Classified Documents Found at Former Biden Office, Drawing Comparisons to Trump
The Justice Department is reviewing the circumstances surrounding the discovery of classified documents by personal lawyers for President Joe Biden inside his former office in November. The White House publicly acknowledged the federal review this week.
In this story, we will review what we currently know about the documents, as well as how this situation compares to the FBI’s recovery of highly classified documents at former President Donald Trump’s private club and residence in Palm Beach, Florida. We also address Trump’s unsupported claims that China “saw” Biden’s documents and funded the Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement, where Biden’s office was located.
The Biden Documents
In a statement issued to reporters, Richard Sauber, special counsel to the president, said Biden’s attorneys found “a small number” of documents with classified markings “in a locked closet” on Nov. 2, when the lawyers were packing up the office that Biden “periodically used” at the Penn Biden Center in Washington, D.C. The University of Pennsylvania-affiliated think tank was established in 2017, after Biden was no longer vice president, and its offices opened in February 2018, about a year before Biden took a to run for president.
