Classified documents found by president’s personal lawyers while closing out office at UPenn’s Biden Center for Diplomacy
The documents were found by Biden’s personal lawyers at the start of November when they closed out office space at the University of Pennsylvania’s Biden Center for Diplomacy, a thinktank where he was an honorary professor until 2019.
“The White House is cooperating with the National Archives and the Department of Justice regarding the discovery of what appear to be Obama-Biden admin records, including a small number of documents with classified markings,” the White House counsel’s office said in a statement. Trump seized on the news of the discovery, earlier reported by CBS News, writing on his social media website Truth Social: “When is the FBI going to raid the many houses ofThe last part of the former president’s post appeared to draw a parallel between the two cases, referencing his disputed claim that the documents at Mar-a-Lago had been declassified, though no such evidence has publicly emerged and his lawyers have not repeated that in court.
The presence of highly-sensitive documents prompted the National Archives to make a referral to the justice department, which developed evidence that Trump had not fully complied with a grand jury subpoena from May demanding the return of any documents with classified markings.
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