US President Joe Biden is in a real crisis because of the discovery of further secret documents in his private home. The news ticker.
- Secret papers found in private house: US President Joe Biden remains a possible way out of the mess
- Criticism of Biden: leading republican and donald trump raise serious allegations against Joe Biden
- Biden in need of explanation: Pressure on the President of the USA increases after finding new secret papers
Update from Tuesday, January 24, 4:25 a.m.: After another document was found, the White House has once again defended the actions of US President Joe Biden in the affair over the secret documents. The president voluntarily granted the Justice Department access to his home, Ian Sams, a spokesman for the White House Counsel, said Monday (January 23 local time). Investigators had “an unprecedented ability to access decades-old personally handwritten notes, files, papers, lists, memorabilia and other materials in his home.”
The US government has been criticized for its information policy. “It was a voluntary, proactive offer by the President’s personal attorneys to the Justice Department to gain access to the home,” Sams said. The FBI’s search of the private quarters of an in-office US President is highly unusual. When asked specifically whether the investigators had previously requested such a search, Sams did not answer directly. He only emphasized that this was “consensual” and “planned”.
Biden’s secret papers: Secret Service keeps its own records
Update from Monday, January 23, 8:30 a.m.: The Secret Service is ready to turn over to Justice Department investigators records of all visitors to Joe Biden’s home in Wilmington. The news channel reports FoxNews. The White House had previously claimed that such records would not exist. The Secret Service, which is responsible for protecting the President and Vice President, said it kept such records independently of other government agencies. In turn, the security service had not done so in the case of Donald Trump.
Joe Biden remains a loophole in the secret papers scandal
+++ 11.40 a.m.: Joe Biden could apparently quickly end the scandal surrounding secret papers found in his private home. – albeit with serious political consequences. Legal expert Aram A. Gavoor told CNN that Biden actually had the authority to simply release the classified documents. If he did that, he could no longer be accused of wrongdoing. “But such a decision would probably have catastrophic political consequences,” Gavoor emphasized.
+++ 10.50 a.m.: It is still unclear what consequences the discovery of further secret papers in his private home will have for Joe Biden. Neither Attorney General Merrick Garland nor Special Counsel Richard Sauber have commented. It is the fourth time that investigators have found secret documents on Joe Biden.
Republicans and Donald Trump fall on Joe Biden
+++ 8.45 a.m.: For the Republicans, finding more secret documents on Joe Biden is a godsend. Several prominent politicians criticized the US President for his apparently careless handling of classified documents. Senator Ted Cruz accused Biden of “failure”. Donald Trump also commented on the scandal surrounding his successor. “They got themselves into this docs mess by getting so upset with me and I DID NOTHING WRONG!!!” Trump wrote on Truth Social.
Update, 7:30 a.m.: It is still unclear whether only six other secret documents owned by Joe Biden were actually found. As the special counsel Richard Sauber now announced, the investigators also found “material in the vicinity” of the said documents. One must now evaluate whether this material is also subject to confidentiality regulations.
Joe Biden in need of explanation after finding more secret documents
First report: Washington DC – US President Joe Biden is in need of explanation. Investigators have once again found secret documents in his private home in Wilmington, Delaware. During the search, the officials of the US Department of Justice came across six other documents that were marked as confidential. This was announced by Biden’s lawyer Bob Bauer.
The search of Joe Biden’s private home is said to have lasted 13 hours. “All work, living and storage rooms” were turned upside down. The secret documents found in this way and now confiscated are said to date from Biden’s time as Vice President under Barack Obama. This in turn means that the documents had been in Biden’s allegedly illegal possession for at least seven years.
Joe Biden in need of explanation: More secret documents surfaced
The matter is becoming increasingly uncomfortable for the incumbent US President. Biden’s lawyer tried to downplay the matter. It was a “small amount of documents” that had been found. They work closely with the authorities and have given them “unrestricted access”. Biden himself emphasized on Thursday that he was “fully cooperating” with the Justice Department. “I think you’ll see there’s nothing there,” he said when asked by reporters at an appointment in California.
But the 80-year-old US President was apparently wrong. It’s long gone Scandal surrounding classified documents owned by Biden become political. Attorney General Merrick Garland had appointed a special prosecutor to the case. This will now examine to what extent Biden has made himself punishable. In the United States, taking confidential government documents home after leaving is illegal. All secret documents must be handed over to the responsible national archive after the end of the office.
Joe Biden and the secret documents: scandal reminiscent of Donald Trump
were first time Secret documents owned by Joe Biden surfaced on November 2 last year. Particularly unpleasant for the incumbent president: the case is reminiscent of Donald Trump. After leaving the White House, the former US President also took secret documents with him to Mar-a-Lago, his home in the US state of Florida. The FBI conducted a raid that democrats described Trump’s behavior as irresponsible and dangerous to the state. Biden also criticized his predecessor – although at that point he had been storing secret documents in his private home for a long time. (red/dpa)
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