Newsman: The Justice Department is reviewing a number of classified documents recovered last fall in a storage closet connected to an office used by President Joe Biden prior to his presidential campaign, the White House confirmed Monday. The review was first reported by CBS News.
Former President Donald Trump took to his social media platform Truth Social after hearing the news, where he posted, “When is the FBI going to raid the many homes of Joe Biden, perhaps even the White House? These documents were definitely not declassified.”
The counsel did not describe the nature of the documents, only referring to a “small number” of documents.
President Biden’s personal attorneys have discovered classified documents among what appear to be Obama-era records when the current president was vice president, according to a statement from Richard Sauber, the special counsel to the president. The matter is under review by the Justice Department Richard Sauber said in a statement..
Sauber said Biden periodically used the office space at the center from mid-2017 until the beginning of his 2020 campaign.
Biden’s attorneys found the documents while packing other materials in a locked closet at the Penn Biden Center in Washington, D.C., before the midterm elections and the National Archives were notified the same day..
The Archives collected the documents the following morning and the matter is under review by the Justice Department.
Sauber said in a statement that the documents “were not the subject of any previous request or inquiry by the Archives” and that Biden’s attorneys have been cooperating with the DOJ and National Archives to ensure all Obama-Biden administration records are “appropriately in the possession of the Archives.”
The documents and DOJ review come to focus as former DOJ integrity chief Jack Smith is investigating the potential mishandling of classified documents by former President Donald Trump, which were seized from his Florida home last August. Smith is also looking into aspects of the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.
