Federal officials searched the Wilmington, Delaware mansion of President Joe Biden on Friday and came away with six more items that had classified markings on them, some of them dating back to Biden’s service in the U.S. Senate, and some from the time he was Vice President under President Barack Obama. Biden left the Senate in 2009 and was Vice President from 2009 to 2017.
Bob Bauer, the president’s personal attorney, said in a statement that investigators spent 13 hours in the Biden home in what he described as a consensual agreement to search the premises.
“Yesterday, DOJ completed a thorough search of all the materials in the President’s Wilmington home. It began at approximately 9:45 AM and concluded at around 10:30 PM and covered all working, living and storage spaces in the home,” Bauer said.
“DOJ took possession of materials it deemed within the scope of its inquiry, including six items consisting of documents with classification markings and surrounding materials, some of which were from the President’s service in the Senate and some of which were from his tenure as Vice President. DOJ also took for further review personally handwritten notes from the vice-presidential years,” Bauer said.
Since October, four tranches of about 20 classified government documents have been found in Biden’s Wilmington mansion and in his former office at the Penn Biden Center in Washington, D.C. The Department of Justice has since appointed former U.S. attorney Robert Hur to investigate how the documents got there and whether there were laws broken. President Biden said last week that, “You’re going to find there’s nothing there.”
Of the second set of documents found earlier in his home garage next to his Corvette, Biden told reporters, “By the way, my Corvette’s in a locked garage. So it’s not like they were sitting out in the street.”
