On Thursday, Fox News White House correspondent Peter Doocy sparred with President Biden after revelations surfaced that a second batch of classified documents had been found at one of his homes in Delaware.
Reports were confirmed earlier in the day by the White House Counsel’s Office, which announced the discovery after reports had surfaced the day prior.
The office said it had initiated a search of Biden’s homes in Rehoboth Beach and Wilmington after news of the first stash broke this week in which documents were found in the Wilmington home’s garage, next to President Biden’s Corvette.
“Classified documents next to your Corvette? What were you thinking?” Doocy asked.
“I’m going to get the chance to speak on all of this, God willing it’ll be soon, but I said earlier this week — and by the way my Corvette is in a locked garage. It’s not like it’s sitting out in the street,” Biden responded.
“So the documents were in a locked garage,” Doocy prompted.
“Yes, as well as my Corvette. But as I said earlier this week, people know I take classified documents and classified material seriously,” Biden said. “I also said we’re cooperating fully and completely with the Justice Department’s review.”
Biden continued, stating that the White House Counsel’s Office searched his two residences in Rehoboth Beach and Wilmington this week after revelations emerged about a collection of Obama-era classified documents found at an office in the Penn Biden Center, a think tank in Washington. Biden used the office from 2017 until the beginning of his 2020 presidential campaign.
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Biden is facing growing scrutiny for his handling of classified documents, while the White House says that it is fully cooperating with an investigation by the Justice Department.
White House lawyers say they immediately contacted the DOJ when they discovered the documents this week. It is fully unknown what the second set of documents contain or whether the president, or anyone else, read them after he left office as vice president.
“Lawyers discovered among personal and political papers a small number of additional Obama-Biden administration records with classified markings. All but one of these documents were found in storage space in the President’s Wilmington residence garage,” White House lawyers wrote in a Thursday statement. “One document consisting of one page was discovered among stored materials in an adjacent room.”
The White House says no documents were found at Biden’s residence in Rehoboth Beach. Biden’s administration has also arranged to deliver the documents to the DOJ.
The Wilmington documents are the second stash of Obama-era classified documents to be uncovered. The first collection was found at the Washington office of the Penn Biden Center, a Biden-aligned think tank, on November 2, just days before the 2022 midterms. However, this information was not released to the public until Tuesday.
Attorney General Merrick Garland tapped John Lausch, the U.S. attorney for the Northern District of Illinois and a Trump appointee, to investigate the matter on Monday. In addition, he announced on Thursday that he had appointed U.S. Attorney Robert Hur to serve as special counsel to investigate President Biden’s handling of classified material. The White House says Biden is fully cooperating with the investigation.
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