the White House, the documents were accidentally wrapped.
Parallels to Trump
The US Department of Justice has appointed a special prosecutor to investigate the case. The affair is extremely explosive for the 80-year-old American Democrat Biden, who wants to decide on a renewed presidential candidacy in the coming weeks or months – partly because of the parallels with his predecessor Donald Trump.
FBI agents had already searched Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida last August and seized numerous classified documents. In this case, a special investigator was deployed in November who, in addition to the secret documents, is also investigating Trump’s role in the storming of the US Capitol on January 6, 2021.
300 secret documents found on Trump
However, there are major differences between the discovery of secret documents by Trump and Biden. For example, Biden claims to cooperate with the American justice system from the start, unlike his Republican predecessor. In addition, more than 300 secret documents have been found about Trump – significantly more than about Biden.
A US law requires presidents and vice presidents to hand over all their emails, letters and other documents to the National Archives after their term in office. Only last week it was announced that classified files had also been discovered in the home of former Trump vice president Mike Pence. The finds have raised fundamental questions about how the US government handles classified information.
Source: Krone
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