Biden’s lawyers find five other secret documents in a mansion of the president

The White House has confirmed that the lawyers for the US president, Joe Bidenhave found another 5 documents classified in Delaware from his time as Vice President. His press department insists that he has always acted with the “greatest transparency” and they avoid going any further.

“Independence has been restored to the Department of Justice. That’s what we’re telling you here when we say we refer you to the Department of Justice … which is restoring independence when it comes to issues like this. And that’s important for the president. And he’s been consistent. What I’m saying about the investigations has been consistent for two years now. And you’ve heard me over and over again when it comes to a legal issue or a matter like this, that we’ve always referred to the Department of Justice. So there is nothing different here,” said Karine Jean-Pierre, White House press secretary.

The law requires that all presidential records be released to the National Archives after the term, in the case of Biden after his time as vice president, but the possession of these in itself is not a crime if it is not shown that they were knowingly concealed.

In Biden’s case, it was his own lawyers who notified the authorities that they had found classified documents.

But in the case of Trump, they were discovered after the search, motivated by a request from the National Archives (in charge of safeguarding all presidential documents) since they had been trying to recover records that the former president had taken to his personal residence for more than a year.

Despite the differences, the Republicans have tried to equate both situations and will undoubtedly try to take political advantage of the crisis that this event will entail for the 80-year-old Biden government.

“How many more classified documents will you find in Joe Biden’s house?” Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee said in a message on social media today.

All this one day after they sent a letter to Garland to announce that they will supervise the investigations of the special prosecutor Hur and those made so far.

“We are monitoring the Justice Department’s actions regarding former Vice President Biden’s mishandling of classified documents, including the apparent unauthorized possession of classified material in a private Washington, DC office and in the garage of his Wilmington residence,” notes the letter signed by the chairman of this committee, Jim Jordan, congressman from Ohio.

In the letter they demand that Garland turn over a series of documents related to the Biden investigation by January 27 and highlight the fact that the documents were discovered just before the election.

And it is that, although the case has not been known until this week, it was on November 4, four days before the mid-term elections, when the office of the inspector general of the National Archives contacted the Department of Justice and informed it that the White House had found classified documents

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