The White House said Monday that the Justice Department searched President Joe Biden’s home on Friday after a “voluntary and proactive offer” made to the department by his personal attorney.
Bob Bauer, the president’s attorney, said in a statement Saturday evening that a new search of Biden’s home in Wilmington, Delaware resulted in the finding of six more items, including documents with hashtags.
Power added that some of the classified documents and “surrounding material” date back to Biden’s tenure in the Senate, where he represented Delaware from 1973 to 2009.
And he added that other documents were from his tenure as vice president in the administration of former President Barack Obama from 2009 to 2017.
“This was a voluntary, preemptive offer from the President’s personal attorneys to the Department of Justice for access to the house,” White House spokesman Ian Sams said.
Sams declined to provide further details of the exact content of the material taken from the Wilmington home. The White House said Biden was briefed on what was going on during the process.
The research raises the legal and political stakes for Biden, who stresses that the classified materials found before that in his former home and office will ultimately be deemed insignificant.
Sams also said that the White House attorney sent a letter to the Republican-controlled House Oversight Committee chairman in response to his inquiries about classified documents found in Democrat Biden’s home and office.
Republicans have compared the investigation to another into how Biden’s predecessor, former Republican President Donald Trump, handled classified documents after he left office in January 2021.
The White House said the Biden team cooperated with authorities in their investigation and handed over the documents. Trump resisted until the FBI searched him in August at his Florida resort.
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