2023-10-10 01:41:25
US President Joe Biden has been questioned in the affair surrounding the discovery of confidential government documents in a former office and his private home. “The President has been interviewed as part of the investigation led by Special Counsel Robert Hur,” the White House said on Monday (local time). The “voluntary interview” with the 80-year-old Democratic president took place on Sunday and Monday in the White House.
“As we have said from the beginning, the President and the White House are cooperating in this investigation,” it said.
At the end of 2022, around a dozen confidential government documents from his time as vice president under Biden Obama were found in an office formerly used by Biden. Additional secret documents were subsequently discovered in Biden’s garage and his home in Delaware. The US Department of Justice then appointed a special prosecutor to investigate the case.
The incident is sensitive for Biden: It gives rise to comparisons with the discovery of hundreds of secret documents in his predecessor Donald Trump’s estate in Florida. Trump’s case is also being investigated by a special investigator. A US law requires presidents and vice presidents to turn over all their emails, letters and other documents to the National Archives following leaving office.
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