Six more classified documents were found at the Wilmington, Delaware home of Joe Biden on Friday during a nearly thirteen hour search of the home by the Department of Justice according to a statement released Saturday evening by Biden’s private attorney Bob Bauer. This is the fifth batch of classified documents found in Biden’s possession and the fourth to be found at the Wilmington home in searches stretching from December 20 to Friday. The first batch was found at the Penn Biden Center in Washington, D.C. on November 2nd.
Bauer also said, “The DOJ also took for further review personally handwritten notes from the vice-presidential years.”
Attorney General Merrick Garland appointed a special counsel, Robert Hur, to investigate Biden’s handling of classified documents on January 12.
A separate statement from the White House Counsel’s Office notes “Neither the President nor the First Lady were present during the search. The President’s lawyers and White House Counsel’s Office will continue to cooperate with DOJ and the Special Counsel…” pic.twitter.com/O3UxV4iY8W
— Ed O’Keefe (@edokeefe) January 21, 2023
Follow-up statement by Biden’s special White House counsel Richard Sauber:
Statement from White House Counsel’s Office on ongoing cooperation with the Justice Department: pic.twitter.com/LUUjgzuouL
— Ian Sams (@IanSams46) January 21, 2023
And comment by White House counsel spokesman Ian Sams: “An important note from the statement released by the President’s personal attorney:
POTUS’s lawyers offered to provide DOJ prompt access to the Wilmington home, and gave DOJ full access to it, including personally handwritten notes, memorabilia, and papers going back decades.”
An important note from the statement released by the President’s personal attorney:
POTUS’s lawyers offered to provide DOJ prompt access to the Wilmington home, and gave DOJ full access to it, including personally handwritten notes, memorabilia, and papers going back decades. https://t.co/quWHXwc0yz
— Ian Sams (@IanSams46) January 21, 2023
Joe and Jill Biden are staying at their Rehoboth beach, Delaware vacation home this weekend. AP reporter Darlene Superville had asked at Friday’s press briefing if the stay at the beach house was because the Wilmington house was being searched. Karine Jean-Pierre deflected the question like she has others on the classified documents investigation.
A prescient reporter, @dsupervilleap, asked if Biden’s travel to Rehoboth, not Wilm, this wknd was related to the doc invest.
“As it relates to his travel, as you know, he often travels to Delaware on the weekends. I just don’t have anything else to share,” @PressSec said.
— Steven Portnoy (@stevenportnoy) January 22, 2023
