The FBI moved into the Rehoboth, Delaware operation “with the full support and cooperation of the President.” “More information” will follow once the search of the beach house is complete.
When searching for classified documents, the US federal police FBI now also the President’s beach house Joe Biden searched in the state of Delaware. “Today, with the full support and cooperation of the President, the Justice Department is conducting a planned search of his home in Rehoboth, Delaware,” Biden’s private attorney Bob Bauer said Wednesday.
This is “another step in a careful and expeditious” investigation by the US Department of Justice, “which we will continue to fully support and facilitate,” the attorney said. Bauer announced “more information” after completing the search of the US East Coast home.
Documents accidentally packed
In the past months were Secret documents in a former Biden office found in the capital, Washington, and at the President’s residence in Wilmington, Delaware. The documents date from his time as Vice President under President Barack Obama (2009 to 2017) and from his previous time as a US Senator. According to the White House, the documents were accidentally wrapped.
The US Department of Justice has appointed a special prosecutor to investigate the case. The affair is highly explosive for the 80-year-old US Democrat Biden, who wants to decide on a new presidential candidacy in the coming weeks or months – partly because of the parallels to his predecessor Donald Trump.
FBI agents had already searched Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in the state of Florida last August and confiscated numerous secret documents. In this case, a special investigator was deployed in November who, in addition to the secret documents, is also examining Trump’s role in the storming of the US Capitol on January 6, 2021.
More than 300 secret documents at Trump
However, there are big differences between the discovery of secret documents by Trump and Biden. Biden, for example, claims to have cooperated with the US judiciary from the start, unlike his Republican predecessor. In addition, more than 300 secret documents were found on Trump – significantly more than on Biden.
A US law requires presidents and vice presidents to turn over all their emails, letters and other documents to the National Archives after leaving office. Only last week it became known that also in the house of Trump’s former vice president Mike Pence secret files had been discovered. The finds have raised fundamental questions about how the US government handles classified information.
(APA/AFP)