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"Lied multiple times" - Biden under pressure over more secret documents

2023-01-22T08:55:39.401Z


Joe Biden's anger over classified documents he took home just got worse. Joe Biden's anger over classified documents he took home just got worse. Scandal widens: More secret documents found on Joe Biden Criticism of Biden: Leading Republicans and Donald Trump are making serious allegations against Joe Biden Joe Biden and the secret documents: All developments and news about the scandal in the USA in our newsticker. +++ 8.45 a.m .: For the Republicans, finding more se


Joe Biden's anger over classified documents he took home just got worse.

  • Scandal widens:

    More secret documents found on Joe Biden

  • Criticism of Biden:

    Leading Republicans and Donald Trump are making serious allegations against Joe Biden

  • Joe Biden and the secret documents:

    All developments and news about the scandal in the USA in our newsticker.

+++ 8.45 a.m .:

For the Republicans, finding more secret documents at 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 message:

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.

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The discovery of further secret documents in his private home means that Joe Biden is increasingly unable to explain himself.

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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.

The scandal surrounding secret documents owned by Biden has long since become a political issue.

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

Secret documents owned by Joe Biden appeared for the first time 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 carried out a raid, the 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.

(dil/dpa)

List of rubrics: © MANDEL NGAN/AFP

Source: merkur

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