US President Joe Biden said on Tuesday he was surprised to find classified documents from an office he used even before his presidency. according to his report At a joint press conference with the Mexican and Canadian leaders.
The president promised “full” cooperation with the investigation and hoped it would be concluded soon. He also said he takes handling confidential documents very seriously and does not know what is in the documents his lawyers found in his private office, where he worked from 2017 to 2020.
The case was first reported by US media on Monday evening and Tuesday morning, Hungarian time. According to the news published so far, there are about ten files that have been stored in a locked cabinet so far, he writes BBC. The documents were discovered in the office on November 2 of last year, just before the midterm elections. Biden’s lawyers promptly turned them over to the appropriate National Archives.
“They found documents in a box in a locked file cabinet or at least in a closet, and as soon as they noticed that there were secret documents among them, they immediately did what was necessary: they called the archives” the president who first spoke on this matter. Reuters quoted Biden, who also said his attorneys had indicated he was not interested in the contents: “I learned about this and I was surprised to hear that official documents were put in that office, but I don’t know what they contain.” from documents.
According to information of an American newspaper published on Tuesday evening, Hungarian time, among the documents found were classified documents on Ukraine, Iran and Great Britain. Republican Representative Mike Turner says there may be suspicions that Biden broke the law. Elise Stefanik, also a right-wing actress who supports former President Donald Trump, says the case raises national security issues.
“I wonder when the FBI is going to raid the president’s homes, or maybe the White House?” – Former President Donald Trump, who is under investigation in a similar case, responded to the news. But the case is more serious in that the former US president kept thousands of documents, including many classified, secret and top secret documents, some of which may have contained nuclear secrets. All of this was revealed after the FBI conducted a search of Trump’s estate in Florida. In addition, the former president was not even going to return the documents despite the archive’s request, and eventually handed over 15 boxes of documents to the archive, which contained more than 100 classified documents, Reuters reports.
