More classified documents found in Biden's garage "next to his Corvette".

Created: 01/12/2023, 17:15

By: Christian Stör

The scandal surrounding classified documents owned by Joe Biden is spreading.

Other documents were discovered in the possession of the US President.

Update from 5:15 p.m .:

More secret documents owned by Joe Biden have surfaced.

This was announced by the Office of the US President.

Accordingly, a "small number of additional documents" with classified information markings were found in the garage of Biden's home in Wilmington, Delaware.

These documents are said to be documents from his time as Vice President.

Joe Biden himself was confronted with the finds in a press round on Thursday morning (local time).

According to the news channel CNN, a reporter asked what he was thinking about keeping secret documents "next to his Corvette".

Biden replied, "My Corvette is in a locked garage.

It's not like she's just standing on the street."

More secret documents owned by Joe Biden discovered

Initial reporting of January 12, 2022:

Washington, DC – US President Joe Biden is coming under increasing pressure.

After the discovery of secret documents in a former private office of Biden, further government documents are said to have been found.

Biden employees discovered them while searching a second location, several US media reported, citing unnamed sources.

According to the TV broadcaster

, these are again secret documents, but the content and the exact location and number of documents are still unclear.

Only on Monday (January 9) did it become public that Biden had kept secret documents from his time as US Vice President Barack Obama in his private offices in the Penn Biden Center in the capital.

Biden used the premises after he left the office of vice president in 2017 until about 2020, the White House said.

US President Joe Biden offers Republicans new fodder for attacks.

© Susan Walsh/AP/dpa

Trump had similar problems: Secret documents found again at Biden

The documents are reported to be at least 10 top-secret papers, some of them top-secret.

Biden said he was "surprised to learn of their existence."

He does not know who brought the documents there or what they contained.

At the same time, he promised "full cooperation" in the investigations.

The documents were immediately handed over to the National Archives.

The situation is politically extremely sensitive for Biden, as former US President Donald Trump triggered a serious scandal in the US in a similar case in the summer of 2022.

At that time, the FBI searched his property in Florida and confiscated hundreds of secret documents.

Biden then criticized Trump.

Joe Biden under pressure over classified documents: Republican food

The second discovery of secret documents now offers the Republicans new fodder in their attacks against Biden.

First and foremost was Donald Trump himself, who happily shared the reports on the new find on his social media network Truth Social.

James Comer saw a double standard on the part of the Democrats: "The FBI searched the home of former President Trump (...) There is a special investigator investigating," said the Republican chairman of the important Committee on Oversight and Reforms on

.

"We now have two different locations where Joe Biden had classified documents, but nothing happened."

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Josh Hawley, a Republican Senator from Missouri and a staunch Trump defender, responded to the revelation with a terse tweet: "Special Counsel."

So far, Trump's case has been classified as legally more serious than Biden's.

However, it is questionable whether this will remain the case after the renewed discovery.

(cs/dpa)