This affair places the American president in a very delicate situation. Five additional pages of confidential documents were found in Joe Biden’s family home in Wilmington, Delaware (east coast of the United States), the White House announced on Saturday January 14. These documents were found by the lawyer for the presidency, Richard Sauber, in a room adjacent to the garage, said the latter in a press release.
The lawyer declares that he went to the president’s residence on Thursday evening, in order to supervise the transmission to justice of a page identified as being a confidential document, found the day before, in this same room, by personal lawyers of Joe Biden. While a 1978 law obliges American presidents and vice-presidents to transmit all their emails, letters and other working documents to the National Archives, they did not push their research further and warned the Ministry of Justice, specifies the advice of the White House.
The representatives of the Ministry of Justice who accompanied the lawyer “at once” took possession of all six documents dating from when the Democrat was Barack Obama’s vice-president, between 2009 and 2017.
An investigation launched on Thursday
In addition to the files found in this private residence, other classified documents had been discovered last November at the Penn Biden Center, a think tank in Washington where Joe Biden once had an office, and also entrusted to justice.
On Thursday, Justice Minister Merrick Garland appointed an independent prosecutor to investigate the case.
The White House communicated without delay about the files found in Wilmington, but only acknowledged last Monday, two months later, the discovery of those who were in Washington.
The matter is very delicate for Joe Biden, when he plans to run for re-election.
She recalls in particular, despite many differences on the merits, that former President Donald Trump is also in the sights of justice for having taken official documents to his residence in Florida.